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I think it's great that a new sorority is going to colonize at IU, but I don't know how well it will fare with the student body. I think many girls are attracted to the Greek system at IU because of the fact that all 19 chapters have a house on campus. A lot of girls going through recruitment would probably have a really difficult time ranking a chapter without a house highly.
But as far as 19 party goes, it just finished tonight! I won't give a total recap of my weekend because I don't want to bore you all to tears, but here are just some things about the past 2 days:
- It was so cold! I think it was quite funny/ironic how the first major snowfall of the season occurred literally the night before 19 party. On Saturday we braved snowfall which wasn't too bad, but today was just absolutely freezing. The wind chill didn't really help either! For me, the worst part was standing outside each chapter and just waiting to go inside. Once we got inside, it was all good.
- A lot of girls, myself included, have REALLY similar top 14 lists after this round. I totally went into recruitment thinking that I should go for what are considered "lower" tier chapters, as horrible as that sounds. I'm paranoid because I am not a legacy and I don't have any recommendation letters, and I hear the horror stories about IU recruitment all the time. But I have found that all the houses do an amazing job of recruiting and I just fell in love with so many houses. I know it's hard to really judge an entire chapter based on 30 minutes but I got good vibrations from a lot of chapters. People say this all the time, but now I understand that there really isn't a "bad" chapter at IU.
- I had some really great conversations with girls in different houses. People always say that the best conversations at rush are the ones that go beyond the generic "What's your major?" "What brought you to IU?" ones. Those conversations are what helped me remember houses the best.
- It was a really fun experience overall. I am dead tired and have no energy, but I'm very happy with how things turned out. My biggest fear is being "that girl" who gets back a minuscule number of houses for 14 party but I'm crossing my fingers. I hope that the rest of recruitment goes just as well!
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