My Spring 07 Recruitment...Naive girl in for the shock of her life!

[MissyM]

Hi all!

I've been lurking GC boards forever and I mostly have spent time reading many many recruitment stories. I think they are so fascinating and really describe the many emotions so many of us encounter during the crazy week. Big school, small school, legacy, non-legacy, rushing as a freshman or not, recently, or decades ago, we've been through it and have a story to tell. Sounds kind of corny but it really intrigues me.

I didn't know if I wanted to share my story or not but I finally have decided to. I did not create a new user name because I've really only posted once or twice identifying myself and didn't think it was worth registering another name. So, if you've seen me post, just pretend you never saw it and please try not to look at the others! Is this a bad idea though? I'm just trying to save myself some trouble.

Okay, so I rushed in the spring of 2007 as a freshman at my very large university with a very active Greek life. I'm from New England but my school was in a different part of the country and it was absolute culture shock! Perfect strangers talked to me in my dorm elevator! Everyone thought I had a funny accent (what! I never heard it before!) However, I had my best friend from a high school summer program at college with me. I'll call her Katie. She lived about 4 hours away from school so I had a second home kind of nearby. We basically were inseperable the previous fall but this was good because we formed a really nice group of girlfriends that we hung out with- a lot were out-of state like me. My floor had very nice girls but they were kind of clique-y.

Almost all my friends decided to go through rush. We all had that mentality of "oh, let's just try it and see". But truthfully, I couldn't imagine myself not being in one. I know myself and I thrive on support and can sometimes need a "push" to be motivated to do things. I had walked by all the beautiful houses on campus that fall and wanted so badly to be able to return after classes to one of them in my next years. My parents knew nothing about being Greek. They went to small liberal art schools with no Greek life and my brother was active in a fraternity for only a year before deactivating.

Here's the hard part of trying to tell my story. There were a few sororities on campus where it was almost expected I'd end up. I can't really explain much without giving a lot away but I'll explain fully at the end, because I think it's kind of interesting and could be helpful for other PNMs. But I want to keep the beginning fun for you guys!

Wow, I've rambled. Can't wait to continue on with my story!