Mid-Atlantic Recruitment Story

[PearlsNPolos]

**i'm way to impatient to wait until recruitment is over to post my story so I'm changing it to live*** (well more like semi-live since i' won't be posting the same day as the actual events)

Tropical Storm Hannah is here and brought ALOT of rain.. and several of the houses having events today postponed them until tomorrow but a few are still having events. The thing is I don't live on campus and between the flash flooding, the accidents, downed trees, high winds and lane closures on the highway there's no way I'm able to attend. My mother strictly forbode it since my car (which is a '92) and is not equipped to handle such inclement weather. I know you guys are probably thinking that I have more excuses than a pregnant lady but safety is my number one priority and there's no way i'm jeopardizing that. I have a friend that belongs the house I'm missing due to the weather and told her why and she told me there's another event tomorrow so I'll go to that and if me not going today ends up hurting me I'll have no one to blame but myself; and I"m willing to take to chance.

Since I said I'm changing my story to live I'll update you guys on my experience so far..

Foo Fighters- LOVED LOVED LOVED!!! did I say LOVED?!?! the girls were very nice and genuinely sincere. I loved the fact that they were diverse in the sense that they weren't trying to fit a mold. I could really see myself there. I talked to the same girl the whole time and the conversation went great we had soo much in common. The party ended waay too soon. I'm so anxious to go back. A few girls actually walked with me to my car!! I guess that means they like me too.

Fall Out Boy- This was actually the first house I went to. Overall the experience was okay. The conversation kind of lagged a bit...like there were a few minutes when we actually sat in silence . Outside of their socials and homecoming events not alot was said about the chapter. Their philanthropy wasn't even mentioned although I knew what it was it would have been nice to have her bring it up. Maybe when I go back and interact with a few more girls it'll go a bit smoother and i can find more ways to keep the conversation going.

Stone Temple Pilots- I really liked these girls too. We didn't get a house tour but from what I saw the house is beautiful. The girl I talked to was soo much fun we def. bonded over the random topics but that was pretty kool. She did a good job of bringing Stone Temple Pilots into the conversation when it belonged and didn't try to make random connections to make it tie into everything we talked about. The second girl I talked to was great too. It was a bit harder to hear because at this point it was very loud but we had a good conversation overall. I felt bad for having to leave so soon but I def can't wait to go back and meet more girls.

Green Day- I don't really have an opinion on these girls yet. The house is gorgeous and I liked that I was able to see things that let me know that they were pretty serious about their phlanthropy. The girl I talked to was okay our conversation wasn't that awesome but I did like how she made a point to mention that Green Day actually encourages its members to get involved in other aspects of campus life. There were points where our converstation stalled a bit but it was only for a few moments. However, I think she was waiting for me to leave just as I was because we truly ran out of things to talk about. I'm curious to meet a few other members of Green Day to get a better idea of the girls.

Three Doors Down- I didnt really have a good experience here. I think it was mainly because there were two PNM's assigned to a Three Doors Down but the PNM with me obviously has a history with Three Doors Down house so I was completely ignored. Like conversation between the two would go on for a few minutes and if it was a topic that I was able to speak about I joined in but alot of the time it wasn't so I just stood there looking around. And then it seemed like when she remembered I was there she asked me a question. I was wishing that someone would come up and talk to me but no one did. I had a few other events scheduled so I was able to leave without feeling too bad about it. At one point I was just like "why bother" and wanted to drop this house completely from my consideration but then I remembered that one girl isn't a direct representation of an entire chapter so I"m going to give it another chance. And if the same thing happens again I'll just make more of an effort to get involved in the conversation.

Hoobastank- I wasn't as fond of this place as I thought that I'd be. Partly because the girl assigned to talk to me it was her first time rushing. So she kept asking me what I wanted to talk about. For awhile I was able to bring up topics for us to talk about but eventually I ran out. So when she asked again I was like "i don't know what else to ask honestly" and she was like "well you're the one that wants to be here" I'm not going to lie it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I'm sure she meant well when she said it but I wish that Hoobastank as a whole made sure that all the girls who were newbies to rushing had an idea of ideal conversation. Then I got pushed off on another girl.. it happened to be her first time rushing too.. she made a big effort to keep the conversation flowing but there wasn't really a connection. I plan on going back though because i can't really blame the girls I talked to at Hoobastank for not having a good experience if it was their first time going through it on the other side. Hopefully next time I'll have a better experience.