identical twins, different universities, overlapping recruitments...

[UGAalum94]

OP, I think you may have just thrown down the gauntlet in what might become a long digression, but I want to say this: you really should take a look at any book from the Sweet Valley High series. I think that you would completely understand a lot of what was said about the thread.

[Katmandu]

I am truly sorry if your father died tragically in an awful accident. Losing a parent at a young age is an extremely difficult and wrenching event.

Speaking only for myself, I am not jealous or "snarky" because you are beautiful or successful or a perfect, classy, elegant, socially prominent, petite and intelligent lady who had a perfect rush in pink sequins.

It's just that I am old enough to know that the truly perfect, beautiful, successful and classy ladies really have no need to beat people over the head about it. "Mean girls" are the ones who do that.

Do go on Sheherezad. True or not, we are obviously hooked...

[recruitment]

Originally Posted by Katmandu

if your father died

"Mean girls" are the ones who do that.

Do go on Sheherezad. True or not

now reversing what you just posted... were those comments really appropriate? you are an obviously highly educated and very intelligent lady... your posts are very well written and well composed. but those are the statements of a "mean girl"... and you just said it. i have no argument with you... but you most certainly do not know everything... and you have just "presumed"... remember, reality can be quite different.

"if my father died"... that really is cruel.

and to everyone reading this... i have never, ever said i had a "perfect rush"... you will understand just as i found out... all too soon... how truly odd recruitment can be.

cheers!

[AnatraAmore]

Most story, please! I'm dying over here...

[Axid angel]

i hate to sound pushy, but please please please finish your story! i must know what "that thing" is. there are a lot more of us who want to hear your story on this board than there are mean girls. besides no matter what the mean girls say deep down they want to hear the rest of the story too!

[AXiDGirl10]

Originally Posted by Axid angel

i hate to sound pushy, but please please please finish your story! i must know what "that thing" is. there are a lot more of us who want to hear your story on this board than there are mean girls. besides no matter what the mean girls say deep down they want to hear the rest of the story too!

I agree. I feel like I just wasted several minutes of my life reading through the few pages of new posts in this thread from this afternoon til now... So many new posts and no updates! Pleeeeeeeease just update already. Can you just copy & paste the whole entire thing to me in a PM or something?

I'm getting tired of reading all these posts that have absolutely nothing to do with your recruitment story.

[thetaprincess]

I hate to sound rude -- But I know there are a lot more that want to know what happened with you and your twin, Syd. I am dying to know what happened in your story. Hurry up and finish, Pretty Please

Originally Posted by Axid angel

i hate to sound pushy, but please please please finish your story! i must know what "that thing" is. there are a lot more of us who want to hear your story on this board than there are mean girls. besides no matter what the mean girls say deep down they want to hear the rest of the story too!

Okay, I've stayed quiet long enough.

When PNMs post their recruitment stories as they're going through the process, after a while it's become an unwritten rule that if they don't post updates (for whatever reason) to feed your recruitment story obsession, we should respect that instead of bumping the thread to the top with "OMG! WHERE ARE YOU? POST YOUR STORY ALREADY!!!" posts.

Why no one really bothers to apply that same respect to retro rush thread posts is beyond me because honestly? You guys are just as friggin' annoying as the "mean girls".

Sure, she's here posting and copping the snarky attitude while defending herself, but she'll post her damn updates when she wants to.

Freaking A.

[AXiDGirl10]

Originally Posted by OTW

Okay, I've stayed quiet long enough.

When PNMs post their recruitment stories as they're going through the process, after a while it's become an unwritten rule that if they don't post updates (for whatever reason) to feed your recruitment story obsession, we should respect that instead of bumping the thread to the top with "OMG! WHERE ARE YOU? POST YOUR STORY ALREADY!!!" posts.

Why no one really bothers to apply that same respect to retro rush thread posts is beyond me because honestly? You guys are just as friggin' annoying as the "mean girls".

Sure, she's here posting and copping the snarky attitude while defending herself, but she'll post her damn updates when she wants to.

Freaking A.

I understand what you're saying, and I understand that it can be annoying. Sorry for that.

