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Dirty Rush: Graduating Seniors give advice to incoming potential new members, so listen up! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority life with
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Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia Judice.
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Speaker 2: Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Kessler.
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Speaker 1: Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush.
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Speaker 1: My name is Jia Judice, and today I'm speaking with
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Speaker 1: two masters students here to spill what they wish they
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Speaker 1: knew before their freshman year rushing. So today I am
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Speaker 1: joined by e Liza. She is a master's student right now,
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Speaker 1: but in her undergrad she was in a sorority.
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Speaker 2: So today I am.
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Speaker 1: Going to talk to her about what her experience was
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Speaker 1: like and what she wished she knew before rushing. Hey guys,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to Dirty Rush.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jia.
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Speaker 3: Hi, how are you good?
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Speaker 2: How are you good?
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Speaker 3: I'm Laura and I'm Liza.
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Speaker 2: Oh so nice to meet you guys.
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Speaker 1: So you guys are master's students right now about to graduate.
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Speaker 3: Correct, We are going to Texas Christian University right now,
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Speaker 3: and we also got our undergrad here as well.
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Speaker 2: Oh amazing.
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Speaker 1: How has it been and doing your master's program afterwards?
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Speaker 4: It's been really nice to kind of continue to grow
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Speaker 4: in one space and continue to foster connections within our community.
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Speaker 4: I think that's been like super special to be able
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Speaker 4: to stay put and just yeah, yeah, And.
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Speaker 3: I feel like TSU for both of us means like
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Speaker 3: a lot to both of our families. We both have
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Speaker 3: family who went to TSU, so it's it's the best
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Speaker 3: place ever. So it's been great.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing. So what are you guys doing afterwards?
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Speaker 1: What are you guys doing with your masters?
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Speaker 3: So I we both graduate on Saturday, and I'll graduate
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Speaker 3: with my master's in education.
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Speaker 2: Amazing.
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Speaker 3: And I just accepted a job and I'll be teaching
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Speaker 3: first grade in the fall.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations yea.
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Speaker 4: And I am getting my degree in speech language pathology.
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Speaker 2: So my cousin's doing that. That's amazing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
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Speaker 4: It's been in absolute joy and such a gift to
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Speaker 4: be able to pursue this field. But I'll be working
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Speaker 4: in a pediatric private clinic.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's amazing.
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Speaker 1: So you'll have like real one on one time that's incredible.
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Speaker 1: And you're gonna deal with students, which is amazing. And
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Speaker 1: a lot of my friends are teachers and they absolutely
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Speaker 1: love it and they're teaching like younger students as well,
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Speaker 1: so they enjoy.
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Speaker 2: It a lot.
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Speaker 1: Good. Good, Yeah, So what was your sorority involvement through
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Speaker 1: your master's program. Were you guys involved at all or
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Speaker 1: was it mainly just in your undergrad I.
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Speaker 3: Would say mainly in undergrad. For me, I have stayed
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Speaker 3: sort of connected with like my sorority family. I'm very
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Speaker 3: close with my little and she's still nearby, but I
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Speaker 3: would say my my like more involvement in undergrad for sure,
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Speaker 3: I would say the same.
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Speaker 4: I am really close with my family and are my
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Speaker 4: my theta family.
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Speaker 3: I was a Theta and I am.
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Speaker 4: Since I'm still in the area, I've tried to maintain
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Speaker 4: those reallys and so I have somehow managed to go
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Speaker 4: to every single midday since I was at TCU.
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Speaker 2: All of that's so cute, all of.
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Speaker 4: The big littles, and we have like tradition where we
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Speaker 4: go to Joe Te's.
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Speaker 3: We all got tattoos together last year.
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Speaker 4: Like, we are very close and they are some of
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Speaker 4: my biggest blessings from college. So it's been fun to
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Speaker 4: kind of be the like older sister and the one
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Speaker 4: that everybody comes to to advice for.
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Speaker 1: And no, definitely, I mean that's crazy. Your family must
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Speaker 1: be huge then if you're still there and just to
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Speaker 1: watch it all grow that's crazy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a very big family. I rushed twins.
