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Hi everybody! This is my first post and I just wanted to explain my situation with rush. Let me start off by saying that not getting into the sorority of your dreams is one of the most heartbreaking experiences in the world. I really wanted to get into a certain sorority at the University of Florida...now granted I made this house my favorite after round 2, so I gave each house an equal chance. I won't go into detail but after much excitement about joining a sorority, and many more rounds and interviews, I was dropped from recruitment! Needless to say I was heartbroken...I just couldn't figure out what I had done wrong. I literally thought about it night and day. Wondering, what could I have done that was so horrible...Why did they all hate me so much? What made me good enough to survive so many rounds to now be not good enough to be a sister. I went through a week of hell with no sleep and was the nicest person I could be, and it still wasn't good enough. Now you are all probably thinking, oh great, she's a greek hater now. BUT I'M NOT. My best friend got into the house I wanted, and I've tried so hard to be happy for her as she meets her new sisters, but sometimes it's so hard to meet them and wonder if they were the one who decided that I wasn't good enough to be a sister. But I'm trying, for her and for myself, to let go of the hurt and the hard feelings. I realize that it's not just one girl who decides and that the process it very complicated ...but it's so hard for me to understand how the people who made you think greek life was the greatest thing in the world, the very people who made greek life important to you in the first place, to be the same people who take it all away from you! It just seems so cold. It's like sisterhood was right within my grasp...and then I was dropped. But to answer you're question about this making me bitter...it hasn't. I have so much respect for people in sororities, for them and the work they do in the community. I feel that this process is not entirely their fault and it's like we're all victims of too many girls wanting to Go Greek...which is sort of a catch 22 isn't it? In order for sororities to survive, they must have this interest from PNM's. But in order for the PNM's to have a better chance of getting in, they hope that not a lot of people will rush.
On a cheerier note, sorry for all the gloom and doom, I just saw this thread and felt that you all should get an honest answer from and experinced reject, I am still interested in Going Greek. Once you get past all the horribleness of rush, I really like the idea of sisterhood! I am hoping to become a part of the Delta Zeta colonization here at UF. It all starts on September 24th...that is the open house(since I already saw the info presentation during rush this is the first meeting I need to attend). Any advice since things obviously didn't work out so well last time? DO you think I am crazy for trying to Go Greek again after being rejected?
Hopefully future Greek Love and all of mine~ Jenn
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