Fraternity Rush - Texas school style

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OK, so I've gotten some pm's about this so somebody is reading..

I guess with the excitement of sorority rush at the SEC schools, this is kind of back burner.

Anyway, summer rushing begins.

The first thing he got invited to was an Astros Game with 2 other rushees and the rush captains for Boon. The seats were in the Diamond Section, which for those who don't know, is swanky. This was very impressive to my son who is a huge Astros fan. He had a great time and really got to know the guys. They must have liked him because the invited him to stay with them for orientation, which is a week long.

When he went up for orientation, the Boons that he was staying with encouraged him to go to other fraternity events so that he could tell what he wanted to do. I'm sure they knew that he was pretty set on going Boon, so they weren't taking much of a chance.

He was wined and dined by a number of other fraternities and went to many "late nights" (each fraternity has parties during all of the orientations, this way they can meet the guys as they come to college town, and because many kids have to go to summer school, there is something going on all the time) He also played a round of golf with one group that he ended up really liking, I'll call them Flounder. He thought that if things didn't work out with Boon, he might go Flounder.

Back home, he started getting calls to come to events back in college town, like foam parties and bar tabs, so when he could, he would drive back. I got a little sick of all the trips back and forth, but you do what you've got to do, I guess

There were also events that were planned away from college town, like ranch parties and what I guess you'd call ball game weekends. These are weekend long events, the ranch parties are self explanatory, the ball game things were that a fraternity rented hotel rooms and had tickets for all the rushees and it was a weekend long party. These were held by other fraternities, Flounder, Chip, and Bluto (sorry had to get that in there, but it in no way reflects on the fraternity)

These were all fun, but what my son looked forward to the most was the Boon New Orleans trip. More on that later.