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Speaker 3: I have triplets.
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Speaker 4: Actually, I have three littles and then they all it's
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Speaker 4: like a whole ordeal.
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Speaker 3: But our family is huge.
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Speaker 4: But now I rushed as a sophomore, and so all
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Speaker 4: of my littles rushed as sophomores, and their littles rush
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Speaker 4: just sophomore.
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Speaker 3: So it's like.
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Speaker 4: We're all kind of graduating at the same time. So
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Speaker 4: our family keeps dwindling down. But you know, we're still alive.
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Speaker 4: We're not We're not dead yet.
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Speaker 2: So you said you were a Theta. What sorority were
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Speaker 2: you in?
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Speaker 3: I was a gamified Beta.
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Speaker 1: Okay, amazing. So we're gonna think back to the start.
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Speaker 1: What was your perception of Rush before going into it?
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Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, I Rush was like the scariest thing
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Speaker 3: in the world.
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Speaker 4: Like, especially being in Texas, there's a lot or just
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Speaker 4: like in the South per se, there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: pressure to join a sorority and be in a top
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Speaker 4: house or you know, whatever you want to call it.
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Speaker 4: So going into RUSH was probably like the most nervous
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Speaker 4: I've been in my entire life.
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Speaker 3: And I've had a lot of anxiety for different reasons.
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Speaker 4: So it's just like an unantiquated amount of pressure on
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Speaker 4: like girls coming in to rush.
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Speaker 3: I would agree. I rushed my freshman year, which was
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Speaker 3: the fall of twenty twenty, so it was completely virtual.
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Speaker 3: So that definitely was weird and played a part into
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Speaker 3: like my nerves and excitement towards it. But I was
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Speaker 3: definitely still nervous to a degree. You know. I just
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Speaker 3: wanted to meet people fast and like create connections fast
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Speaker 3: being so far from home. I'm originally from Long Island, Okay,
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Speaker 3: So I just wanted to like find a good group
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Speaker 3: that I had, you know at home.
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Speaker 1: Oh definitely, did you guys always want to rush going
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Speaker 1: into college?
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Speaker 2: If not, what made you decide to rush?
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Speaker 4: I knew I wanted to rush going into college. Again,
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Speaker 4: that's just something like growing up in Texas. That's kind
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Speaker 4: of just like a part of the entire college process
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Speaker 4: where a lot of people is going through recruitment. So
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Speaker 4: I knew that was something I wanted to do, but
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Speaker 4: I did. I had a gap year in between graduating
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Speaker 4: from high school for medical reasons and then transferred. Long
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Speaker 4: story short, I rushed as a sophomore, but was two
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Speaker 4: years older than the girls in my pledge class, so
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Speaker 4: it was just a very different experience.
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Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, did you feel like you were
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Speaker 1: more mature than them or maybe a little behind? Like
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Speaker 1: a little behind, or like how did that make you feel.
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Speaker 4: I and I would say like both, Like I felt
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Speaker 4: again kind of like the older sister to the girls
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Speaker 4: in my pledged class. But then like then I had
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Speaker 4: the girls two PCs above me who are like some
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Speaker 4: of my closer friends that I was able to meet
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Speaker 4: prior to going through rush, And when they graduated, it
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Speaker 4: was really hard because I was like, well, these are
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Speaker 4: the girls that I have associated fato with in my
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Speaker 4: time at TCU with and they're my best friends, and
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Speaker 4: now what do I do? And you know, Laura and
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Speaker 4: I are lucky enough, like we can both testified the
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Speaker 4: fact that like, sorority life isn't everything. And like during
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Speaker 4: college we were in a house where every single one
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Speaker 4: of the roommates was in a different sorority and.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's so common, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So common. But I feel like what you might see
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Speaker 3: online is not that, Like you might get be fed
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Speaker 3: with my oh, my best friends are my sorority sisters.
