New to the forum

I_Love_Penguins · #1 01-31-2006, 12:44 PM

Hi everyone! I've been reading GC for about a month or two now, ever since I decided I had some interest in rushing this semester. I came across this site in the Yahoo directory, decided to check it out, and BAM! I was hooked. Haha.

Well to tell you a little bit about myself, I'm Ali. I'm a second semester sophomore at a state school in Pennsylvania...it has about 8,000 students give or take a few. I'm a communications major...wanted to go into journalism when I first came here, but now I'm looking more into advertising or public relations, specifically in the field of sports marketing.

I consider myself to be very open minded towards meeting new people, but if someone honestly hurts my feelings or makes me angry in actions or words, I have a hard time communicating with that person from that point on. However as long as you are nice to me, I will treat you nice too, even if we aren't best friends. I like to do community service...it's just a shame that I don't have a lot of time to do it due to my full class schedule and work and campus activites. On my campus, I am involved with campus ministry, I am assistant sports editor of the student newspaper, and I sing in the concert choir. I spent three semesters in the women's choir, but this semester I am not doing that due to the fact that some drama came up and I needed a break.

I decided to rush because I met a sorority girl in my one class last semester (obviously I'm not going to say which GLO she is a member of), and she was not what I pictured sorority girls to be like. I used to think sorority girls were only into drinking and partying and hanging out with fraternity boys all the time, but that's not the case. I looked into the websites of different sororities, I came to be amazed at their ideas of sisterhood and was also very interested in the philanthropy aspect. I no longer have the stereotype I did of sorority girls and I'm glad to see sororities are not all that I thought they were...which is a very good thing!

Last night was the first night of rush here where we met our Rho Chis. I was nervous but everything went pretty well. However, I'll go to Recuritment Stories and post a bit about my experience so you girls can keep up with me if you desire.

P.S. I have an idea of which GLO I want here, but of course, I am going to keep an open mind! I am excited/nervous for tonight's event, but I'll keep everyone posted. Can't wait to get further involved in the discussion here! You girls seem great!

adpiucf · #2 01-31-2006, 12:58 PM

Welcome to Greek Chat and best wishes at recruitment!

AlphaFrog · #3 01-31-2006, 01:12 PM

Ok, for the sake of not hurting your rush, wait until it's over to post any more. If I were you, I would not post ANYTHING else (including chit-chat, etc.). You've already revealed exactly who you are and what school you go to, and if someone from that school posts on here, you don't want to say/do ANYTHING that reveals your prefs, or anything that could get you cut. We'd LOVE to here your rush story, but wait until after to post.

33girl · #4 01-31-2006, 01:52 PM

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Originally posted by AlphaFrog
Ok, for the sake of not hurting your rush, wait until it's over to post any more. If I were you, I would not post ANYTHING else (including chit-chat, etc.). You've already revealed exactly who you are and what school you go to, and if someone from that school posts on here, you don't want to say/do ANYTHING that reveals your prefs, or anything that could get you cut. We'd LOVE to here your rush story, but wait until after to post.

Completely agree, since there are several Bloomsburg people on here, and lots of people from PA in general. You can give us your rush story after rush is over.

honeychile · #5 01-31-2006, 02:36 PM

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Originally posted by 33girl
Completely agree, since there are several Bloomsburg people on here, and lots of people from PA in general. You can give us your rush story after rush is over.

*nods head*

It's not that we don't want to hear your story - we really DO! We just don't want to hurt your chances with the sorority of your choice.

I_Love_Penguins · #6 01-31-2006, 04:36 PM

OK. This is the last post I make before I go back into lurkerdom until after my recuritment. I promise. Just wanted to say thanks for your help...and I'm sorry if I gave away TOO much information. I tried to be as limited as I could, I guess I just didn't do a good job.

So thanks for welcoming me/helping me out and I'll see everyone back here in a week after rush!

adpiucf · #7 01-31-2006, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by I_Love_Penguins
OK. This is the last post I make before I go back into lurkerdom until after my recuritment. I promise. Just wanted to say thanks for your help...and I'm sorry if I gave away TOO much information. I tried to be as limited as I could, I guess I just didn't do a good job.

So thanks for welcoming me/helping me out and I'll see everyone back here in a week after rush!

It's not that you gave away too much-- we just want to make sure the bit of personal information you gave isn't just ENOUGH to determine who you are! The last thing we want is for you to be sabotaged!!!

We're all really excited for you to go through recruitment and can't wait to hear about your experience next week!

I_Love_Penguins · #8 01-31-2006, 05:38 PM

OK thanks. Haha. I guess this is what happens when I get excited/nervous about everything I'm going through.

FSUZeta · #9 01-31-2006, 08:52 PM

good luck to you!!

honeychile · #10 01-31-2006, 10:02 PM

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