Kovixen

Today rush, aka recruitment, starts at Auburn University. This is the official start of the rush season for me. And boy am I excited. Nothing gets my blood pumping like a rush thread on GC or a rush workshop at a school I'm helping. I was a Recruitment Advisor for 4 years, started training with the best in my sorority the moment I graduated. I was an awful rusher when I was a collegiate because I took the whole thing so seriously and was very awkward when trying to impress people I had never met. But as an RA, I think I did a decent job. It was hard at URI the first few years because I was in the chapter with these sisters, so they didn't see me as an authority figure at all. But since I started with them, they have made quota every year and are continuously getting stronger.

At Bentley, "formal" is in the spring semester. Their version of formal is a slightly organized version of informal to me. I hate it. I want a quota and release figures and 200 women or more signed up. My chapter at Bentley doesn't even have 20 women active right now. Totally different than what I dealt with at URI. However, I think I have finally started to understand this strange school, and I am so excited about their COB this fall I can barely stand it. The only problem with them is that since the chapter is so small (and all the chapters on this campus are, it's not just them), I don't hide in the rush room easily. That means I can't really stand there and look around and try to run things. Usually for COB I just leave and pray for the best. That is hard to do, but I don't want to be the creepy advisor that scares all the rushees.

Tina wrote a bit on her experience joining Theta recently. I loved this post, it was so interesting for me to read. I love to hear what happens in other school's rushes, why they join the chapter they do, why they don't like the other chapters, what formal rush is like there, etc. She has promised to write about why she isn't active anymore, and that is even more interesting to me. As we all know, my sorority is my life. It's my job and it's my friends. It is a part of me and always will be. Many collegiate women do not join alum chapters, instead being inactive after graduation. Often, they don't come back into the swing of things for many years, if ever. I've never understood this because when I do something, I either do it entirely or not at all. Why join a group for life and disappear after four years? In reality though, I am unfortunately in the minority here, especially in the Northeast. Very few women continue to give back to their group. I can understand why, they need to get something in return and often times may not feel that they receive anything. But I don't have contact with these women, I see the alums who are also active, who pay their dues and come to events and advise local chapters. So I am totally excited to hear what Tina has to say about Theta. I think it will be educational for me, hopefully something I can bring back to my alum chapter (where I am VP Programming).

Also, I found this post on Words For My Enjoyment very interesting. I have not yet been asked what my traffic is, but I certainly see this type of question coming up more and more in the future, especially once Shirt Snob gets moving. I certainly find my stats fascinating, but I don't entirely know how to read them. Well, Peter has explained it all to me. But do I actually care more about hits or visits or Kbytes (or something like that)? I go by visits because it's yellow and pretty. But I don't really care, I'd write if no one read anything. In fact, I'd probably be more open about my life if no one read it.