My not-so-perfect rush story

[LOVEinZTA]

Close to 900 girls then went back to their dorms and proceeded to gossip about all of the houses they had seen. Lisa said she has really liked Mocha and Latte while Ellie had completely fallen in love with Espresso. She couldn't stop talking about how down-to-earth the Espresso girls were and was very upset when I told her the girl I had met was spacey! Then in came Lola. She said she had visited French Press and knew this was the house she would join. She also talked about how she had visited Cafe au Lait and couldn't stand them, they were just so weird and annoying. I told her I'd had a good time at Cafe au Lait and thought they were very sweet. This sparked some intense criticism and name calling that I will not repeat, but I stood my ground and told the girls they needed to chill out. I really don't know why they were all feeling the need to pick on Cafe au Lait but I was getting sick of it and decided to go to bed for the night. I went to my room (which was next door in a building with very thin walls) and listened to some catty girls say that maybe I "was weird enough to be a Cafe au Lait anyway." I drifted off to sleep and woke up about 4 hours later to go see my last 4 houses.

Day 2 of Open Houses

I met my Rho Chis in the same place as the day before. Today we'd be visiting a few houses that were supposedly "big" on campus and Mindy in front of me seemed very excited as we got in line.

Macchiato - Oh. My. Lord. Let me start by saying that I had 3 recs/letters for this house and wasn't sure what I was going to think. I walked in to this house and all I could think about was how orange all the girls looked from fake baking (Note: this is just what I saw, not necessarily how it is, read the disclaimer in the first post). The girl who picked me up at the door spent the first 5 minutes we had talking about some girl who was supposed to be at the party who had a really unique name and had been nominated for Homecoming Queen or something.

French Press - I walked in to this party thinking if I heard their name out of Lola and Ashley's mouths one more time I might just strangle someone. I was met at the door by a girl who was very polite and conservative in the questions she asked. I looked around and these girls all seemed very put together. I met a few more sisters - I remember I was one of the last girls to leave the room because I was talking about something with one of the members but I really don't remember what it was.

Mocha - I looked back at Sally before we went in to this party and she seemed very excited. She said she had met several members of Mocha and loved them. We went in with lots of cheering and I was picked up by a girl very much down to earth who wasn't faking it like some of the other girls I had met. I ran into Sally afterwards who simply replied "those are my girls" but by this point all of the chapters were looking pretty much the same to me!

After this party we had a break and I think most of us went to grab lunch or a snack or something and we were told not to be late because if we missed the party we'd be dropped from recruitment. I made it there just fine (I'm a little OCD about being early to things) but there was one girl who had known our Rho Chi Amanda beforehand (I found out later that Amanda had previously dated the girl's brother) who didn't show up. I didn't really feel bad for her because she knew the consequences, but oddly enough she was back for recruitment in the spring...hmm.

Cappuccino - Last chapter of opens! This was the other house that my friend had helped me find a rec for initially. I met a girl who was very sweet. I couldn't really get a particular vibe from this house - I looked around and saw girls who were artsy, pretty, smart, just about everything. And I hadn't really heard or seen much of them around campus before. There wasn't really anything that stood out or pulled me in to the chapter.

I went to dinner with my greek-life-clueless boyfriend that night and was talking through everything swirling around in my head. He said something so simple (and knowing him I know that he didn't mean it to be profound) but it did actually hit me - "Just go where you're happy."

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And now just like I had to wait 2 and a half months, so will you.


Just kidding.