Rush Rush Rush

I have to move back into The House in a few days, which is difficult enough in itself, but now I'm being swamped with Rush planning. Luckily, since The Social Chair and I hold the most clout on The Rush Board besides The Rush Chair herself, we redistribute our long to do lists to the younger girls. We plan, they execute.

Most reputable houses hold a rush camp before rush to talk about how to recruit new members. Generally, the youngest pledge classes have to actually take part in rush camp. If you've been in The House a while and you aren't socially incompetent, we let you just spend the time moving in and decorating your room because it's inefficient to make you sit through Rush Camp four times over just because the newest members haven't gone through it before. It works out well... each member of The Rush Board is in charge of basically teaching one day of camp so we still have four days to ourselves. My day focuses around fashion and hair, which is by far the easiest day to handle... especially most people have already finished their clothing purchases for Rush.

The Social Chair has one of the suckier days. She's great at socializing... so she's been pegged with How To Talk To Rushees and Make Them Want To Join as well as its counterpart, How To Unrecruit A Rushee Who Will Not Fit In With The Rest of The House. It's a fine balance since while we are a pretty Greek campus, we're definitely not as Greek as say... The State School and we are definitely more of an academic/research oriented campus.... which means we do get a higher percentage of Awkwards who decide suddenly that they don't want to be awkward anymore and try to escape their awkwardness by joining a sorority. And since it's partially a numbers game, Awkwards do manage to get in sometimes... which means we have to do our best to recruit the girls we like and unrecruit the girls we don't.

It's irritating that The House has our own collection of Awkwards. Mostly because they don't understand this concept of unrecruiting. Unrecruiting is just as important as recruiting, even more so to some degree since we don't want our rep to be flushed down the toilet. I certainly don't want to be associated with The Girls Who Eat Their Feelings House.