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Dirty Rush: Work it, Girl! Work Week is BANANAS! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sororiti Life with
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Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia Judice, Daisy.
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Speaker 2: Kent, and Jennifer Kessler.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush. I'm Margo
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Speaker 3: and today is a producer hosted episode all about work week.
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Speaker 3: First off, give us the rundown. What was work week
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Speaker 3: like at your school?
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Speaker 2: Okay, work week, I personally.
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Speaker 3: Was.
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Speaker 2: I did work week for three years, so that means
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Speaker 2: I did as a senior, which at my school is
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Speaker 2: very uncommon. Usually girls would try to do it one
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Speaker 2: year and like be done because no one really wants
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Speaker 2: to be a part of it unless you're on recruitment team.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of like a thing at my school, like
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Speaker 2: girls trying to get out of it, Like they will
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Speaker 2: use every excuse in the book, and my sarty is
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Speaker 2: super strict, so they will deny so many excuses that
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Speaker 2: come in. But I did it for all three years,
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Speaker 2: and the purpose is just like obviously it's like teaching
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Speaker 2: all the logistics of bump groups and how you recruit
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Speaker 2: girls and all that. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: like it's so much about just like getting to know
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Speaker 2: your PC and you're swarty. I feel like a lot
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Speaker 2: of girls after freshman year, you like live in a dorm,
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Speaker 2: and like you're kind of friends with your dorm girls,
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Speaker 2: and maybe you haven't gone as close with your own
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Speaker 2: swarty sisters just because sometimes that's how freshman year goes.
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Speaker 2: And I feel like work week really gives you a
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Speaker 2: chance to bond with everyone in your PC or the
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Speaker 2: girls below and above you because you're literally forced to
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Speaker 2: be together for ten hours a day, so you literally
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Speaker 2: have no other choice but to like get to know
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Speaker 2: each other and like enjoy it. And we'll jump into
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Speaker 2: all this in this episode, but you get placed in
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Speaker 2: certain bump groups and you get really close with the
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Speaker 2: girls in your bump group, And I don't know, so
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Speaker 2: for me, it was mostly about teaching you everything about recruitment,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like it is definitely about like getting
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Speaker 2: to know your PC and the PCs above, Like that's
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Speaker 2: a huge part of it that like I feel like
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Speaker 2: our whole sorority like really encourages.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll just kind of like go off of what
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Speaker 4: Shelby's already said, but I feel like our sorority was
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Speaker 4: I don't know about you selves, but like my sorority
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Speaker 4: was not as organized throughout the year and work week.
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Speaker 4: Our work week was extra long just because we like
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Speaker 4: did all of the housekeeping during that time too, Like
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Speaker 4: we were learning how to recruit, and we were like
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Speaker 4: we had this huge old house that just like it
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Speaker 4: was kind of our job to maintain or figure out
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Speaker 4: like how we were going to maintain it. So if
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Speaker 4: there were things that needed to be clean or organized,
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Speaker 4: or like all these old photos and photo albums that
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Speaker 4: we needed to do. And then like nobody knew the
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Speaker 4: song for our sorority, so like we drilled that during
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Speaker 4: work week. We made sure everyone went through like certain
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Speaker 4: trainings that we had to do, so we kind of
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Speaker 4: just jam packed all of our like sorority house keeping
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Speaker 4: into one week, especially for the older members that we knew,
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Speaker 4: like we're going to show up to certain meetings throughout
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Speaker 4: the year, like or like would get dropped if they
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Speaker 4: hadn't done certain training, so we would do that during
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Speaker 4: work week. But like it is a tightly run ship.
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Speaker 4: I feel like work week like no hours go wasted.
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Speaker 4: You are really working every day for ten hours making
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Speaker 4: sure the house is in tip top shape for recruitment,
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Speaker 4: but also like to last the year because you don't
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Speaker 4: know if we're ever going to get hands on this
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Speaker 4: stuff later on. You're practicing for recruitment, practicing with other houses,
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Speaker 4: You're getting the.
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Speaker 2: Flowers ready, the signage.
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Speaker 4: It's all hands on deck, and it's kind of wild
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Speaker 4: how much can come together in just one week. And
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Speaker 4: I agree with you Shelves that it's a time when
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Speaker 4: you get really close with like some of the older girls.
