An Honest & Tough Fraternity Recruitment

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So here I was back in formal recruitment, but feeling much more secure this time around. I had peace of mind that there was no way it could be worse than last time around. For some reason I can't remember the order of the houses I went in but the format and typical responses from the fraternity were much the same.

Billy Ray Cyrus once again presented a monologue from the drunk crippled guy and nothing beyond that.

Randy Travis ignored everyone that walked in the room as usual.

Blake Shelton decided this time to lecture us about STD's and how to contract them, even passing out fliers about herpes.

Toby Keith jumped around shouting showing us wild and crazy slideshows. One guy even said to the guy next to me, "Dude...two girls, same time!"

The others were much the same as last year, but one thing confused me. The George Straits, who had not contacted me all year, suddenly acted like they were so happy to see me and how they didn't know I was going through recruitment again. I smiled and carried on the conversation, but inside I couldn't believe they were telling me this. I had figured they just lost interest me and were pursuing other guys in rush, it wasn't that I held any bad feelings but I thought I deserved to get some more time to hang out with them during the summer. I still liked the George Straits and thought in some ways I was a lot like them, but in my mind it would be sort of senseless to go way out on a limb and try to receive a bid from them during formal rush after having no contact all summer.

The other houses gave much the same presentations last year whether it be pretty effortful such as Brad Paisley or Garth Brooks, whose president and vice president both came to talk to me at the same (I could tell they were really wanting me at this point), or not much at all as Alan Jackson or Tim McGraw.

I left formal rush pretty exhausted as this year was even hotter than last. I signed my card quickly and left. I thought I had everything in order for the next day, even though I had a Monday night class and would only be able to attend the second half of Day 2 of formal rush.