Retro Rush Flashback! Board Game Edition

[Barbie's_Rush]

Pretty sure there's going to be an AOPi ending to this one.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Pretty sure there's going to be an AOPi ending to this one.

Hmmm...unless this is a new AOII, the only other sister, besides me, who pledged in '93 was a Spring recruitment New member- ForeverRoses. Maybe so, but then she'll need to come introduce herself. I have been chuckling at references to Sun Ripened Raspberries and other things from '93.

Though, this story sounds awfully familiar ...

There was singing, there were candles, there was food, matched to the colors of the sorority (which Rushee picked up on and mentioned, much to her hostess' delight) and she was asked to accept a flower, which they would hold for her until she came back the next day as their sister. She felt a strong connection with the house and was glad to have preffed there. She could definitely see herself in Pictionary.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Hmmm...unless this is a new AOII, the only other sister, besides me, who pledged in '93 was a Spring recruitment New member- ForeverRoses. Maybe so, but then she'll need to come introduce herself. I have been chuckling at references to Sun Ripened Raspberries and other things from '93.

Though, this story sounds awfully familiar ...

Or it could be at UGA........

[BraveMaroon]

Sorry to leave you hanging, but Zumba waits for no one.

And Barbie, you are one smart cookie. This story does come from UGA.

And now...the payoff.

Rushee found her Rho Chi, and her group sat in a circle, opening their envelopes together and then went around telling where they went. Tight perm/frosty blue eyeshadow girl went Monopoly. One of the annoying girls who had spent every minute sucking up to the Rho Chi ended up - shocker - at Boggle. Of the roughly 15 girls in her group, there seemed to be a good number ending up at Sorry, Candyland, Backgammon and Boggle. A few at Risk, one at Jenga, one at Battleship.



Rushee opened her envelope and was excited (though not entirely surprised) to learn that she was a new member of....






































Wait for it...




















































Life!














Also known as:






















Wait for it...

















Sigma Kappa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Rushee was super excited to get a bid to her first choice, even though most of her group looked at her like, "Where? Oh, yeah...I cut them after first round...".




Rushee ran into a few girls from her High School - they were all pledging Sorry or Candyland. This didn't bother Rushee - she could blaze her own trail. When she arrived at the dorm, Silly was out and about. She called her mother to tell her the news, then got dressed in white, and packed some casual clothes, per her invitation. As far as she could tell, nobody on her floor had ended up at Sigma Kappa. Her dorm was small and co-ed, though - so she didn't worry.


She didn't have a car, and back then, the buses didn't take you to Sorority Row on bid day. She hitched a ride from a few new Sorry pledges (ha, ha) and they dropped her at her new house. When she walked up, the lawn was covered in girls in white dresses - her Pref Host game and grabbed her and hugged her and said, "We are SO GLAD you're here. When they read your name, I screamed!!!" She took Rushee inside and introduced her around.

I'll wrap up the loose ends in a conclusion, but that is essentially the story of how Rushee McGee ended up pledging a sorority.

[PiPhiERDoc]

Yay! Love a happy ending.

But I would LOVE to hear what happened to Silly...

[BraveMaroon]

Odds and Ends/Happily Ever After



Much of bid day was a blur. She met lots and lots of people - her new sisters. Her pledge class, though smaller than some on campus, looked like a nice mix of all kinds of girls. They ate a huge dinner, and went through the pledging ceremony.



Her Pref Hostess, who we'll call Sister, became Rushee's first Heart Buddy. Later, she would become Rushee's Big Sis.



Her Second Round Hostess came up to her to tell her she'd saved her a goldfish - and that she could keep it as a pet or eat it. She told Rushee that she thought her comment was hilarious and knew she'd be a great fit at the house. WHew!


She met people she hadn't seen during Rush who seemed like they would make great friends. And they did.


And that Sigma Kappa Rho Chi who looked familiar? She was the one who had handed Rushee the financial sheets before she turned in the scantron after prefs. As a Rho Chi, she knew the numbers were low for both houses and knew that Rushee would likely end up wherever she ranked first. She told Rushee she remembered thinking after Rushee left, "There goes my new sister," and wished she hadn't been so huffy. Rushee never noticed.