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Speaker 4: If you're underclassmen or an upperclassman, like you might not
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Speaker 4: really want to be there at the beginning of the week,
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Speaker 4: but all of your friends and sororities are doing the
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Speaker 4: same thing, and like the guys in the frats are
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Speaker 4: also doing the same thing at the same time. It's
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Speaker 4: kind of like there's no better place or anywhere else,
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Speaker 4: like you would be unless you had you were working
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Speaker 4: or had an internship. But you do get really close
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Speaker 4: with everyone in the house at that time, and it's
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Speaker 4: it's like ends up being like some of my favorite
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Speaker 4: memories that I had and like are the reason why
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Speaker 4: I'm close with some of the upperclassmen.
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Speaker 5: I think my situation definitely some similarities, but I think
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Speaker 5: my situation was a little bit different because I joined
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Speaker 5: my sorority as a junior. I didn't obviously have any
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Speaker 5: other experience with work week, so I actually did do
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Speaker 5: it my senior year, even though it wasn't as common
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Speaker 5: for seniors to do it. I kind of felt like
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Speaker 5: it was an experience I wanted to have if I
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Speaker 5: was going to go through all the effort and time
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Speaker 5: to join Authrority, I wanted to like have the really
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Speaker 5: full experience. But I can say like as a senior,
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Speaker 5: it is definitely a thing that people really try to
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Speaker 5: get out of it. It was definitely unique that I
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Speaker 5: did it as a senior, and I was particularly really
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Speaker 5: close with a lot of the sophomore so I was
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Speaker 5: able to get a lot out of it and had
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Speaker 5: a really great time with them, and it was an
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Speaker 5: incredible bond experience. But I think I was one of
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Speaker 5: like three seniors that showed up to anything, and in
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Speaker 5: a weird way, I think, not like an advantage, but
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Speaker 5: I think that there was definitely an element of closeness
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Speaker 5: I felt to my sorority that some of the other
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Speaker 5: seniors sort of like kind of fell out of because
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Speaker 5: I made the effort to show up and connect with
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Speaker 5: a lot of the younger the younger girls and the underclassman,
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Speaker 5: so I think there's definitely a lot of benefits to going.
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Speaker 5: But I can't speak for the other girls who were
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Speaker 5: in it for four years. I can tell that there
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Speaker 5: was probably a lot of burnout, but having it be
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Speaker 5: like a very new and exciting thing made me want
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Speaker 5: to do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
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Speaker 1: Also I've only done work Week once because I joined
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Speaker 1: my sorority late as well. And I think it's just
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Speaker 1: like one of those things it's just so unbelievably necessary
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Speaker 1: to do, just because there is just so much that
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Speaker 1: goes into it, and like I couldn't imagine not doing
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Speaker 1: work Week but then doing Rush and like expecting to
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Speaker 1: know the things that we do. There's just so many
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Speaker 1: small logistics and rules that like kind of go into it,
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Speaker 1: knowing how to like properly go through fruitment that are
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Speaker 1: just huge. And it's like all the way from learning
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Speaker 1: your songs and learning your chants and learning like how
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Speaker 1: to like all make that come together with one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty two hundred girls like all trying to learn
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Speaker 1: these things together as well as like your bump groups
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Speaker 1: you're timing learning like yeah, kind of those logistics, But
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Speaker 1: it's definitely something that's like super super cercial and like
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Speaker 1: you get super close with the girls in your bump
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Speaker 1: group as well, so that's also a really nice thing.
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Speaker 2: I totally agree. Yeah, it's like such a fun process,
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Speaker 2: but also like kind of just a lot going on
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Speaker 2: at the same time, and like I feel like I
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Speaker 2: also was thinking about this when you guys are talking
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Speaker 2: about I feel like every year there's so much drama
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Speaker 2: that happens too. Like you're like coming back from summer
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Speaker 2: and like some people were like trying to see their
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Speaker 2: like situationships for the first time, and there was like
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Speaker 2: girls crying in the soarty house, and like you're also
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Speaker 2: then being trapped downstairs for eight hours and girls are
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Speaker 2: like it was just like sometimes like the most going
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Speaker 2: on and you had like nowhere to go, Like there
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Speaker 2: was no escape. You could barely even like go to
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Speaker 2: a workout class because it's just so many hours during
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Speaker 2: the day and I feel like everyone's like the emotions
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Speaker 2: get really high at the end.
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Speaker 4: My first work week was pretty unique in the fact
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Speaker 4: of like and we've talked about it on here before,
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Speaker 4: but I think the school that I went to, UCLA
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Speaker 4: and then University of Washington are like the only other
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Speaker 4: schools that do this, but we did like a summer
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Speaker 4: after freshman year, like a summer camp situation where we
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Speaker 4: lived in the fraternities for like six weeks. And we
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Speaker 4: had gone from like a bunch of different sorority girls,
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Speaker 4: like girls from different sororities were living in a.