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Speaker 3: I want to live in the house. I want to
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Speaker 3: like be super involved. And while that might be some
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Speaker 3: people's experience, like like you just said, I feel like
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Speaker 3: more common to have, Like my people were not in
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Speaker 3: my sorority, and that's okay, Like my people were people
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Speaker 3: I'm at, you know, through other ways, and so I
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Speaker 3: just think, while it might seem like it's in all bey'all,
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Speaker 3: it's kind of something like important to know that, like
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Speaker 3: us on the end of it, now, on the other
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Speaker 3: side of it, you actually could meet so many people
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Speaker 3: so many other ways. But because everybody's going everybody's going
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Speaker 3: through it, you feel like you kind of have to
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Speaker 3: like do that and find.
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Speaker 2: And participate in that for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what advice do you wish someone told you
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Speaker 1: before Rush?
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Speaker 3: It's not everything I would say, like not that serious either. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I feel like people or people I spoke to try
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Speaker 3: like kind of made me even more scared of like,
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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, this is so intimidating, Like you know,
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Speaker 3: these girls are only a few years older than you,
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Speaker 3: Like there's not that big of an age difference, and
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Speaker 3: the cheesy saying of like just be yourself is so
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Speaker 3: annoying to hear all the time. But seriously, I mean,
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Speaker 3: why would you want to be anyone but yourself, Like
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Speaker 3: you want to be you know, authentic and find people
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Speaker 3: who are going to match that. So it's not that serious,
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Speaker 3: it's not that deep. Just take a chill pill and
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Speaker 3: like it will all be okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I completely agree.
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Speaker 1: I feel like even when I was a freshman rushing,
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Speaker 1: I would look at the seniors like they were doing
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Speaker 1: it all right and that they were.
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Speaker 2: Such a you know, someone to look up to.
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Speaker 1: And even just looking at the president of my sorority,
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Speaker 1: who when I was rushing, you know, I wanted to be.
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Speaker 1: I really fell in love with Zada, and then I
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Speaker 1: ended up, you know, getting into Zeta, which was great.
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Speaker 1: But I remember looking at her and I thought she
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Speaker 1: was so pretty and it just looked like she had
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Speaker 1: it all together. And just during the rush process, everything
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Speaker 1: was so perfect. But then you realize, like you said,
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Speaker 1: they really are not that much older than you and
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Speaker 1: it's not that serious. And then once joining the sorority. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I want to say, freshman year was probably the most
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Speaker 1: fun I had, and it doesn't you know, your sophomore year,
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Speaker 1: getting into your sorority after midday the whole I want
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Speaker 1: to say, that was the most fun I had. And
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Speaker 1: then it all just is like any other thing, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you get close with your friends, but
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Speaker 1: then you meet girls in so many other different sororities.
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Speaker 1: You're having socials, you're meeting other guys in fraternities, you're
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Speaker 1: meeting the entire Greek life, where then you make friends
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Speaker 1: with everybody else as well, and you realize, Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe I didn't have to be in a sorority, but
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Speaker 1: this definitely helped open doors to meeting people totally.
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Speaker 3: Like I wouldn't have met some of the people that
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Speaker 3: I know and now love if I didn't rush. So
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Speaker 3: it does you know, it is beneficial and it is
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Speaker 3: helpful being like, you know, your first few weeks in
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Speaker 3: a new place.
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Speaker 4: But you were saying, yeah, I think there's also something
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Speaker 4: to be said about like I think any college that
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Speaker 4: you go to, there's this like predetermined set of like
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Speaker 4: houses and regards of rank, and I think that's like
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Speaker 4: a complete fallacy because like you're going to end up
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Speaker 4: in the house that like is suited for you, and
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Speaker 4: that should be like that's your number one, right, and
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Speaker 4: so like I think that was like super important to
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Speaker 4: me going in recognizing that of just like your goal
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Speaker 4: shouldn't be to get in the top house. Your goal
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Speaker 4: should be to get in the house that like suits
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Speaker 4: you best, where people like like love you for who
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Speaker 4: you are and just like want the best for you.
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Speaker 3: So I feel like that is.
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Speaker 4: Super important to kind of like take into your Rush experience,
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Speaker 4: like walk out in noise. Yeah, like you're gonna end
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Speaker 4: up where you're supposed to end up at the end
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Speaker 4: of like at the end of the.
