My IU live recruitment story!

[chickenoodle]

Forgive the newbie question. IU has recruitment during finals? How does that work?

As a side note, I think the bed quota system is interesting. I can't imagine being one of 1500 girls going all the way through recruitment and not being one of the 87%. How heartbreaking.

[IUelle]

Originally Posted by chickenoodle

Forgive the newbie question. IU has recruitment during finals? How does that work?

As a side note, I think the bed quota system is interesting. I can't imagine being one of 1500 girls going all the way through recruitment and not being one of the 87%. How heartbreaking.

No worries! It's not actually during finals. Rush was this past weekend, and this week we still have classes. It's "dead week," but next week kicks off final exams. However, a lot of professors weren't exactly forgiving with girls involved in rush, whether they're PNM's or women in chapters, and there was a LOT of work due this week for everyone. I had four papers due this week, two down, two to go...but obviously I'm on GC procrastinating

[agzg]

Originally Posted by chickenoodle

Forgive the newbie question. IU has recruitment during finals? How does that work?

They have a weekend or so of it before finals at the end of fall semester and then the rest of it is (I believe) the week before school starts again or the week of. With 19 chapters... it gets a little crazy.

I met some sisters from IU at an alumnae event a month or two ago and admitted to them that IU's bed quota system is incredibly intimidating and I wouldn't have been able to make it through. Maybe this was because they all had a happy ending but they said that it was one of the things they loved about their greek system most.

[chickenoodle]

Originally Posted by IUelle

No worries! It's not actually during finals. Rush was this past weekend, and this week we still have classes. It's "dead week," but next week kicks off final exams. However, a lot of professors weren't exactly forgiving with girls involved in rush, whether they're PNM's or women in chapters, and there was a LOT of work due this week for everyone. I had four papers due this week, two down, two to go...but obviously I'm on GC procrastinating

Originally Posted by agzg

They have a weekend or so of it before finals at the end of fall semester and then the rest of it is (I believe) the week before school starts again or the week of. With 19 chapters... it gets a little crazy.

Perhaps the concept of a university large enough to host 19 chapters is lost on me, but I don't understand why recruitment would be broken up over winter break. Why not have a complete recruitment period at the start of the spring semester or just before finals?

Originally Posted by agzg

I met some sisters from IU at an alumnae event a month or two ago and admitted to them that IU's bed quota system is incredibly intimidating and I wouldn't have been able to make it through. Maybe this was because they all had a happy ending but they said that it was one of the things they loved about their greek system most.

I can see how living with your closest friends would be a blast. There was a thread around here about hilarious house stories that I really enjoyed. I'll be honest, I am kinda jealous