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Okay, just back from Lincoln this afternoon, and had an awesome weekend!
It was a great for me just to be back with all my bros for some partying and having fun, as well as see some other people that I've missed.
The rush event on Saturday was a huge success, and was extremely well attended. I think that we probably had 15-20 guys come through along with their parents.
The big news was that after this rush event we went from having 1 guy signed to having 4! The kid I mentioned ealier whose older sister (a Gamma Phi) is engaged to a guy in Farmhouse turned in his bid card on Friday. We signed another Lincoln guy (from the same HS as the first) and a guy from Aberdeen SD.
I'm really excited by the kid from SD. I met him at the Sioux Falls rush event (he was the quiet one), and talked to him a bit there. Saturday, I ate lunch with him and his mom. Myself and our former president's mom talked with them and it was fun to see the pledge's mom get excited about the house. She is an Alpha Phi and so you could tell she had her expectations from her own experience, but as the conversation kept going she just started smiling more and more.
In addition to the 2 guys signed, we also got verbal commits from 3 others. I didn't talk to any of those guys but it wasn't really necessary.
We also handed out bid cards to a couple more guys. One guy I really got to see how important having a Parent's day can be.
This rushee is down to deciding between us and one other house, he, his mom and his 9 year-old sister came to our event, and I think that it probably secured him as a member of our house. I was so impressed by our rush chairs as well, because of the way they talked to his mom and his little sister. I think that the rushee and his sister are very close, and our rush chairs could have easily ignored her, but they talked to her almost as much as they talked to the rushee (who we've seen for a while now). It was great seeing them talk to her about school and fourth grade and homework and stuff like that. Really, I'm just proud to be brothers with the guys we picked as rush chairs for being such great, friendly guys. The rushee's mother was also really impressed with how clean our house was and the fact that we invited the parent's over to see it, as well as having our own parents come and help with rush. I really think that if this rushee signs with us it will be because we won over the people that are important to him, by doing so it probably was the thing that made us different.
Other news: The rushee with the not so hot rush app was discussed at length during our Summer Chapter meeting and we've decided to extend him a bid.
We also discussed a lot of other rushees and decided not to give bids out for certain guys for various reasons. Some are unfortunate, some simply because we don't think that we're right for the rushee due to circumstance or situations. One rushee is a victim of being from the same HS as a lot of other stud rushees that are all very interested in us, and unfortunately this kid while he has a solid app is not as good as those other guys. Another guy is a sophomore and would be a live out, which is something that makes everyone leary. It's compounded by the fact that he's in the most intensive program on campus and we don't feel that he'll be around enough, so we're going to reccomend that he look into Pike b/c they don't have a house and he would be better able to meet their expectations. Honestly, we have no qualms in giving reccomendations to other houses when it's certain that it would be a better fit for everyone.
Finally, the best part of the weekend was getting to party with two of our new pledges (the Lincoln guys). Now that they've signed they can come party with us all summer. Had a great time with them last night and had the hangover this morning to prove it!
That's all for now, we're starting to reap what we've sown, and this maybe by the end of this week we'll have 10 signees or more if we're lucky!
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