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Speaker 3: Day, Like going through Rush, like I was not talking
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Speaker 3: with other girls really about like what houses they were
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Speaker 3: getting because I was just like, that's just gonna like it's.
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Speaker 1: Going to alter the experience a little bit one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: And they always used to say that during rush too,
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Speaker 1: don't talk about the houses outside of Rush.
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Speaker 2: Make this your make this your experience. You know, be
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Speaker 2: in your own thoughts because it is. It is true,
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Speaker 2: and I know it's hard.
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Speaker 1: It's like when you also have your group of friends
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Speaker 1: when you're going into college, especially meeting.
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Speaker 2: In the dorms or meeting anywhere else.
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Speaker 1: It's very you know, it's hard because you have this
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Speaker 1: A lot of the times you go into college freshman year,
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Speaker 1: you're running around the dorms, knocking on the doors and
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Speaker 1: just meeting people. You get this huge group of friends
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Speaker 1: that by the time you're a senior becomes to.
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Speaker 2: Be this small. But you know, you have this huge.
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Speaker 1: Group of friends when you first get into college thinking
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Speaker 1: that this is the best thing in the world, and
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Speaker 1: you all obviously want to rush the same sorority.
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Speaker 2: And then you rush, and you all end up in
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Speaker 2: different places, and.
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Speaker 1: The people who you really are supposed to stay close
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Speaker 1: with you will and then it just trickles out from there.
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Speaker 3: Right, like everything works itself out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know definitely what shocked you guys the most
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Speaker 1: about the rush process.
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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I feel like being on the opposite end
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Speaker 4: of rush after going through recruitment, it was shocking to
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Speaker 4: recognize that, like girls who are already in a sorority
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Speaker 4: and who are recruiting here ten times more nervous than
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Speaker 4: you could than a P and M or potential new
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Speaker 4: member could ever imagine. Like the pressure is just as
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Speaker 4: high as on the other end.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do remember that as well.
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Speaker 4: Also, like girls remember you, Like I wore a pair
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Speaker 4: of green Zara jeans and I was known as the
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Speaker 4: green pant girl for the remainder across campus, which was
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Speaker 4: like kind of wild. But I'd literally be greeted at
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Speaker 4: the door and they'd be like, oh my god, Green
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Speaker 4: pant Girl.
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Speaker 3: And I was like, Okay, I guess that's like what.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to be known for here, but like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: you're not just like a like people will remember you.
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Speaker 4: So Like I remember being surprised about like how much
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Speaker 4: like on the opposite done of it, Like how.
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Speaker 3: Much work goes into it, you know, like work week
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Speaker 3: and recruitment week, Like those are some long days and
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Speaker 3: like Wiza just said, like there is a lot of
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Speaker 3: pressure on the recruiter because they're driving the conversation, you know,
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Speaker 3: a sophomore going through recruitment like being like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 3: I have to remember all these little things about this girl,
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Speaker 3: and I want to make sure that like she feels
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Speaker 3: good and that like the conversation is flowing and.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, can you recall any conversations that were off putting
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Speaker 1: or maybe call you guys off guard during rush?
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Speaker 2: Oh I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 1: I mean Green Pant Girl. I mean I feel like
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Speaker 1: that would catch me off guard. I would be like,
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Speaker 1: is this a compliment or I think.
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Speaker 4: At that point, especially because I was like two years
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Speaker 4: older than all the girls I was rushing with. I
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Speaker 4: was like, I am the age of the girls who
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Speaker 4: are rushing me. So I was just kind of like, okay,
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Speaker 4: like if green pants is a way that you're going
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Speaker 4: to remember me, like by all means that, Yeah, sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't think of anything putting Like I mean,
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 4: Remember I had a roommate at the time who wasn't
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Speaker 4: a different sorority, and you know, they had asked me like,
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Speaker 4: so you live with so and so, and I was
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Speaker 4: kind of like this is completely like unallowable, and I
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Speaker 4: would say I left that house just kind of feeling
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Speaker 4: like do you actually actually value me as a potential
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Speaker 4: new member or there's a connection. Is it because I
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Speaker 4: have a connection to someone that you like invited me back.
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Speaker 3: To your house?
