A West Coast Recruitment!

[TriDDDeltgirl]

Since the Arizona heat is so intense and rush isn’t as strict at Arizona, DD3, the youngest of my children and the love of my life, decided on wearing clothes that showed more skin. We ended up ordering from stores online. She’s 5’10 and so the first disaster was when everything arrived and had to be tailored on the spot by grandma as the car was being packed up.

Both sets of grandparents, 4 sets of aunts and uncles, and her godparents all assisted in getting her dorm styled and, due to all the wonderful tips I found on here from you all, everything went smoothly.

The houses:

Saguaro
Route 66
Turquoise
Wild Wild West
Mountain View
Wildflowers
Sunrise
Sunset
Scorpion
Roadrunner
Palm Trees
Desert Breeze

Set One:

Route 66:
Her first house. She liked Route 66 and the majority of the girls were religious and although DD3 liked the vibes, she felt like she wouldn’t fit in. An active said “think of us as your practice house! This is my first time rushing someone and your first time going through rush. We’ll get through it together!” and she gave DD3 the confidence that she needed.

Saguaro:
The newest chapter on campus, DD3 felt that she didn’t belong at first but became comfortable and that the conversations didn’t flow easily but were well thought out. She did, however, think that the girls were some of the nicest people that she’d ever met and they had a charm to them. She thought that the girls gave off very positive vibes and it was easy to relax.

Turquoise:
The Instagram famous house, they’d had their eye on DD3 all summer, liking and commenting on her Instagram photos. DD3 thought that every sister that she looked too much like her (white and thin) and that while the conversations flowed naturally, the girls knew enough about DD3 to make her feel almost uncomfortable.

Wild Wild West:
DD3 had a wild time at WWW. She met great girls and had great conversations. She also liked that their philanthropy involves exercise and since her goal is to achieve 50 hours of community service per semester, she was focused on that.

Mountain View:
She loved the girls and the house, had great convos, and, for some reason, had a display of seated tap dancing from a sister. She also has personal experience with their philanthropy. She mentioned that she didn’t feel a personal click but acknowledged that since she had just met the house, she couldn’t be sure.

Wildflowers:
The sisters of Wildflowers followed DD3 on instagram as soon as she had put “Zona ‘22” in her bio. The house of the Wildflowers happens to be huge and the girls that DD3 met were all beautiful inside and out. She had long in-depth conversations with girls she really loved, She has experience with their philanthropy and loves everything about the sisterhood that she can know about.

Desert Breeze:
The ladies of desert breeze were a hit with DD3. She had a series of great conversations with a lot of great girls and liked the theme of the house and all of the special elements of the sorority that were in every part of the area of the house that she saw.

Scorpion:
“Mom! I stepped and I heard a crunch and I looked down and it was a scorpion!!!” was the first thing she told me. The ladies of scorpion pulled some of the same things that the ladies of turquoise did, but they’d messaged her privately for months (messages that she showed me that she’d never responded to so she could make sure that Rush was fair for everyone). The ladies of Scorpion did everything short of offering DD3 a pin right on the spot (they did say that she had better buy a pledge pin). She wasn’t a fan of the Scorpions at all and thought that they were really aggressive with their rush tactics.

Roadrunner:
She liked roadrunner but she felt like she was botching conversations. She felt like she kind of fit in but not completely and that the roadrunners were trying their hardest but since it was the end of the day, she was on her last burst of energy.

Palm trees:
She liked the girls and thought that they were welcoming and beautiful, she thought she had great conversations, and she loved the way that they held themselves. She also liked that they had a system in place so she met a lot of people and shook a lot of hands.

Sunrise:
She said that sunrise kind of blended in with all of the other houses and that they were not as memorable. They didn’t exactly stick out to her in any special ways but she said that the girls were very nice and very kind.

Sunset:
The final house she visited for set one. She had a dang good time and loved being around them. They made her feel at ease and like she was part of the sisterhood already. She really really really liked them.

Before rush had begun, Grandma had sent her three questions that she had to answer about each sorority before she ranked them.

1: Is their philanthropy a philanthropy that you could support for your entire life?

2: Are these girls good people? Are they the type of people who will protect you and cherish you? Do they make you feel safe?

3: Do you see yourself achieving the long term and short term goals that you’ve set for yourself if you join this sisterhood? Do you see yourself making positive steps forwards with the help of these sisters?

Set one ended and set two began.