**Project 365 Edition: Freshman Year in College. Starting 8/20/2011**

This blog was originally a blog devoted to a great high school class of mine, but I've decided to transform it into a Project 365 blog (a photo blog where you post a picture everyday for a year). I fell in love with the layout of crayons and cuteness (and wasn't savvy enough to redo it) that I'm just staying here! My teachers may very well still get notifications when I post, but whatever. If so, hi Bolos and O'Connor! :P Feel free to un-link yourself if you get bored/annoyed of me...

I'm not sure how keeping up with the daily posts will work for me (especially seeing my track record of weekly posts in that class) but I thought it would be a neat idea to at least get a feeling of the first year of college, of freshman year. Making new friends, new habits, and living a new life. Also apparently being corny as hell. Maybe this new life can include actually posting each day. Probably not. Let's cross our fingers for me?


Sunday, January 10, 2010

RUSH!

Many people go to colleges hoping and dreaming to become part of a soroity or a fraternity. They are thought of as the epitome of college party life. The "in crowd", the only way to make friends. My sister has recently transfered colleges and has decided to try out this whole idea of soroities. I never thought of her as a soroity girl, but then I realized that colleges have tried to change this now.

There are 12 sororities at her school and everyone of them claims there is a "sorority for everyone". That each sorority has a different type of girl, creating a nice clique and friendship circle. There are even just charity sororities. Well this is all well and good I really wonder if that's true. My sister is undergoing her week of rush right now, where she goes to all these parties, meets people, and tries to showcase herself as someone the soroity would want. After each day of partying each girl is either invited back to a soroity or not. As I hear, apparently the first invite back should be between 6-8 sororities. I don't know too much about the process but to me, there must be many, many girls there. All trying to be there best. Be fun, inviting people. And in ONE day the girls already in the soroity can go back (after the party) and decide which girls they will invite back? It's like RUSH! show me who you are in....*uhh I have 2 minutes with this girl* 2 minutes of awkward talking! Go! The girls have one night to show if they have a personality fit for the soroity. One night. Unless they get invited back that is. Too me, that's too soon.

I haven't asked my sister much about what's going on, but my mom explained to me that she was told "not to talk to the press". The press? I didn't realize this was such a pressing issue for the press. But even then, the bigger question here is why? For secret reasons that is. This whole process is suppsed to be very secretive and mysterious. Which brings the soroities back to looking like cliquey groups of friends who dont talk to anyone else but the people in their soroity. Now I know this isn't true but this whole idea still interests me. It almost makes me want to rush a soroity just to see what craziness goes on! Or if there even IS craziness.

What do you know about sororities/fraternities? Sibling part of one, want to be part of one (and why)?
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