University of Alabama NPC recruitment 2019 thread

[DistantXOcousin]

My girlfriends and I took a break from our husbands and drove down to Tuscaloosa together! We left from Chicago very early in the morning on the sixth, all five of us packed into the car, and we arrived yesterday. The men drove in their own car and the girls drove together.

We all moved the girls in after the storm had stopped, the men arrived just before us and did all the heavy lifting while us chickens did the decorating and organizing.

They’re my “nieces” and I’m their “aunt”, I’ve known them since they were born and they were close with my girls, I’m beyond excited to see them go through rush!

All together we have 20 recommendations written for Alabama, 4 for Chi Omega (I wrote 1 extra!), 4 for Phi Mu, 4 for Zeta Tau Alpha, 4 for Kappa Delta, and 4 for Pi Beta Phi.

We meet with a group of some other girlfriends and are sharing an Airbnb house while the men go off on their own vacation.

Anyways, I’m beyond excited to finally be here and experience Alabama recruitment! If anyone else is down in Tuscaloosa, I’d love to see them!

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by DistantXOcousin

My girlfriends and I took a break from our husbands and drove down to Tuscaloosa together! We left from Chicago very early in the morning on the sixth, all five of us packed into the car, and we arrived yesterday. The men drove in their own car and the girls drove together.

We all moved the girls in after the storm had stopped, the men arrived just before us and did all the heavy lifting while us chickens did the decorating and organizing.

They’re my “nieces” and I’m their “aunt”, I’ve known them since they were born and they were close with my girls, I’m beyond excited to see them go through rush!

All together we have 20 recommendations written for Alabama, 4 for Chi Omega (I wrote 1 extra!), 4 for Phi Mu, 4 for Zeta Tau Alpha, 4 for Kappa Delta, and 4 for Pi Beta Phi.

We meet with a group of some other girlfriends and are sharing an Airbnb house while the men go off on their own vacation.

Anyways, I’m beyond excited to finally be here and experience Alabama recruitment! If anyone else is down in Tuscaloosa, I’d love to see them!

I hope you keep us updated with everything. This experience is foreign to me. Absolutely foreign. Decorating rooms?? SEC rush?? Emphasis on "cute"?? Staying while daughter go through???

I keep reading these stories. It's like a fantasy novel to me - a completely different world from what I know. Maybe if I read enough of them over the next 100 or so years I'll understand!

Thank you.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by DGTess

I hope you keep us updated with everything. This experience is foreign to me. Absolutely foreign. Decorating rooms?? SEC rush?? Emphasis on "cute"?? Staying while daughter go through???

I keep reading these stories. It's like a fantasy novel to me - a completely different world from what I know. Maybe if I read enough of them over the next 100 or so years I'll understand!

Thank you.

Tess, I went to school there back when bell bottom jeans were first popular, and it's a foreign country to me now. We all thought the moms who stayed for the week were literally crazy. Coordinated and decorated dorms - all that stuff wasn't even on the market. And your parents coming for bid day? Unfathomable. Who would want their parents there?

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Tess, I went to school there back when bell bottom jeans were first popular, and it's a foreign country to me now. We all thought the moms who stayed for the week were literally crazy. Coordinated and decorated dorms - all that stuff wasn't even on the market. And your parents coming for bid day? Unfathomable. Who would want their parents there?

I was barely BORN when bell bottom jeans were the rage and I am with you 100% on all of that. Could not agree more on why would anyone *want* their parents there! We finally escaped the nest and were ready to be seen as independent and grown up. We would have been mortified had mom showed up at all. My parents didn't even help me move in. I just packed the car and headed off to school.

Though not Alabama it was state of Texas. And Lord knows we Texans invented crazy. Yet, that would have been BEYOND crazy even for us.