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Why Rush Week Is the Best, And Worst, Week Of The Year

Sorority recruitment is so worth is but so overwhelming.

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Why Rush Week Is the Best, And Worst, Week Of The Year
Haley Cromer

People who aren't in greek life consider sorority girls as a breed of their own.

Which isn't really offensive since we do live up to a lot of the stereotypes given to us; yes we really do sing songs and hold hands in pictures and rep our sorority letters wherever we go, but that's not all we do. As a matter of fact, we're actually decent down to earth human beings who do normal people things to. Unfortunately, all of that kinda gets forgotten during formal recruitment as we regain our reputation as sorority zombies. Trust me though, even though we may look crazy it's all worth it in the end!

When potential new members stand outside our chapter's door our president greets them with a Colgate smile, hands behind her back and a scripted speech all within specific timing. It's weird. It's intimidating. We wish this could be taken more lightly but we're just following the rules from the sorority Gods. We will sing to you and the songs get creepier by the day, we don't really know why we do this but it's actually pretty fun for us to jump around until it's 100 degrees out and we've sung the same song 20 times that day. They are catchy though, I'll tell you that much.

Then we will introduce ourselves and talk in a high pitch voice, this isn't really a requirement it just comes naturally for some reason. Our sisters will come squat next to us and interrupt conversation, we make it seem so casual but it's really frightening and very rehearsed. We will have our full hair and makeup done, nails painted and sometimes even spray tans and teeth whitened and you'll probably be intimidated but we're definitely more intimidated by you.

We'll show you our house which will be spotless and you'll probably wonder if it is always so neat but we spent weeks getting it ready for you. It will be decked out in our chapter's letters and pictures of our sisters and you'll ask yourself if it's staged or if we always have that much fun. The answer is YES!!! That part is real! Our recruitment video probably looks acted out but surprisingly that's some of the realest footage you'll see during rush. Believe it or not the jumping and dancing around is completely genuine... again back to stereotypes, we actually do that.

On bid day it'll start to get real, you'll feel like it's Christmas and wonder if you're more nervous or excited and we won't know either. You'll get a glimpse of more genuine conversation and start to see our realness as the week goes on but bid day is as real as it gets. You'll be one of us now. All those creepy smiles and the intimidation of a roomful of girls singing weird songs to you and squatting by your side will finally be worth it! That's when you'll know that we're much more than just jumping and singing girls who walk around with their arms behind their back. The week you spent in the heat with 8 hour days, sweating and repeating your major over and over won't even seem that bad because you've found best friends for life.


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