Rushee McGee became a sister that fall - and though not every day was rainbows, pedicures and unicorns pooping cotton candy, Rushee had the experience of a lifetime. She made friends, laughed, cried, raged, got sick, got well, fell in love and and got her heart broken all under the roof of that house. She studied and got into her major. She partied and got into trouble (not legal or pregnant - just, you know, drunk). She fought with her sisters, she loved her sisters. She confided in them. They confided in her. Some days, she wondered what she had been thinking. Some days she wondered if things would have been different at Pictionary. Some days (not often) she thought of taking off her pin and walking out.


But most of the time, Rushee realized that what she had was special, insane and great.





Now, you may wonder what became of Silly. Well, much to Silly's dismay, there ended up being only one house that was interested in her after Rush. They courted her heavily, especially after she started dating a guy at a fraternity where a lot of their sisters had boyfriends. Silly never pledged, and Mrs. Oldschool swore that Risk would never get another dime from her.

Rushee's fears that Sigma Kappa might offer Silly a bid were quashed early. Because they were a small chapter, Sigma Kappa continued to Snap Bid throughout the fall. When Rushee mentioned that her roommate had dropped out of Rush, they asked about her. When she mentioned her roommate's name (which, I assure you was not actually Silly, but a name equally as distinctive), the three sisters she was talking with howled with laughter. They assured her that Silly had been cut. Why? Because apparently, she'd been so insistent during the parties that she wasn't interested in anything but Risk that they "set her free". That was the exact expression.

As for the Risk house, I'll never know why they cut Silly - likely because they were (and probably are) a house that can fill up with legacies alone every year. Now, why they chose to cut her so late in the game? Who knows. Poor form, in my opinion - and I honestly felt bad for Silly, worse for her mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and cousins - all of whom were Risks throughout the South.

Rushee eventually had enough of Silly and moved out of the dorms and into the house after Christmas. And she never saw Silly again. No kidding.

A few other side notes...


Sorry house apparently got in a little trouble that year - for something worse than flavored water. The word was that they advised everyone at Prefs to suicide their house, and they'd get them in by Snap Bidding. It worked. A little too well - they were at house total within moments. They left a lot of mismatched girls twisting in the wind. Sigma Kappa ended up with a few of them and they were great additions to my Pledge Class. By the time I went through initiation, we had a respectable sized class, and in the years that followed, we nearly doubled in size.


In case you're wondering (and I know I would be), I suspect I would have found equal happiness at Pictionary - aka Alpha Gamma Delta. The slight edge that Sigma Kappa had was that Rushee wasn't a touchy feely girl, and prefs made her feel a little squicky. At Sigma Kappa her host read her a little better, and that was that. The matching food at AGD, for what it's worth were green grapes, buff cheesecake and red strawberries. It was adorable. Seriously.

Some years after graduation, I met a UGA AGD at Weight Watchers (eh, it happens to the best of us) and found out that she was a year ahead of me. We were thisclose to having been sisters. Of course, she had preffed at SK, too, so, you never know.


Finally, Scrabble, where I was a legacy, is Kappa Alpha Theta. I was paired up with their President in a project for school my Senior year, and found her to be a great girl - and I did finally get the house tour there when I met her to work on our material.

Today, many of my closest girlfriends were Greek (GPhiB, TriSig and so on)at their schools, and what we have decided is this:

Every house has partiers. Every house has studiers. Every house has girls who don't miss a Bible Study, and girls who don't set foot inside a place of worship for fear of lightning striking it. In your house, there are going to be girls you don't like, and girls you love. Every house has girls who own the entire Clinique (or in 2010 parlance, MAC or Sephora) line of products, and girls who consider Burt's Bees makeup. Some girls will date all the time, some will have to borrow other sisters' male friends every year for formal. Some girls will do things you don't agree with, and you'll either confront it or let it go. But go into it with an open mind, and give it a shot. Because, even if sometimes I can't believe I joined a sorority, there's nothing in this world that can compare.

Good luck!

Rushee "BraveMaroon" McGee

[AOIIBuckeye]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

Odds and Ends/Happily Ever After

Rushee McGee became a sister that fall - and though not every day was rainbows, pedicures and unicorns pooping cotton candy, Rushee had the experience of a lifetime. She made friends, laughed, cried, raged, got sick, got well, fell in love and and got her heart broken all under the roof of that house. She studied and got into her major. She partied and got into trouble (not legal or pregnant - just, you know, drunk). She fought with her sisters, she loved her sisters. She confided in them. They confided in her. Some days, she wondered what she had been thinking. Some days she wondered if things would have been different at Pictionary. Some days (not often) she thought of taking off her pin and walking out.


