WaterChild's Fall 2007 Recruitment

[FSUZeta]

agree with the other moms. i would have been in a panic if it had not heard from my child in a week and did not know that their phone had been confisctaed. i would think that taking the phones away might had increased the tent talk, since the pnms only had each other to share observations with.

[WaterChild]

We were given an hour or so to call our family and friends and tell them that we would not have phone access. Our parents had been told ahead of time not to call us, but instead that if they needed to contact us in case of emergency to call the Dean of Students.

I don't think that anyone dropped because of this. If they had, they would have had nothing to do for five days while everyone else on campus was rushing.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by WaterChild

I wore olive green Bermuda shorts (it was August, remember), a white polo shirt, and brown leather sandals.

Fate?

[Just interested]

My thoughts, exactly!!!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by WaterChild

I had a fairly good time at this house until I got into a conversation with someone about musicians and she struck me as extraordinarily uninformed. It sounds snobby, but because of this I left Chunky Monkey feeling unimpressed.

OMG, we must be twins. I can't deal w/ people who are musically stupid AT ALL. I think I probably would have just made the Tori Spelling face and stood there in shock.

As far as the cell phone policy, I can see the value, but I definitely think the rushees and not just the parents should have known ahead of time - not been told an hour before.

[WaterChild]

Since my entire recruitment group lived in a hall in one of the dorm buildings with our Rho Chis during recruitment week, the Rho Chis woke us about in the middle of the night as they received our schedules for the next day. It was rough being woken up in the wee hours of the morning, but it was nice to have the opportunity to sleep off any upsetting news. It was upsetting news indeed that I received that morning. We could attend a maximum of seven parties. My list included:

Everything But The…
Chunky Monkey
Phish Food
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Chubby Hubby

I was incredibly disappointed that I would not be revisiting Half Baked or Karamel Sutra. I went back to sleep and when I woke back up in the morning I wore a flowy white skirt, a yellow polka dotted tee shirt, and a pair of gold flats.

Everything But The…- When I walked in, I was delighted to discover that the girl who met me at the door was the same girl that I had liked the previous day. This time, we got to actually talk one on one. She gave a very thorough tour of the house. I liked the house a lot, and I especially liked the fact that it has a back yard. The rooms were cute. As I was given a tour, I could completely see myself living there.

Chunky Monkey- I was met at the door by an adorable, bouncy redhead. She was really enthusiastic about her home and we got along really well. She introduced me to her big during the tour, and I liked her a lot too. The whole house was super cute. A lot of it had been redone recently and it had certainly been redone well. I was so excited about Chunky Monkey, I tried a little too hard and I felt like I was coming across as fake the whole time.

Phish Food- Instead of individual house tours, this sorority gave group tours that lasted one third of the party. One third was spent chatting with a member, and one third was spent playing spoons with a group of members and PNMs. During the game of spoons, the person without a spoon had to answer an icebreaker question drawn from a little cup. It was cute. The house was simple, but sometimes I like simple. It had little touches that I found nice. I really liked the girl that gave the house tour to my group.

Pumpkin Cheesecake- I’ll start by saying that this sorority has the most beautiful and enormous house on campus. I’d actually gotten a tour of this house during a campus visit the previous spring, but I really enjoyed looking at everything again. Unfortunately, the member giving me the tour and I really didn’t click. We had quite a few awkward moments, and I was disappointed because I really loved the building itself.

Chubby Hubby- This sorority didn’t have a house during the fall semester due to a slight tragedy that occurred just before recruitment began. (Well, everyone can figure out which one this is now). So, their recruitment was held in a conference room in the Student Union Building, which is right by Greek Row. This party was a little weird. We played a game of bingo and talked a little. I was actually paired with the best friend of the girl that I know from home. We sat with the girl that I know and her PNM. Before she went to college, this girl was incredibly intelligent, down to earth, and had gorgeous dark brown hair. This time, the girl had platinum blond hair and her personally seemed just as artificial as the shade of her hair. I felt let down by this. As I looked around, most of the group seemed really fake to me.

After all the parties were over, we headed to rank. The next day, we could attend a maximum of four houses.

1. Chunky Monkey
2. Phish Food
3. Everything But The…
4. Pumpkin Cheesecake

5. Chubby Hubby

[LucyKKG]

Bummer about Half Baked and Karamel Sutra, but it seems like you enjoyed yourself a lot more than you thought you would at most of the remaining houses.

