Stories about rush gone wrong but you ended up in a great place

[carnation]

Hey everybody--

Many of you have told this kind of story on GC...stories in which your formal rush went awry but you ended up in an incredible sisterhood later. BlazerCheer really needs to hear encouraging stories like this right now.

I'm a prime example...I dropped out of rush the first time and ended up in my wonderful Pi Beta Phi after a second formal rush. The remaining days of that first rush aren't so great to remember, though...I had to wait out the rest of rush in the rush dorm while I watched happy girls going off to their theme, then pref parties all dressed up. Coming home late one evening, I passed one sorority house and could see all the girls going in for prefs and it looked so exciting...the next day I was visiting my grandmother and got caught in traffic right in front of where the girls were getting bids. It was so horrible.

BlazerCheer will have to live this nightmare in the next 2 days. Cheerleading practice starts on Saturday; in the meantime, she has to stay in the rush dorm and watch excited PNMs leave this evening for prefs, then tomorrow to get bids. Many, many women have dropped out of rush, including the other cheerleader who was rushing, but they've all gone home until classes start.

I told my daughter my story and how it ended up so happily and she knows how wonderful my sorority experience has been these 30 years. In the meantime, she really needs to hear stories with happy endings of pledging later. Can you help her?