However, I think that sometimes the posters of these retro threads like to hear people begging for more because that way they know that people are actually interested in their story. I've seen in several retro threads when they don't get many replies after posting, the OP will say something like, "Hmm... XXX hits today, but no replies. I guess some people are still reading...?"

Especially in this thread, I think it's important to let the OP know that there are still people interested in reading to encourage her to post more. I think she pretty much feels like everyone is against her story, so she's reluctant to post.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AXiDGirl10

I understand what you're saying, and I understand that it can be annoying. Sorry for that.

However, I think that sometimes the posters of these retro threads like to hear people begging for more because that way they know that people are actually interested in their story. I've seen in several retro threads when they don't get many replies after posting, the OP will say something like, "Hmm... XXX hits today, but no replies. I guess some people are still reading...?"

Especially in this thread, I think it's important to let the OP know that there are still people interested in reading to encourage her to post more. I think she pretty much feels like everyone is against her story, so she's reluctant to post.

Honestly, if she really has her story cut and pasted, she's just toying. She sounds exactly like a few other people with her "mean girls" screed. Particularly since the majority of people here were disbelieving, not snarking. Oh and the casual suggestion of telling people's bosses about their GC use Please.

She's been on GC and knows the game and she's just playing everyone along the way. I've not seen anything that would convince me otherwise.

[recruitment]

Originally Posted by OTW

Okay, I've stayed quiet long enough.

When PNMs post their recruitment stories as they're going through the process, after a while it's become an unwritten rule that if they don't post updates (for whatever reason) to feed your recruitment story obsession, we should respect that instead of bumping the thread to the top with "OMG! WHERE ARE YOU? POST YOUR STORY ALREADY!!!" posts.

Why no one really bothers to apply that same respect to retro rush thread posts is beyond me because honestly? You guys are just as friggin' annoying as the "mean girls".

Sure, she's here posting and copping the snarky attitude while defending herself, but she'll post her damn updates when she wants to.

Freaking A.

otw... i have to carefully chose my words or i will sound like one of those "crazy pmns" and then everyone will start a thread about me.

i certainly admire you. you are witty, funny, sweet, caring... blunt, candid... and irreverent... everything i am not... but wished i could be. but that was not even a remote possibility for me... not with my mother... and it is not how i am wired... and most certainly not appropriate for my family. i have always appreciated how you just lay it out. you are definitely your own person. i truly wish more people had your zest and spirit for life! and... yes, you are right. these things take forever... i never said i had this done on word... that was sweet maximus406... read people, read. it takes a great deal of time. i am not a writer... but i am really trying to keep this interesting... but it takes forever! and i am sorry, today was a downer... i was not so much trying to defend myself... but correct what i perceived had become yet another infamous gc "trainwreck!" at least we were off of poor patsy ramsey... but i really did not expect what i read... i would love to juyst go back to her. and.. i wanted in before the lock!

cheers!

[sAKAsfaction]

I'M STILL REEEEAAAAAADING!

AND I NEED MOOOORE!
THAT WAS JUST A TEASE.

[recruitment]

to be honest, i really do not have the heart to do this right now... but so many of you have been so kind and so caring, i truly appreciate it. you have so lovingly and carefully followed this saga... so i really owe it to you.. andmyself to finish this thread.

four party day for sydney, at last!

saturday was finally sydney's four party day. i have already discussed how long and awful that pmn orientation day had been for me on that same saturday. i neglected to mention how terribly distracted i was... i knew it was four party day for sydney... would this thing horrible thing ever be over? ugh! being anxious about syd just made it worse and even longer if that is possible. with fewer chapters they did not find out until early saturday morning what chapters they, as a pmn, would be invited back to. i was able to speak with sydney after her all house days and just knew... one of those "twin things"... that syd would pick... deer valley, aspen and the unknown sun valley. i finally decided she would also pick keystone as her fourth choice. she was teasing with me and kept me guessing... but she finally admitted to me that i was right... i knew it! i knew that her cuts would be easier as there were just about half of the houses my university had at that time. i was so anxious to find out on saturday which houses she got invited back to. i really hoped she got her favorite four! by the time we finally finished i could not reach her... oh, i really wanted to know... she she was already right in the middle of four party day. i finally figured out the only way i would ever find out was to call our mother... who would then grill me about my day.

