Even while practicing pref I had a hard time not crying, but I'm going to do my best not to--mainly it'll be tough this year b/c there are so many people leaving in May (myself included!); I'm not saying we should suppress emotion and make pref cold/unfeeling, just try to get the majority of stuff out of our systems first. Even though I don't want to stereotype engineering students, it does seem like in general the girls at my school are not the emotional touchy feely kind (95% of student population are engineering majors), so I think that that relates back to trying not to be super emotional--it just ends up coming off as cheesy/awkward rather than sweet or something. If there are tears in all the right places and it's touching then no problem; I think the no crying "rule" is partly tradition, but I don't think it's ever hurt my chapter because we have consistently topped the other houses in recruitment for years and years.
So I guess part of it is the general "lay of the land" concerning the kinds of girls going through recruitment, too. UMR is not a very emotional girly place, lots of tomboys and women who never dreamed they'd join a sorority... I think a lot of us didn't really get "into" sisterhood until after joining and so being emotional about it was something that came with time--something that can seem weird to incoming girls who were once in our shoes. This year I feel like the girls are AWESOME and I have a feeling that even if we all started crying they'd cry with us, they've been fitting in so well with us--I swear I'm LOVING recruitment so far because the new girls are SO neat and interesting and fun people!
I can't wait for BID DAY (4 something pm tomorrow!!) so I know who my new sisters are!!!!!!!
greek love,
april
