Rush continues...

Round two was the beginning of ‘crunch time’. It was the first round that we started getting cut from sororities. Girls anxiously grabbed their schedules to gaze upon what sororities had asked them back, and which had ‘dropped them’. Looks of excitement and disappointment flashed across our faces as we resigned ourselves to our ‘new’ pool of options. In spite of this the atmosphere was still bubbly and happy as a wave of girls, all in matching PanHellenic recruitment shirts headed back for Round 2. There was definitely even more enthusiasm from the sororities themselves as we went to their ‘parties’ for a second time… this time to hear about their philanthropies. No, in spite of popular international opinion sorority girls are not dumb, nor spend all their time preening and applying more lip-gloss. Philanthropies are a significant part of sorority life; with groups at Duke raising tens of thousands of dollars for really fantastic causes. The day was long, no denying it, if called back to 7 sororities you would start your day at 1:00pm and finish at 10:00pm (we were all a little hoarse). Making decisions to rank 2 sororities as 'bottom' was really hard, as it still felt a little early to be sure of my opinions of each one’s ‘feel’. Given that I am the most indecisive human on the planet (with the exception of my mother) I may or may not have been the last girl filling out pref cards in the conference centre.

There is 5 days break until we find out what our next lot of cuts are, and girls are desperately trying not to get their hearts set on ‘the one’. It’s hard not to wish that you won’t get dropped from a particular one or two, but for the moment I am trying to keep an open mind. (Still fingers crossed!!)

Until round 3 – “Sisterhood Round”!