So I’ve been creeping around this board for a while reading the other stories on here while never getting around to posting mine. And now that I’m in the midst of midterm season, I thought, what better way to NOT study than to post my story on GC? I’m a pretty big procrastinator, you see.
Here it goes:
I’m a sophomore. I was the first one in my family to go to college so I didn’t know anything about Greek life. The deadline to sign up came and went without me even knowing. However, several friends in my dorm rushed and they ended up loving being in Greek life. Sometimes they would invite my friends and me to different events, and I got a taste of what being in a sorority was like.
Cue this year:
This year I moved out of the dorms and into a quad in West University (right next to all of the sororities) with all guys (they be called my boys from now on). Living with guys is fun, but does nothing for the inner girl in me. Then, a week or so before school started, I woke up to strange shouts and yells. I looked outside and saw tons of girls outside at different houses lining up and practicing chants and doing all sorts of things to prepare for rush. I thought it was lovely, but a tad annoying for 5 in the morning. However, after that morning a strange feeling came over me. A tiny bit of me wanted to rush. I asked my boys what they thought about it. “Yeah, hot chicks!” They said in caveman. No help there. After arguing with myself about it the whole week, I finally signed up for rush. The day before the deadline. No recs or letters. No regrets.
The day of orientation, I got a free pep talk from my boys, which included gems such as, “Don’t be afraid! Go out there balls to the wall! Do us proud!”
And with that I was prepared for rush. I was going to see where I fit and I was going to go confidently, and well, balls to the wall. I didn’t know what that meant, but it became my mantra over rush.
The Houses:
There are 9 at Oregon, plus one local sorority that was going to present to us. I couldn’t think of any fun code for them, so I am going to assign them totally random animals.
Ducks
Nutria
Alaskan Malamutes
Panthers
Tasmanian Devils
Cats
Black Bears
Cardinals
Pandas
Horses
(See?! TOTALLY RANDOM!
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Round one next.
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