Rushing as a Fifth Year senior

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Wait, what? We had chapter on Monday nights, and if women had Monday night classes, they didn't attend. Nobody's membership hinged on that.

You would encourage a fifth year senior to pledge and not be able to make chapter for a minimum of an entire semester or one third of her time as an active?

[navane]

Well your recruitment starts in two days, yes? Best wishes - I hope you have a nice time and make a lot of new friends.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by FifthYear

Calm down with your rudeness please. I emailed Greek Affairs at my school (who actually encouraged me rushing this late) about the meetings. I'll see what they say about it. But either way I would rather go through rush for the experience than to always regret not doing it. I already regret putting it off for 4 years, I'm not going to regret it again next year too.

QFP.

I advise you to not attempt to tell a sorority member about herself. She is what you are aspiring to become. She was not typing to you. She was typing to another Greekchatter with a more general question/comment that really is not about you personally. You are the one who came to a message board for advice. You could have emailed Greek Affairs without the Greekchat advice but the Greekchatters were being polite.

Back to my lane.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

You would encourage a fifth year senior to pledge and not be able to make chapter for a minimum of an entire semester or one third of her time as an active?

That's not what you said. You said that she wouldn't be able to be a member. That's not a blanket statement you should be making without knowing individual chapters' policies on such things.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

That's not what you said. You said that she wouldn't be able to be a member. That's not a blanket statement you should be making without knowing individual chapters' policies on such things.

You're right. I didn't say it exactly the way I wanted to. Regardless of individual chapter's attendance policies, I do know that even if every absence is excused, a NM will have a hard time getting to know people and finding her place if she is never there. No chapter is in need of phantom members. She's going to have a hard enough time feeling out of place because:

Originally Posted by Wishful

If I was 23/24, I would not want to be mixing with ladies and fraternity gentlemen who just got out of high school.

As far as the OP is concerned, good luck with recruitment at Western Kentucky. You've already posted enough identifying info online and left it there until last night even after being warned to scrub your info for chapters to know ahead of time that you're not going to be around much. Regardless of their attendance policies, they can decide whether or not to bid you. If it's down to you or Franny Freshman or Sally Sophomore who don't have such a busy schedule, I know who I'd choose. I also wouldn't be so quick to dismiss AOII Angel's warning of how intense clinicals are. She's a sorority alumna AND a doctor. It is not uncommon for nursing majors to fall off the face of sorority earth during their last semesters in school because they have so much to do and in ways they've never dreamed of busy before. If that's rude, so be it. It's also the truth.

Also, if you're not as busy as AOII Angel indicates that you shoułd be, could you please let me know? A ton of Nashville area people go to Western, and I want to make sure that none of the nurses at my doctor's office went there if it's super easy.

Cheer up. The chapters may meet on Sunday.