[VandalSquirrel]

I'll wait until the thread is over to address any more cellphone/internet controversy. I'm an alumna so I am not involved in any of the decision making by the local Panhellenic, and I trust that the chapter representatives and chapter advisers are fully informed and making decisions that they feel are appropriate. I've asked sisters who came through in 2005 and 2006 what the phone and internet policies were then, and will have a better answer with more details.

Back to you Waterchild...

[WaterChild]

I'm speedy tonight. Here's the next installment.

My Rho Chi woke me up somewhere close to 2 in the morning to hand me my schedule. On it was only:

Everything But The…
Phish Food

What? Where was Chunky Monkey? I thought it had gone so well. I was horrified that only two sororities had invited me back. Even the two that I hadn’t liked as much didn’t want to see me again. I went back to bed and cried myself to sleep. I debated just dropping out because I was afraid that the other two groups would drop me as well, and I didn’t want to be completely rejected. However, I woke up in the morning, put on a brown sundress and some heels, and decided to face the day.

Everything But The…- I was met by a tall blond tall girl and taken into the dining room to begin working on the craft. It was rather simple. We were just coloring pictures. The girl and I had a lot in common, including choir, an interest in rock climbing, and a few of the same favorite movies. I felt really comfortable talking to her. I then was taken into a living room to meet another girl. I discovered that she, like I, was in the marching band! We chatted a bit about that. We got along very well also. Then, we watched a short film about the Everything But The…’s philanthropy. I wasn’t very impressed with it.

Phish Food- As I walked in, a girl who had gone to my high school that I had never actually spoken with met me at the door. We have a lot of friends in common, and it was really comforting to finally sit down and just talk to someone who had come from the same place that I did. (I was the only girl from my graduating class to rush at my university.) We actually got along really well, and the time flew by at Phish Food. I didn’t even do the craft I was so into our conversation! During the party, I also heard about Phish Food’s philanthropy. I was excited because it’s something that I’m really passionate about. I was also told about a motto of the sorority, and I was touched deeply by it.


After the parties, we once again headed to rankings. I ranked the two, even though it didn’t really matter, and I hoped that neither would drop me. We could attend a maximum of two the next day at preference.

1. Phish Food
2. Everything But The…

[WaterChild]

Thanks VandalSquirrel for holding off on the cell phone thing.

[nittanyalum]

^^^D'oh! Tease! I clicked 'new posts' and saw your name again and thought "yay! another installment!!"

[WaterChild]

Well, I posted one about two minutes earlier, so I'm not THAT much of a tease

[nittanyalum]

^^^I know!!!! That's what got me fooled into thinking there'd be more there again!!!

[WaterChild]

My Rho Chi woke me up somewhere close to three am and handed me my schedule. I was excited to see that my schedule read:

Phish Food
Everything But The…

I hadn’t been cut! Finally, I had a full schedule.

Roommate and I woke up early to get extra pretty for the preference parties. I wore a white strapless dress covered with giant yellow polka dots, vintage from the 80s. It sounds terrible, but it’s actually an amazing dress. During breakfast, a girl in my recruitment group that I had become quite close with and I discovered that we had identical schedules for the day.

Phish Food- The girl from home met me at the door! We had a long chat about the principles of Phish Food. I told her that I was certain that I could live up to them. The ceremony was beautiful, and I was close to tears. After I left, I was pretty sure that Phish Food was the house for me, but I still had one party to go.

Everything But The…- Here, I was put with a girl who I had never met before. This disappointed me. We got along great, though. She reminded me a lot of Mandy Moore. I had a fantastic time at this preference party as well. I also found the ceremony here to be beautiful.

At the end of the day, everyone headed back to rank. I wasn’t sure what to do. There was just one member in particular at Phish Food that I loved, but I got along really well with a lot of the Everything But The…s. Both of the houses were homey to me. I actually liked the idea of the smaller numbers of the Everything But The…s because I felt that the sisterhood might be tighter. I thought about the national sorority and everything that the groups stand for. Eventually, I decided that the ideals of Phish Food were really the ideals that I wanted to live up to as a person. I also considered that I felt more strongly about the organizations that the Phish Foods support through philanthropy.

I told the Rho Chi at the computer:

1. Phish Food
2. Everything But The…

My Rho Chis told us that they would only wake us up in the middle of the night if we did NOT receive a bid.

[LucyKKG]

Ugh, I hate the middle of the night thing! Oh, but I think it's great that you took the national's ideals into mind when ranking the chapters. I know chapters can vary a lot by school, but they are obviously part of the same org on a national level.