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The reason we tell girls they will eventually be happy, if they want to be, is because college freshmen are super special snowflakes who can't accept that this is a process of making friends, not their ascension to royalty. Nobody is going to bow and scrape at their feet. When rush is over there is a very real sense that all the love that was showered on them for the last week is gone. So the other house, their second choice (or their first choice if they got their second, or that house that dropped them after day one) would have been way better because the girls there would still be screaming and crying whenever they approach the door. Rush isn't real so there is a transition as these girls adapt to real college life and sorority membership.
Sorority membership is a club. It's a great club with lifetime engagement. The connections, the opportunity, the leadership, the fun, the boys, all of it. It's fun. But it's a CLUB. There is way too much pressure put on the process. If they would just relax, accept the (admittedly lousy) process for what it is, an incredibly convoluted way to make friends and join a club, maybe that pressure to instantly have the most spectacular never-ending moment of their lives would ease the eff up.
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"Traveling - It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~ Ibn Battuta
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