A Very Sunny Recruitment.

[SoCalGreek11]

Ok so this is a very late post and recruitment has come and gone, but i loved reading other people's stories and I thought I should share mine. I just recently transferred from a Southern California Community College to a GIANT University and I found it very hard to make friends, despite being surrounded by people. My mother, my father, and my grandfather were all greek so obviously when I transferred my parents assumed I was going to go greek as well, and it was a great opportunity to meet people. My mother had spent the entire summer going over what to say or do at recruitment and how to dress (classy and polished), so I was ready and prepared to rush.

There are 11 NPH sororities on campus, and I thought I'd stick with my California Theme:
Palm Tree
Sunglasses
Bikini
Wave
Surfboard
Sand Crab
Sand
Sunshine
Sailboat
Flip Flops
Towel

I apologize if I got a little unimaginative with the names.
So First Day rolls around and we visit all 11 houses for 15 minutes. It was super stressful, but from looking around campus i had seen which houses I wanted to be it. My mother was a towel so I was really hoping to do well there.

1. First was Sunshine. The girls were absolutely beautiful and they were so friendly. They really did well with recruitment. Both the girl and I had matching sandals so we talked about shopping for a little bit and then got through all the basic questions. I talked to three girls there, and each girl never repeated the same question and the conversation flowed so well. It was a great start to recruitment.
2.Next was Palm Tree. Now I had gotten a really good recommendation from there and I was looking forward to meeting them, but I was so disappointed. Every single girl in there with the exception for a few was blonde and tanned and so done up I felt like walking through a doll exhibit. The conversation was so forced it seemed fake and the girls I talked to did not seem interested to talk to me at all. I felt like I was just being passed off from one to other, and I wasn't the only one who felt that way. My whole recruitment group walked out of there unhappy.
3. Surfboard- I didn't know what to say about these girls. They were a fairly new chapter so they were very small. I didn't click with the first girl but the second girl was so funny! I didn't feel at home yet but I liked them.
4. Sailboat- Now my roommate was an ex-sailboat and I loved her. She is very funny and she was excited for me to go through recruitment. She loved being greek but she couldn't afford it. The girl I talked to was super nice and I loved all the things she was getting to do because of her sorority. I couldn't wait to go back there.
5.Sunglasses- The girls were a little awkward, but hey, i'm awkward too so it felt right. I got a little irritated because the second girl I talked to kept asking me questions about the dorms but I was a junior so I didn't have an answer for them and politely reminded her I was an upper classmen. Overall, funny and somewhere I could fit in.
6.Sand- They were a super small group so we had to go 2pnms for every 1 active. She was super nervous and it was hard to connect to the girl because there were three of us. Not many people wanted to go back to them because they were just so excited they made us uncomfortable.
7. Sand Crab- They were some of the nicest girls on the planet and the girl i talked to had my major. They were just a very small house and look like they were in danger of closing. I didn't see myself as one but they were just so kind that I wouldn't mind seeing them again.
8. Towel- I was so excited to see this house, not only because they were my legacy house but because I saw them around campus and they were genuinely nice. The girls were beautiful, they had a high gpa, and I was hooked. But when I started talking to the girls I had seen that I had nothing in common with them. They were still friendly.
9.Bikini- Everyone was excited to go to this house. I knew someone in the house and she seemed very nice. However, the girl I talked to stated how close the house is (which I love) but that she only hangs out with them. It made the other houses seem like second class, and I didn't like that.
10. Wave- by now I had been getting tired and i think it showed. It was 8:30 pm and I had been there all day. The girl I talked to was a transfer from the other state school so she didn't have a lot to say as far as the sorority because she had only been there for a few weeks.
11. Flip Flops- I was so tired that I didn't want to go to the last house. But the girl I got to talk to was exactly like me. She was a transfer student from southern california too, and she had a very blunt and witty personality like mine. We talked about everything from santa monica to classes. I fell in love with her and it made me excited to go back the next day.

I put these as my top houses:
Flip Flops
Wave
Bikini
Towel
Sand Crab
Sunglasses
Surfboard
Sunshine
Sailboat

Bottom:
Sand
Palm Tree