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First round of parties!
Our campus doesn’t have any houses so all the parties were in different big empty rooms around campus. This meant sometimes we had like two rooms over to get to before the next party and others we had to rush to get to the next chapter. Also we had a huge gamma chi group, so we were paired 2 or 3 PNM to every 1 active. I kept getting paired up with another sophomore, “Katie” and by the 6th party we were joking about how we should just answer the other’s questions for them.
First up was Wet N Wild. I was really nervous to be going to this sorority. I had heard so much about how they were partiers and whatnot. I didn’t want to be with people who did nothing but party, as fun as it can be. Imagine my surprise when my rusher was in one of the hardest majors on our campus. So my previous view of these girls was dashed a bit. Otherwise, I really don’t remember too much about this chapter. They were pretty laid back. But, just looking around I was pretty certain that I didn’t entirely fit in with this chapter.
Rimmel’s party was next and it was in the hottest room on campus. It was only the second party and the poor active members were already all broken out in a horrible sweat. The rusher me and Katie were paired with talked about a mile a minute. Neither of us got a chance to really ask much about the sorority and what not. She kept talking and talking. But, as peeved as I was that I couldn’t ask anything I found my rusher really sweet. Her high energy was for some odd reason making me feel more relaxed. My biggest issue with this chapter was the fact that they were kind of known as the “loser” sorority. I know it shouldn’t make that big of a difference to me because they could easily be my home. But, I cared a bit too much about what other people thought to really try for them.
Walking into OPI’s party was like walking into a sea of blonde hair extensions and fake tans. I hadn’t really been able to observe many members of OPI before but they seemed really preppy and fake and rich daddy’s girls from what I had seen before. The rusher just pretty much reinforced that view point. She paid pretty much no attention to me and focused almost entirely on Katie. They had both been involved in sports and similar jobs and I was like dying for another active to replace her, but it didn’t happen. This had to be the longest party I went to.
By now I thought I was starting to get the whole party thing down. I already knew what questions they were going to ask, I knew which questions I could ask that led to good conversation. So, while waiting outside Tarte’s party room I was feeling a little blasé about going in there, particularly because I was starting to second guess my decision to go through rush after OPI’s party. But when those doors opened for Tarte, I can’t explain it, but I got chills while walking in listening to their chant. They were definitely the best executed chant we had seen so far, but I felt an automatic sense of relief looking at all the girls and the wide variety in looks that they had.
Katie and I were paired with two actives at Tarte. One was pretty high energy but so amazingly adorable and sweet. The other one was really laid back. As we were talking and going through all the typical questions I started to feel a really close connection with these two girls. I hadn’t ever really considered Tarte too much before, I knew that there we a few in some of my chem labs last year. But now I was wishing I had spent more time talking to these girls because I was totally falling in love with their sorority. I didn’t want to leave these girls despite the fact that we still had yet to visit the two sororities that I had focused most on my energy on trying to get into. Oh, and I found out that they had a sister with my same major, which is extremely rare. So, I at least really wanted to get invited back to get a chance to talk to someone else with my major since I had only met like two other people with it.
We had a quick break before heading off to the last four parties for the round. First up of our second round was TooFaced. Many of the freshmen girls were really excited because they are one of the biggest chapters on our campus, and so in their eyes the one they just haaaave to get into. But, walking in felt really reminiscent of walking into OPI to me. All the girls looked pretty much like clones to me and although my rusher was sweet and (seemingly) showed a real interest in us, I just didn’t click with her. The only other thing I remember about TooFaced is that while we were walked out the door with all the chapters, it felt more like we were being shoved out at the end of their party.
I was really excited to go to the next one, Covergirl. They had just seemed like the perfect group to me from afar. They had a wide variety of girls, they were sweet, they were active on the campus community, just everything I wanted. Not to mention my aunt was a member of this very chapter and she definitely wanted me to really look into them. I was really disappointed though when I met my rusher. We were getting near to the end of the night and everyone was tired and it showed with her. Her energy was really down and it brought like a dead weight to our conversation. It only lightened up a little whenever someone I or Katie knew would stop by and say hi to one of us.
While leaving this party I couldn’t help but feel a little defeated. I had all these secret dreams of wearing Covergirl’s letters and now it felt like there was no chance of me getting invited back because convo was so slow. I definitely wasn’t so sure this was the chapter for me anymore, but I wanted to be invited back to be sure it was the girl I was paired with and not Covergirl as a whole that made me feel as such.
Next was Revlon, the other chapter I was really excited to meet. This one lived up to my expectations and then some. I had known them as a more academically focused sorority, but I ended up with two rushers, one in love with sports and very brash (which would normally scare me off) and the other really involved and in love with all their philanthropy work. I had such a good time laughing and having all our conversations with these two girls. I knew I could easily feel right at home with these girls.
Final party. I was tired, I knew every other girl was tired. But, we all mustered up the energy to get through this last one, Urban Decay. I really had no interest in them since I never really saw them around campus. But, my rusher was really sweet, bubbly, and addressed all my fears about academic stuff. She really made an effort to get to know me and Katie, taking the time to redirect any conversation that wasn’t about the sorority to asking about us. Although I still had a few doubts about their involvement on campus, I left the party smiling.
For ranking we had to prioritize the top six we wanted back to as 1, then the other two as 2 and 3. This made it very easy to rank since I knew for a fact which two I definitely didn’t have a good time with and where I just knew I’d be a horrible fit.
My rankings went as follows:
1. Tarte
1. Revlon
1. Urban Decay
1. Rimmel
1. Covergirl
1. Wet N Wild
2. TooFaced (Only because my rusher did seem fairly sweet and cause out of them and OPI, I’d rather give TooFaced a second chance.)
3. OPI
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