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Speaker 2: Frat house for six weeks.
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Speaker 4: We got so close, and then it was like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: everyone go move into your separate sorority houses. You have
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Speaker 4: like a day to move out of the frat into
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Speaker 4: your sorority house and start work week. And I don't know, Shelby,
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Speaker 4: you can speak on it too, but like I feel
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Speaker 4: like work week and recruitment just creates so much competition
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Speaker 4: between houses and it like brings out the worst in
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Speaker 4: each other when you're especially like between each houses, like
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Speaker 4: you're kind of like gossiping about them. And we were
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Speaker 4: like we had just gone from getting so close with
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Speaker 4: girls and other sororities too. Now everyone's gossiping about each
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Speaker 4: other and what they're doing during work week. And this
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Speaker 4: was like right at the prime of the TikTok dance era,
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Speaker 4: and it was like who could go viral one day
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Speaker 4: or the next over their TikTok dances? And we were
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Speaker 4: like they were like tokic everyone's dances and it was
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Speaker 4: just like, now, looking back on it, it's so funny.
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Speaker 4: But in the time, you're like really competing for the
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Speaker 4: best girls and trying to like get your house ready
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Speaker 4: in a week to get the best girls in your sororities,
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Speaker 4: and it really breaths like some cattiness that was not fun.
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Speaker 2: I'm so catty and yik yak. At my school would
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Speaker 2: literally go quol cazzy, I know crazy. It was horrible,
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Speaker 2: and like the things people were saying about each other.
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Speaker 2: It was like yeah, and now like we're like postgrad,
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Speaker 2: we can be like it was literally never that deep,
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Speaker 2: but in the moment, it feels so like it feels
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Speaker 2: like life's gonna be over if you don't get this
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Speaker 2: one P and M. And it's like it's they're gonna
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Speaker 2: be okay and you're gonna be okay. But like it's
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Speaker 2: just so intense and like I agree with you as
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Speaker 2: in the sense of like why are we like shitting
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Speaker 2: on other people's dances, and like it's just so catty
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Speaker 2: and mean and it was like so unnecessary. But in
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Speaker 2: the moment, I remember we had these videos that would
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Speaker 2: come out they were like Round one videos. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if your guys to school did this, but like
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Speaker 2: we didn't have run round one in person. It was
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Speaker 2: like videos and like it was always like who had
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Speaker 2: the best Round one video? That was like so important.
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Speaker 4: I also feel like my sorority we compared to like
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Speaker 4: other storties that are I hate using this word, but
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Speaker 4: like tear, we didn't work as hard or.
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Speaker 2: Just kind of like.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, just we like didn't have the best
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Speaker 4: video edit or like some of our stuff was kind
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Speaker 4: of cheesy and are like and just outdated because like
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Speaker 4: we had just done with like the year before I
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Speaker 4: had done versus like other sorties were always innovating and
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Speaker 4: like getting the best of the best, and then it
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Speaker 4: became a thing when I, yeah, I guess started when
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Speaker 4: I was a sophomore, where until you tell me this
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Speaker 4: was a thing for you, But like sororities were getting
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Speaker 4: sponsorships for each day of work week, so it'd be
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Speaker 4: like Ala would come in and teach a yoga class
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Speaker 4: and everyone would like an exec would all be in
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Speaker 4: like new Alo sets or like the next day it
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Speaker 4: would be like Layla's Bagels sponsored it and they got
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Speaker 4: like Lala's for their work week breakfast, and we were
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Speaker 4: like guys who was on marketing and nobody like got
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Speaker 4: our day sponsored we were, and we were like all
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Speaker 4: the p and m's are.
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Speaker 2: Gonna see that, like we don't get any sponsorships, and
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Speaker 2: it was insane, Like.
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Speaker 4: It just I think social media really brings a different
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Speaker 4: element of competition into it that like was not a
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Speaker 4: thing five years ago.
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Speaker 2: Totally like some of our younger producers on this podcast
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Speaker 2: and talk about that even more because it's so growing,
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Speaker 2: the whole sponsorship thing.
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Speaker 1: Crazy, Yeah, I feel the funny thing is is like
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Speaker 1: Sabine and I went to the same school, so there
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Speaker 1: was like definitely always like her sorority, my sorority, and
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Speaker 1: like two others that like everyone kind of would compare,
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Speaker 1: Like I know DG does a really good pref, but
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Speaker 1: I know Kapa has a really good Felo day, and
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Speaker 1: I know that a Fee does a really good job
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Speaker 1: at like pairing girls up on like the first day
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Speaker 1: like so that like they can kind of get Like
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Speaker 1: it was like Pifi always had like really good songs
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Speaker 1: and it's like everyone like in my house talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about like we know that these houses have really
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Speaker 1: good days, so like we need to amplify it up.
