Here's the big list of who's who (sorry for the delay - this all took me awhile to type!):
Alpha Chi Omega - Clancy Wiggum
Alpha Gamma Delta - Sideshow Bob
Alpha Omicron Pi - Moe Szyslak
Alpha Phi - Lenny Leonard
Alpha Xi Delta - Disco Stu
Chi Omega - Groundskeeper Willie
Delta Gamma - Carl Carlson
Gamma Phi Beta - Milhouse VanHouten
Kappa Alpha Theta - Mayor Quimby
Kappa Delta - Troy McClure
Kappa Kappa Gamma - Waylon Smithers
Phi Mu - Barney Gumble
Pi Beta Phi - Artie Ziff
Sigma Delta Tau - Monty Burns
Sigma Kappa - Nelson Muntz
Zeta Tau Alpha - Ned Flanders
Additional info...
As you might recall,
Laura (Steph's roommate, and one of my first friends on my floor) was a member of Sideshow Bob/Alpha Gamma Delta. I was having so much fun as a pledge that she really started to realize what she was missing out on. I encouraged her to reach out to the chapter, and she ended up getting involved with the house again. (She had never officially deactivated - just went home for the summer and never went over to the house once she came back to school in the Fall.) I'm sure she had to work hard and probably pay some fines for missing all of rush...I was a pledge so I wasn't privvy to that info. But she ended up being a great sister and was very involved with the chapter up until the day she graduated. (And she's still active as an alumnae member.) If I hadn't pledged Alpha Gam, I honestly don't think she ever would have gotten involved with the house again - she probably would have continued to live with/hang out with Steph instead, not realizing that her sisters would have given her a second chance.
Speaking of
Steph...she never did go through rush or join any sorority. Seems kind of sad to me - she was a bright, attractive girl with a lot to offer. If she had kept an open mind and not developed such a bad attitude about sororities, she could have been a good, productive member of almost any sorority on campus! I don't think she really cared for the fact that Laura became an involved sister again because of me. Not that I cared too much about what she thought at that point - her negative attitude almost cost Laura her sorority experience, and it affected my own rush experience as well. If Steph didn't like it that Laura and I were both in the same house and...gasp...actually
enjoyed it, too bad for her.
Suzy had been disappointed at being cut by her roommate's sorority right before Preference (Carl Carlson/Delta Gamma). But, she ended up loving her experience in Gamma Phi Beta/Milhouse VanHouten.
I think I mentioned in the thread that
Gina - my friend from home who talked me into rushing to begin with - ended up pledging Delta Delta Delta at her school. Her first choice, and she loved it!
Regarding
Mayor Quimby (Kappa Alpha Theta)...I began to realize after awhile that the connection I thought I felt with that house was actually a primarily a connection I felt with Debbie (the girl who rushed me there). She and I bumped into each other occasionally during college, and she did tell me that I was her rush crush...she was hoping to take me as a little sister. When she found out I dropped out of rush, she had hoped I'd go through again as a sophomore and still end up in her house. But, it all worked out for the best - although I still liked Theta, you can't join a sorority just for one person. As a group, I fit in better with my own chapter.
So....regardless of all the twists and turns along the way, I still ended up where I belonged. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had stuck with rush - which 3 houses would I have Preferenced? What is it like to go through Preference? Would I have still ended up an Alpha Gam? But, I have no complaints - 15 years later, I'm still an involved alumnae member, so obviously things worked out well enough.
Hybrid Mode