i quickly called our mother... and found out that sydney had been indeed been invited back for four party day to deer valley, aspen... and keystone. three, not four? humm... what happened to sun valley? i was quiet and our mother picked up on it... but she was thrilled for syd and thought those were the best and her schedule would hopefully give her time to refresh herself before the more important parties for her. three... that is half of the sororities... i agreed, that was good. little did i know... our mother did not tell me that syd was crushed that sun valley had cut her... she really liked them. she really did not expect that... but she was having a wonderful recruitment and got three absolutely wonderful houses... i was thrilled for her. of course... mother was overly dramatic and ecstatic... for a specific reason...

then, just as i knew... she had to know all about my day. what could i possibly say that would sound encouraging... so i just said it was "interesting." she wanted more... but i knew how to handle her and that was all i wanted to say. she was frustrated with me... and then reminded me what my "obligations" were... my "obligations?" i finally told her i had to run... but reminded her that syd had to call me...

i so hoped syd would call me before four party day... and especially after four party day. details, i wanted details... oh my, i was turning into our mother! i just chalked it up to being so anxious to hear her actually tell me and tell me everything about it. however... my recruitment group went out for the evening... and like syd, i wanted to be with them and get to know them before the onslaught on monday... long, horrible monday. i think we were all still dazed from that awful orientation... and many spoke candidily about dropping out if it was going to be that awful. that was not a good way to start rush... but the looming recruitment and our hopes and dreams soon turned to laughs, stories... and far too much "tent talk." i had missed syd... but i knew we both had sunday off and we would get to have a good talk before her prefs. three... out of six...for four party day... that was good. i was so happy for her... but so nervous about my upcoming monday.

cheers!

[recruitment]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

OP, I think you may have just thrown down the gauntlet in what might become a long digression, but I want to say this, you really should take a look at any book from the Sweet Valley High series. I think that you would completely understand a lot of what was said about the thread.

you are abolutely correct! however i just really do not care... let them do and say what they want. sadly, i probably stooped to their level... and i do not do that, i generally avoid that at all costs. but what i said about them is true.

i admit that i was initially shocked... who on earth would try to make up a recruitment thread? i just told about our lives. but one has to remember... that what i have written is our lives and who we are and how we were raised. i cannot change the fact i was a twin, i had nothing to do with that. i cannot nor would i ever have changed my parents... i was blessed, but i had nothing to do with that. and we are all products of our environment. yes, i totally agree and have never hidden the fact that we had a great deal of privilege... but with privilege comes responsibilities. i am certainly not ignorant... and i contemplated that post for quite some time. i am not really trying to pick a fight... or be antagonistic, that is really not me. but... when they accused me of lying and were laughing about it and making all kinds of inappropriate comments... i finally decided enough was enough. i have received countless wonderful pms... the real ladies on gc know them and know what they are like. with the good comes the bad... that is life. i really do not seek strife in my life... i deal with it enough professionally. but i decided to finally stand up for myself. i also knew i that i wanted to say something that i have noticed and thought about for a long time. it is true... and most everyone who is still left of gc know it. what happens, happens. they know the "ignore feautre"... they certainly lecture new people about it enough. like i said... i knew exactly what i was doing. but i am not a "mean girl"... just honest.

i honestly do not know anything about these "fictional twins"... i think my generation missed that. however, i personally cannot think of anything worse to read. i am sorry... but that does interest me in the slightest... especially if it is "supposed" to be something like our real lives. our lives are not a fictional story book... i have no interest in anything like that. however... i do thank you and appreciate your kind suggestion, but that just isn't who i am.

cheers!

[BetteDavisEyes]

Originally Posted by recruitment

i admit that i was initially shocked... who on earth would try to make up a recruitment thread?

There have dozens of perps here on GC that have faked recruitment threads or faked being a member for a long time before being ousted.