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Speaker 2: And yeah, definitely Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Did you guys get the house you wanted?
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Speaker 1: If not, did you guys come around to realizing that
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Speaker 1: this was the house for you and this was the
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Speaker 1: place for you?
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Speaker 3: I did. Yeah. My older sister went to TC as well,
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Speaker 3: and she was also a gamify, So going through recruitment,
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Speaker 3: I kind of tried to remove like her experience and
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Speaker 3: what she told me tc was all about, which was
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Speaker 3: all positive and good stuff, and so I kind of
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Speaker 3: just wanted to like also get that same experience. And
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Speaker 3: I was like, if I end up getting, you know,
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Speaker 3: the house that she was in, great and if I don't,
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Speaker 3: also great, And it just ended up being that way
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Speaker 3: that I did, and I was really happy with it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like my little it was is like one
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Speaker 3: of my best friends, and we always say that like
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Speaker 3: we if we never both rushed Gamut five, we would
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Speaker 3: have not known each other. And so I so.
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Speaker 4: I didn't end up getting the house that I prefed,
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Speaker 4: which in retrospect was the biggest blessing imaginable. My aunt
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Speaker 4: was a TCU theta, and all of my friends I
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Speaker 4: transferred to TCU prior to rushing were theta's as well,
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Speaker 4: and so going through recruitment the entire time, I was like,
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Speaker 4: obviously I want to be a TCU Theta, like you know,
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Speaker 4: and but then I went through the process and got
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Speaker 4: to the end and it was just kind of like
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Speaker 4: I really want to have like make this my own
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Speaker 4: experience and not be like influenced by the friendships that
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Speaker 4: I have and other sororities, or by the connection I
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Speaker 4: have to THETA, being like being that my aunt was
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Speaker 4: a TCU THETA, I didn't end up getting the house
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Speaker 4: that I prefed, And then obviously, like I said, that
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Speaker 4: was like such a huge blessing because like I was
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Speaker 4: able to continue to fo not that I wouldn't have
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Speaker 4: been able to continue fostering these friendships, but it was
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Speaker 4: like we just had one more thing that like connected
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Speaker 4: us all together. And then again, like my DA family
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Speaker 4: is super important to me, like my littles will be
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Speaker 4: like bridesmaids in my.
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Speaker 3: Wedding, and so it's just like.
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Speaker 4: I didn't end up getting what I wanted, but in
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Speaker 4: the end, I couldn't have asked for anything else.
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Speaker 1: And maybe you were saying like, Okay, maybe I don't
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Speaker 1: want to go THETA because everyone else was there and
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Speaker 1: I want to do something different. But then it's funny
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Speaker 1: that you know, everything's happens for a reason, So you
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Speaker 1: ended up there because that's where you were supposed to
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Speaker 1: end up.
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Speaker 4: Exactly, Yeah, exactly, And now I get to share that
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Speaker 4: with my aunt and my cousin, which is super fun.
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Speaker 4: And so there's definitely a beauty in that story.
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Speaker 1: Ye would you guys say what sorority you're in matters
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Speaker 1: all throughout college or just freshman year.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't even say it all.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think like TCU is a smaller campus, and
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Speaker 4: so being in a sorority, like again.
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Speaker 3: Isn't the end all be all.
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Speaker 4: I think that should be like the takeaway for anybody
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Speaker 4: going through rush, regardless of where you're going to school.
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Speaker 4: But at TCU you have such a unique experience to
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Speaker 4: get to know so many people that like being in
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Speaker 4: a sorority or not being in a sorority doesn't really
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Speaker 4: make that big of a difference. And I also think
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Speaker 4: it's it's like what you make of it, Like you
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Speaker 4: have the choice, like you get to make the decision
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Speaker 4: whether or not you are going to like make friends
19:29
Speaker 4: outside of your sorority. So I feel like maybe maybe
19:34
Speaker 4: it feels more important when you're a freshman.
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Speaker 3: To be right like and like chatter and people telling
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Speaker 3: you you know, like.
