My Live Fall 09 Recruitment Story

[MerryGPhiB]

I love your story..... keep it going!!

[MidwayManiac]

I'm glad to see Rimmel moving up the list -- can't wait for the next installment.

[IHeartSephora]

Since tomorrow I'm going to be very busy I'll be posting up the next installment in just a little bit. Which means I'm wrecking any belatedness. Haha.

[MerryGPhiB]

Originally Posted by IHeartSephora

Since tomorrow I'm going to be very busy I'll be posting up the next installment in just a little bit. Which means I'm wrecking any belatedness. Haha.

YEAH!!!!

[IHeartSephora]

Next night was skit night. I was so excited, at all the parties the night before the girls from the chapters would go on and on about how much fun skit night was and how it was their favorite night when they had gone through. My excitement increased as I saw girls from different chapters running around campus doing last minute things in their costumes.

Once again I couldn’t wait to receive my schedule. I was so sure that I’d be invited back everywhere today. I got my schedule and saw…
Wet N Wild
Rimmel

I couldn’t help it, I started crying. What had I done wrong at Revlon? They had been the only chapter that I had a real conversation with; one that wasn’t just solely about the sorority. There had to be a mistake. There was no reason at all why they should have cut me. At that point I was seriously contemplating just grabbing my stuff and leaving. What was the point of continuing when every time I thought I knew where my home was, they cut me? Was it even worth going to these parties that were never really my favorites and come to a conclusion that I could make one of them a home and risk having the trend continue? Why was I putting myself through this? All my friends from high school and last year kept trying to perpetuate all the stereotypes about sororities and I chose to ignore them because I really wanted to join one. But, my heart kept getting broken by these girls.

But from reading on here I knew that I’d be worse off to drop out than to wait and let them all cut me. So, I dried my tears and made my way to my first party of the night.

I really couldn’t figure out why Wet N Wild kept inviting me back. I had always found conversations just plain awkward with them, but I guess they must have seen something special in me. But, tonight I started to find them a little less awkward. Conversations with the girls was flowing smoothly and two of the girls I talked to found my job this summer really interesting (most people give me grossed out looks) and kept asking me questions about it, which was really important to me since I love medicine and all the weird little things that go along with it. I will admit I was a little disappointed with their skit. It felt forced and awkward and it looked like they didn’t practice it at all. I still wasn’t entirely sure about them though. I loved the fact that they were interested in talking to me about something so close to my heart but I didn’t want to go all the way through with them only to find out that they really were nothing but a group of party girls.

Conversation at Rimmel was more difficult than usual. I was really worn out trying to come up with questions and was thankful when a girl decided to talk my ear off rather than be like “Any questions?” However, I felt completely at ease with them. I wouldn’t say an at home kind of ease, but I didn’t feel as if I really had to impress anybody. Their skit was absolutely adorable! It was full of songs and energy and even if a girl made a mistake it wasn’t so awkwardly and obviously noticeable like any mistakes in Wet N Wild’s were. I did decide to test a few girls in the chapter though. Since I was so impressed at the about of interest I received over something that meant a lot to me at the last party, I decided to bring it up around a few of the girls here. I was very disappointed when it didn’t get past “that’s interesting”. I know it sounds weird and a little gross but I do love to talk about stuff like that. So, I started to second guess if they were really a good fit with me if I couldn’t be myself in that area.

Once again I didn’t have to worry about choosing which chapters to pass on to go to for Pref night. My rankings pretty much had to be…
1.Rimmel
1. Wet N Wild

[drgnlady]

Please do not forget to tell us what "that one thing" is that you like to talk about. Otherwise, there will be some ridiculous guessing games!!!

[IHeartSephora]

Haha. I was trying to be a little vague since people sometimes get squimish. I am like addictted to medical facts. I'm known by my friends to just randomly pop in with something new research has found. And my job over the summer was in a research lab working with rats, which just saying the word "rat" does in fact get some negative reactions. So, when people asked me about my summer job I kept it pretty vague saying I worked for a lab and with rats. But, the one chapter really wanted to know more about it which in turn got me excited. LOL.

[chitown]

Originally Posted by IHeartSephora

Haha. I was trying to be a little vague since people sometimes get squimish. I am like addictted to medical facts. I'm known by my friends to just randomly pop in with something new research has found. And my job over the summer was in a research lab working with rats, which just saying the word "rat" does in fact get some negative reactions. So, when people asked me about my summer job I kept it pretty vague saying I worked for a lab and with rats. But, the one chapter really wanted to know more about it which in turn got me excited. LOL.

I can see how that could get awkward to talk about during recruitment-but at least you are doing something in your field...in other news- I really need to know where you ended up now. Kthanks.

[MidwayManiac]

Thanks for sharing about the rats. It really does sound interesting. I thought maybe you worked in a morgue . . . so I was to relieved to hear it was only rats.

[chitown]

Originally Posted by MidwayManiac

Thanks for sharing about the rats. It really does sound interesting. I thought maybe you worked in a morgue . . . so I was to relieved to hear it was only rats.

I thought morgue too- hasn't that happened in a recruitment thread before?

[IHeartSephora]

Originally Posted by MidwayManiac

Thanks for sharing about the rats. It really does sound interesting. I thought maybe you worked in a morgue . . . so I was to relieved to hear it was only rats.

Oh no no no. Not at all into that. And even though it might have been a faux pas to even bring up working with rats to these girls, I at least know enough to make something up as a job rather to say I worked in a morgue if that were the case.

[brokengymnast75]

I would love to know where you ended up

So if you could continue, like, now?

[bostongreek]

Originally Posted by MidwayManiac

Thanks for sharing about the rats. It really does sound interesting. I thought maybe you worked in a morgue . . . so I was to relieved to hear it was only rats.

Haha morgue makes me think of Drop Dead Gorgeous where Kirsten Dunst's character had a job putting make up on dead people. That would be fun to explain and recruitment.

[DubaiSis]

My rush crush was a mortuary science major. We had a great conversation and when I got bumped I thought my sister was going to kill me. It took her a bit to figure out why we were talking about mortuaries during RUSH. Thankfully she was a girl who was able to talk about more than her major since most girls would have been very uncomfortable by that.

[IHeartSephora]

So I guess I should have held off and not made my recruitment story a live one, and waited to see what the ending was.

Tonight is pref night but I got called in for a meeting with my gamma chi this afternoon and told that I was not extended an invitation to anywhere. I am completely and utterly crushed.

Sorry to report that this tale does not have a happy ending.