Another Fall '07 Recruitment Thread---Midwestern University

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Finally an update from me! Thanks so much for being so understanding!

So Saturday morning rolls around I get up really early and make myself pretty. Awesome, it's House Tour Day number one and I'm so pumped! I put on my dark wash skinny jean, wine colored suede-toe flats, a white button-down(like the ones at banana republic), camel cardigan, and pearls( I know, Jeans, but that's pretty standard here) and bounced out the door.

I think someone asked before if we had houses or dorm suites or what...All our sororities have houses. So I join up with my three friends doing recruitment with me, and we walk to "Greek Row" (not an actual Greek Row, just a street with most of the houses on it.) We split up and I walk down to my group. Our Gamma Chi's split us into 2 sections, and each one handled one. So our Gamma Chi's call us over to them one by one to hand us our schedules, so that we could look at it with them and they could make sure we were ok.
Which I have to say, I loved my Gamma Chi's so much! They were so supportive and the way they did schedules was just an example of that. I don't think anyone in our group dropped midway through recruitment!

Anyway I get my schedule and I look at it and....there are 6 houses on it. Ok, sweet. I mean that's good right, I still had half the houses? And I felt good, except this one girl in my group was like "oh, I got all 9...except there's one i really don't want. What's with that?" and I was like...uh..ok. She kinda made me feel bad...you know until the end when she was cut from everywhere.

So my schedule was this:
Alice Keppel
Bessie Blount
Camilla Parker Bowles
Maria WalewskaMadame De Pompadour
Nell Gwynne

Like I (think) I mentioned before, we use partially structured recruitment, so you can kinda go house to house as you want, so that if you're not that into a house you can go there first and stay for a polite period, then say "Well, Thank-you so much, but ya'll were my first house and I have to get going" or something.

So I talked to my GX's and told them that I was going to try and do all six in one day(which would give me Sunday off), so i set off to my first house, Nell Gwynne! Which in hindsight, I really should have planned my route better, i was up and down the row all day, like an idiot.

Nell Gwynne- Gee, I liked them! I walked in right away (The house can only have so many PNM in it at a time, if they're at capacity you have to wait outside with the GX's who are stationed at that house) and the recruitment chair and president were standing there in dresses in the groups colors, so nice! So I get paired up with this girl, who turns out to be a junior, and we start off on our house tour. This house had just remodeled so they were really excited about that. In each room they had boards about their group and whatnot, so we go into one of the bedrooms, and we end up in there talking for like 10 minutes...about food. It was really funny and made me really comfortable. So after the tour, we went downstairs to chitchat, but I didn't really stay that long, 'cause I had other houses to get to! But after I walked out the door, I started worrying that I hadn't stayed long enough, what if they didn't realize I liked them...that would have been a tragedy, i loved them so much!

Next up, Alice Keppel- So I can't say I was blown out of the water by this one...but it's not like I didn't know how laid back they were, so not a big shocker. I liked their boards and everything...but my guide wasn't really that talkative and I didn't feel connected to anyone until I went into the room where my teacher's daughter was in charge of the board...but you know that doesn't really count; We're from a small town and had known eachother for years! Also, their basement creeped me out a bit...dark wood paneling reminded me of...1970's swingers or something.

Maria Walewska- Aww...their house just added to how much I liked them! It was so cute and had historical significance for the town...and did i mention cute? I got paired with the same girl as from Open houses initially, then after the tour was over we sat down to talk and they bumped around. This, however, was one thing I didn't like. the way they bumped was super obvious...but when the girl who was moving on did a recap for the the new rusher, they made sure not to repeat topics, which was really nice, like they were really paying attention .

Oops. Time for work. I guess i'll have to finish the other 3 later. Hope ya'll enjoy!