But most of the time, Rushee realized that what she had was special, insane and great.

I literally laughed and teared up at this. Truer words have probably been spoken, but none so applicable to the crazy ride that is Sisterhood <3.

[twinkle555]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

Today, many of my closest girlfriends were Greek (GPhiB, TriSig and so on)at their schools, and what we have decided is this:

Every house has partiers. Every house has studiers. Every house has girls who don't miss a Bible Study, and girls who don't set foot inside a place of worship for fear of lightning striking it. In your house, there are going to be girls you don't like, and girls you love. Every house has girls who own the entire Clinique (or in 2010 parlance, MAC or Sephora) line of products, and girls who consider Burt's Bees makeup. Some girls will date all the time, some will have to borrow other sisters' male friends every year for formal. Some girls will do things you don't agree with, and you'll either confront it or let it go. But go into it with an open mind, and give it a shot. Because, even if sometimes I can't believe I joined a sorority, there's nothing in this world that can compare.

BEST.QUOTE.ON GC.EVER. I'm contemplating putting this as my Facebook status (even though no one really can appreciate it since all the actives deactivated FB tonight..darn!)

Seriously, can this quote be stickied/stitched on a pillow/written in the sky? LOVE IT!

Amazing story!!

[ColdInCanada11]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

Odds and Ends/Happily Ever After







Rushee McGee became a sister that fall - and though not every day was rainbows, pedicures and unicorns pooping cotton candy, Rushee had the experience of a lifetime. She made friends, laughed, cried, raged, got sick, got well, fell in love and and got her heart broken all under the roof of that house. She studied and got into her major. She partied and got into trouble (not legal or pregnant - just, you know, drunk). She fought with her sisters, she loved her sisters. She confided in them. They confided in her. Some days, she wondered what she had been thinking. Some days she wondered if things would have been different at Pictionary. Some days (not often) she thought of taking off her pin and walking out.


But most of the time, Rushee realized that what she had was special, insane and great.














In case you're wondering (and I know I would be), I suspect I would have found equal happiness at Pictionary - aka Alpha Gamma Delta. The slight edge that Sigma Kappa had was that Rushee wasn't a touchy feely girl, and prefs made her feel a little squicky. At Sigma Kappa her host read her a little better, and that was that. The matching food at AGD, for what it's worth were green grapes, buff cheesecake and red strawberries. It was adorable. Seriously.

Some years after graduation, I met a UGA AGD at Weight Watchers (eh, it happens to the best of us) and found out that she was a year ahead of me. We were thisclose to having been sisters. Of course, she had preffed at SK, too, so, you never know.


Finally, Scrabble, where I was a legacy, is Kappa Alpha Theta. I was paired up with their President in a project for school my Senior year, and found her to be a great girl - and I did finally get the house tour there when I met her to work on our material.

Today, many of my closest girlfriends were Greek (GPhiB, TriSig and so on)at their schools, and what we have decided is this:

Every house has partiers. Every house has studiers. Every house has girls who don't miss a Bible Study, and girls who don't set foot inside a place of worship for fear of lightning striking it. In your house, there are going to be girls you don't like, and girls you love. Every house has girls who own the entire Clinique (or in 2010 parlance, MAC or Sephora) line of products, and girls who consider Burt's Bees makeup. Some girls will date all the time, some will have to borrow other sisters' male friends every year for formal. Some girls will do things you don't agree with, and you'll either confront it or let it go. But go into it with an open mind, and give it a shot. Because, even if sometimes I can't believe I joined a sorority, there's nothing in this world that can compare.

Good luck!

Rushee "BraveMaroon" McGee

1. This made me spit out my tea, thankfully I had a notebook on my keyboard. I hope that the unicorns pooping cotton candy show up to our rush work weekend, lol. But I wonder what we would feed them?

2. Our chapter does this all the time, at tons of events. I won a prize at the junior circle/active Christmas party of lemon, green, and red tea. I don't know why, our colours tend to lend themselves well to food pairings.

Awesome story!!!

[AOII Angel]

Yippee for Sigma Kappa! 17 years late, of course!

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

This story does come from UGA.

I thought so!!