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'Potential'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Jun 17, 2019 3:05:00 pm PDT #8826 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

hivemind ? - a friend's daughter is off to college in the fall and they just made a post on FB that she is wanting to RUSH in the fall and would like letters of recommendation for sororities and then listed like a dozen.

Don't you usually wait to see what the houses are like on a campus before deciding to RUSH?

This seems ass backwards.


Steph L. - Jun 17, 2019 3:13:06 pm PDT #8827 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Don't you usually wait to see what the houses are like on a campus before deciding to RUSH?

At my college, sorority rush was always the week before classes started in August. The idea was that rush week is how you get to know the sororities. (At Miami, there were like 4 rounds of rush, so in theory that was enough time to get an idea of what the sororities are like.)

Your idea makes more sense, though. Greek rush should be later into the first semester, or even the beginning of the second semester.


Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2019 3:18:57 pm PDT #8828 of 30019
brillig

At my school there was a general extracurricular festival the first week of the year, with the clubs and greek groups. You chatted with the greeks, then did rush later for those you were interested in.


msbelle - Jun 17, 2019 3:19:15 pm PDT #8829 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

oh huh, well there you go.

I also thought some schools did not let people rush until second year.


flea - Jun 17, 2019 3:25:12 pm PDT #8830 of 30019
information libertarian

At the University of Georgia sorority rush was the week before school started. But then, a lot of students arrived on campus knowing what they wanted, because of family members or older friends.

At Duke it was the start of second semester.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2019 3:46:34 pm PDT #8831 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Hilariously, the one fraternity I looked into during rush turned out to be the university's Animal House equivalent. Let's just say there was a bit of a mismatch.


Jesse - Jun 17, 2019 4:32:29 pm PDT #8832 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We had fraternity rush in the fall, but sororities didn't do it until second semester.

You guys, I've been meaning to buy some of that double-stick tape because my cat is tearing up my furniture, but then PetCo sent me a coupon for $30 off $100, no food included, so now I'm getting All The Cat Stuff delivered to my house. Because I couldn't bring myself to buy an enormous tower, I'm getting several other ridiculous items.


-t - Jun 17, 2019 4:47:35 pm PDT #8833 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay cat stuff!

It took me a minute to remember what "rush" means in that context. Entirely outside my experience


Allyson - Jun 17, 2019 5:50:28 pm PDT #8834 of 30019
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Really starting to panic about the prospect of becoming a parent. There's so much to do, and figure out. Just, I worry all the time.


sj - Jun 17, 2019 5:53:24 pm PDT #8835 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Worrying all the time is great preparation for being a parent. Seriously though, Allyson, you're going to be a wonderful mom.