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Speaker 1: I think it feels like a bigger deal than it is,
19:44
Speaker 1: and then once you're actually in the sorority, you realize
19:48
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter. I mean, sure, maybe, but also
19:52
Speaker 1: being a female, we could really go anywhere and do
19:56
Speaker 1: anything when it comes to socials and getting into frat
19:59
Speaker 1: part X, Y, and Z. Maybe you can't just go
20:02
Speaker 1: to the mixer from ten to ten thirty when the
20:05
Speaker 1: sororities are there with the frat, but you're able to
20:09
Speaker 1: go at eleven.
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Speaker 2: So there's just little things.
20:11
Speaker 1: But maybe I think it is a good starter to
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Speaker 1: meet people. But then once you're in it, you really
20:17
Speaker 1: have free range to do anything you want.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree it's a good starting point.
20:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think TCU does a good job of
20:26
Speaker 4: encouraging students to like look beyond they're like and beyond
20:32
Speaker 4: great glass, you're going to be like so willing to
20:34
Speaker 4: meet as many people as you can as a freshman
20:37
Speaker 4: in college or you know, whenever you get to call it.
20:39
Speaker 3: But that if you don't happen to meet like your
20:44
Speaker 3: best friend in your storty, you're going to meet that
20:47
Speaker 3: person some way, somehow, Like Yeah, there's so many friends
20:51
Speaker 3: at TCU that I have from like knowing this person
20:53
Speaker 3: and they've introduced me to this person, and this person
20:55
Speaker 3: is you know what I mean. Like, there's so many
20:57
Speaker 3: ways that you can meet people. So I think, yes,
21:00
Speaker 3: it is a good starting point.
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Speaker 1: Did your sorority have any traditions or rituals that shocked you.
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Speaker 4: We have like at the end of every semester we
21:22
Speaker 4: have theda splash, which is like a big essentially pool party.
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Speaker 3: Which is super fun.
21:29
Speaker 4: I feel like at this point almost every sorority or
21:31
Speaker 4: fraternity has adapted some form of of that. Yeah, so
21:36
Speaker 4: maybe that's not a big tradition. We do a senior
21:38
Speaker 4: tradition during recruitment that is super fun. And I feel
21:47
Speaker 4: like when you go through rush there's like little traditions
21:50
Speaker 4: of like songs that you sing or little acts that
21:54
Speaker 4: you put on or whatever. At least THETA have that, which,
21:59
Speaker 4: like going through as a P and M was super
22:01
Speaker 4: engaging and fun and it kind of just like when
22:05
Speaker 4: everybody else is like being goofy, you can kind of
22:07
Speaker 4: just like let your guard down. But yeah, I feel
22:10
Speaker 4: like we didn't have any like the bigger traditions were
22:13
Speaker 4: done during initiation.
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Speaker 1: Which you know every solreaty is different with that, right,
22:20
Speaker 1: what was your initiation process?
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Speaker 2: Like it was very tame, Okay.
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Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of the times you hear
22:28
Speaker 4: about like crazy things that happened, and.
22:30
Speaker 2: So there was no like sitting on a dryer.
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Speaker 4: No, no TCU and like Greek life in general at
22:39
Speaker 4: TC was very anti like hazing.
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Speaker 3: Everything is very like on the very already end, Like I, yes,
22:47
Speaker 3: that's not.
22:48
Speaker 4: For the Yeah, but it was literally I think, like
22:52
Speaker 4: the worst thing was maybe that I was blindfolded going
22:55
Speaker 4: up and down the stairs because they didn't want to
22:57
Speaker 4: show us the different rooms that we were being taken
22:59
Speaker 4: in too, like and.
23:02
Speaker 2: But it's all harmless.
23:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like you were blindfolded because you weren't
23:06
Speaker 4: allowed to see the upstairs of the house until you
23:09
Speaker 4: were initiated.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're.
23:11
Speaker 4: In the upstairs of the house, we just couldn't see
23:13
Speaker 4: it because we weren't initiated. Yeah, Like we were never
23:17
Speaker 4: allowed to cross the boundary to go upstairs, like we
23:21
Speaker 4: had to stay down.
23:22
Speaker 3: Like funny, I was on zoom, so we didn't have it.
23:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was all in person and I was wearing
23:29
Speaker 4: a mask, which was horrific.
23:30
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, and when we when I was
23:33
Speaker 3: recruiting my sophomore year, we just stayed in like the
23:35
Speaker 3: main room. We didn't, like, we don't go other places
23:37
Speaker 3: in the house.
23:38
Speaker 4: We stay like downstairs, there's like one room that's coated
23:41
Speaker 4: in all white curtains, and like it gets really hot
23:44
Speaker 4: in there, and I think or someone passed out. Actually, yes,
23:47
Speaker 4: one of my really good friends passed out. She was
23:48
Speaker 4: right next to me because it just.
23:51
Speaker 3: Got too hot. I think that's like the craziest thing
23:53
Speaker 3: that happened. Yeah, Unfortunately, recruitment here is during literally the
23:57
Speaker 3: worst month of the entire year. It is like, oh
24:00
Speaker 3: my gosh, it's so hot here a lot.
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Speaker 1: What did you miss most about sorority life as you
24:06
Speaker 1: continued your schooling in the same place you were in
24:08
Speaker 1: a sorority in.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. I would say, like still
24:13
Speaker 3: being here in Fort Worth and like watching the younger
24:16
Speaker 3: girls in gammify like get to experience all the things
24:20
Speaker 3: that I wants experience. Like I just went to I
24:23
Speaker 3: don't even know what is aeron to me, like my
24:25
Speaker 3: grand little he's your gee. That Yeah, I went to
24:30
Speaker 3: her twenty first and like there was some gammafies there,
24:33
Speaker 3: but there was also like just other friends of hers there,
24:36
Speaker 3: And I am such a nostalgic person and like Liza
24:39
Speaker 3: can attest to that, but I'm just like, like I
24:42
Speaker 3: loved college. I had a great experience, So watching other
24:45
Speaker 3: people get to experience that like makes me so like happy, yeah.
24:50
Speaker 2: I mean it is.
24:51
Speaker 1: You're like you're watching them like do what you were
24:54
Speaker 1: just doing.
24:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like I could get emotional about it,
24:57
Speaker 3: but like I literally could. I yeah, watching them get
25:02
Speaker 3: to experience that for the first time and like hearing
25:05
Speaker 3: their stories and I'm like yeah, yeah, yep, I totally
25:08
Speaker 3: get that, or like, oh my god, this is how
25:10
Speaker 3: we did it, you know.
25:12
Speaker 4: So I would say for me, like because I was
25:16
Speaker 4: older than the girls at my PC, I missed like
25:18
Speaker 4: that kind of mentoring aspect or just being like somebody
25:22
Speaker 4: that people like came to and I've like wasn't huge.
25:27
Speaker 3: On going to all the social events and things.
25:30
Speaker 4: And looking back, I wish I had taken advantage of that.
25:34
Speaker 4: But and I would say, similar to Laura, like it's
25:37
Speaker 4: really it's fun seeing like the you know, the sorority
25:42
Speaker 4: like change shape and welcome new members and and just
25:49
Speaker 4: like see things to like I don't I don't know,
25:53
Speaker 4: like just watching like relate to them, Yeah, like finally
25:56
Speaker 4: get to relate to them.
25:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe you know, I'll be like, oh my god,
25:59
Speaker 3: like that's how y'all did it, Like this is how
26:01
Speaker 3: we did it. That's so funny, or like we.
26:03
Speaker 4: Have a friend Lauren who works for Ihearten. She her
26:09
Speaker 4: little sisters and her cousin just went through rush and
26:12
Speaker 4: it was like fun to watch them go through it,
26:14
Speaker 4: and you know, I wrote one of their rock letters
26:17
Speaker 4: and like chatting with them about like all things are gone,
26:21
Speaker 4: Like it was just very nostalgic, is a good way
26:24
Speaker 4: to put it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, thank you guys so much for coming on
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Speaker 1: Dirty Rush and congrats on graduating.
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Speaker 2: This was such a fun episode.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
26:32
Speaker 1: And good luck with all your you know, your career
26:35
Speaker 1: and everything that's coming after this.
26:37
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you much.
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