UIUC Rush Story

[littlemissvixen]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

I'm just saying I'd rather have average looking sisters that are great than to use their looks as a #1 factor.

Grow up.

And nice job on deleting your posts at least the first one will be in GC history forever since a few people quoted it

Average doesn't equal great or nice or anything else. Why are people so offended by this?? I've seen posts from people on here boasting about how their sorority sisters are "Barbie-like" and then posting (some airbrushed) pictures. While I'm not offended by that and think it's fun, seems like most of you would be.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by littlemissvixen

Average doesn't equal great or nice or anything else.

You're right it doesn't

Being a "gorgeous" chapter with proper fitting polos, perfect pedicures and real pearls doesn't = a great sister either.



Strangely enough, that is what you are making your judgements on.

[UGAalum94]

Aw, man! We're going to have to quit doing this. We provoke the most interesting writers into quiting.

:crossing my fingers that it's just a flounce:

[AngieWashU]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Aw, man! We're going to have to quit doing this. We provoke the most interesting writers into quiting.

:crossing my fingers that it's just a flounce:

I definitely hope she'll come back too!

[sarasmile]

I told you people not to chase her off and ruin the entertainment.

Sigh...well, I suppose that it was in her best interests to delete her posts, so that she doesn't hurt her rush chances. But the entertainment factor is gone.

(Though she can always come back after rush is over and spill all the rest... )

I don't think that her approach to rush is all that different than a lot of PNMs. It wasn't the approach I took, to be certain, but its not entirely fair to jump on her for being honest about what a lot of other people do too. (Even if its not necessarily a way of characterizing chapters that we might personally agree with, we all know that's now a lot of other people think.)

BTW - I know 11-19 weren't quoted, but if y'all want I can put the descriptions back up. We have an application on our computer that captures screen shots, and I just happened to have it running for work purposes when I browsed the thread earlier.

(You'll have to give me a little time though, b/c I'm still finishing my project and won't be able to re-create them until then.)

[AnatraAmore]

Wow... I really need to get a job with internet access... or something. A girl goes to work all day and comes home to find the major entertainment of my night gone. And this thread was just getting interesting...


<crosses fingers that OP comes back... or that we have another set of Sweet Valley Twins >

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by littlemissvixen

It's not like I'm complaining that they weren't born skinny with big boobs and blonde hair or whatever... lol that would be a funny looking baby.

This part almost makes up for the shallowness. It would be a funny looking baby, indeed, and your comment made me snort.

But just try to walk the line between offensively shallow and just truthful a little more carefully because oftentimes, people don't end up getting the groups that they liked first and second round when the whole thing is over.

Give yourself some room to like a normal/ average group if that's who you end up getting a bid from.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by sarasmile

I told you people not to chase her off and ruin the entertainment.

Sorry, I thought it only fair that the houses could easily find what she wrote about them.

[sarasmile]

Originally Posted by littlemissvixen

that's something they chose to wear.

Well, its something that the rush chair chose for them to wear...the individual members may or may not have liked the outfit choice, but had to go along with it anyhow.

(Trust me...there's at least a handful of members in every chapter who don't care for the outfits picked out, for whatever reason. But, we all agree during rush to follow certain guidelines - our individuality is expressed later on. You'll see many threads in the recruitment forum about that sort of thing.)

[sarasmile]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Sorry, I thought it only fair that the houses could easily find what she wrote about them.

True. Sometimes we all need reminders as to how random Internet stuff can affect our real lives.

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Pretty please!!!

I made a deal with littlemissvixen not to re-post the descriptions until Sunday (the end of recruitment). But you'll definitely get to see them again - just not tonight.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by littlemissvixen

Thanks. I love my first round sororities so much though! I will be much more open now that it is narrowed down to 6 and I can actually get to know everyone.

Did someone just take some lithium?

[WhiteDaisy128]

So I guess you are not telling us which 6 you are going back to...code names, of course.

This thread is highly entertaining!

[AOII Angel]

littlemissvixen, I know it seems like people are jumping all over you, but it's because you haven't grasped the priniciple idea here. Sometimes things are okay to think, but they are usually best left unsaid (or untyped!) It's called tact. We may all think that the groups outfits were tacky, but most of us would keep that to ourselves. The reason is that we understand that what's on the outside often does not reflect on the inside so making snap judgements usually does us no good. That's why rush is more than one party long. It does take more than 25 minutes to get a feeling about a chapter. You may have narrowed your choices down according to physical attributes...that's fine if that's the most important piece of the puzzle to you. We just have a lot more years and a lot more experience under our belts. We've seen girls with your attitude come and go, having shot themselves in the foot by not watching what they say. You've done good by rethinking what you've posted so far. I just hope that the sorority you pledge is not one that will later have the opportunity to read nasty things you've written about them without even knowing anything about them. Don't discount this as a possibility...hopefully it won't happen to you, but we've seen it happen NUMEROUS time! Best of luck with the rest of recruitment....I'm sure none of us are really wishing you anything but success (well maybe only a few!)

[littlemissvixen]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

littlemissvixen, I know it seems like people are jumping all over you, but it's because you haven't grasped the priniciple idea here. Sometimes things are okay to think, but they are usually best left unsaid (or untyped!) It's called tact. We may all think that the groups outfits were tacky, but most of us would keep that to ourselves. The reason is that we understand that what's on the outside often does not reflect on the inside so making snap judgements usually does us no good. That's why rush is more than one party long. It does take more than 25 minutes to get a feeling about a chapter. You may have narrowed your choices down according to physical attributes...that's fine if that's the most important piece of the puzzle to you. We just have a lot more years and a lot more experience under our belts. We've seen girls with your attitude come and go, having shot themselves in the foot by not watching what they say. You've done good by rethinking what you've posted so far. I just hope that the sorority you pledge is not one that will later have the opportunity to read nasty things you've written about them without even knowing anything about them. Don't discount this as a possibility...hopefully it won't happen to you, but we've seen it happen NUMEROUS time! Best of luck with the rest of recruitment....I'm sure none of us are really wishing you anything but success (well maybe only a few!)

Thank you for the advice, and I'm taking it. I honestly haven't said anything remotely bad about girls who are still in the running/who I am still in the running with, so my future sisters don't need to worry

[ZTA72]

I hope that you will take this in the spirit that it was intended:

I told my daughters ( who had a VERY sucessful rush )
Never say anything negative about anyone.....you never know who is watching, reading, listening...or forwarding

It is not impressive to read negatives about a group or anyone....

ZTA72