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Speaker 1: And like there was a lot of stuff with yik
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Speaker 1: yak this year with us of like kind of saying
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Speaker 1: like capitains seem like they cared or like they didn't
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Speaker 1: even seem like they wanted to have us there, like
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Speaker 1: their energy is so low, and like that was just
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Speaker 1: so like frustrating for like us and like our recruiting
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Speaker 1: shairs and like people who like had taught us all
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Speaker 1: these things like going into work week two of like
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Speaker 1: and it's just like I don't know, it's a mixture
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Speaker 1: of like girls obviously being upset if like things they
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like things went right their way, and then
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Speaker 1: same way with us of like if we feel like
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Speaker 1: we had a really good person and like they didn't
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Speaker 1: want to come back or like it just like it
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Speaker 1: gets mixed in translation a lot. I feel like with
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Speaker 1: social media of not really knowing like who liked who,
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Speaker 1: who wanted war kind of thing, and like that was
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Speaker 1: always like a really hard thing and like honestly like
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Speaker 1: we just like try to stay away from it as
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Speaker 1: much as possible because just not going to get like
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Speaker 1: roped up into that. But then also with like the
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Speaker 1: TikTok challenges and like seeing like the work week themes
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Speaker 1: and like what they did. It was just like exhausting
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Speaker 1: every day. I remember like going into work week, we
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Speaker 1: like had it all planned out and then we like
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Speaker 1: started changing things like literally in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: week of like themes and like kind of things just
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Speaker 1: like keep like up to date and yeah, like the
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Speaker 1: whole like going viral doing all these crazy dances. It's
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Speaker 1: like getting all the girls who are on your dance
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Speaker 1: team and your sorority to like perform for like hours
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Speaker 1: in the courtyard so that we can get like views
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Speaker 1: and promotions and get like little sponsorship things. Was just
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Speaker 1: like add such another layer to pressure of when we're
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Speaker 1: just like genuinely just trying to like learn like these
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Speaker 1: two minute door chants and everything else. So it does
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Speaker 1: get It does get crazy with the social media part
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 3: Going off of what Honestascias said, how important are the
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Speaker 3: themes of work week? What would you guys say?
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Speaker 5: I feel like in my experience in the one year
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Speaker 5: that I did it, the importance of it is that,
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Speaker 5: like you have an element that's unique. I think they
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Speaker 5: want to see houses that stand out and have something
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Speaker 5: that the other houses don't have. And I know this
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Speaker 5: past year there was definitely situations where our day one
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Speaker 5: work week theme was another house is like day three,
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Speaker 5: and then it became a competition of oh, but who
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Speaker 5: did it better, and so that a level of comparison
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Speaker 5: also became kind of crazy because both houses would do
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Speaker 5: it really great in their own way, but then the
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Speaker 5: p and MS would kind of like look, and I
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Speaker 5: don't think the p and MS cared as much as
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Speaker 5: we thought they did. Like when I was going through recruitment,
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Speaker 5: I didn't get work week, like I didn't like follow
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Speaker 5: the house's instagrams during that, so I didn't have any
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Speaker 5: sort of like care in the world about what houses
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Speaker 5: were better. I really only cared about like the week
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Speaker 5: of recruitment. But it definitely, like kind of what we've
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Speaker 5: been saying, it breeds like some weird level of like
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Speaker 5: hattiness and competitiveness and like what houses do it best?
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Speaker 5: And I think there was like specifically, I think there
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Speaker 5: was an instance where like my house had like a
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Speaker 5: spy day one of the first days, and then another
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Speaker 5: like one of our quote unquote competitor houses like the
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Speaker 5: exact same thing, but like did it objectively like way
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Speaker 5: cooler than we did. And so then it just like
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Speaker 5: it like really doesn't matter, but it feels like it does.
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Speaker 5: So I feel like the more important thing about themes
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Speaker 5: is just like being unique and having something that stands
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Speaker 5: out specifically that's important to your house. So having a theme,
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Speaker 5: having themes that match like the personalities of the girls
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Speaker 5: in the house and like the energy you're trying to
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Speaker 5: create and the image that you want to create and
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Speaker 5: not something that you've just like seen trending on Pinterest
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Speaker 5: or like on TikTok or Instagram.
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Speaker 2: I think what you said about the like if you
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Speaker 2: have the same the theme, like that was like the
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Speaker 2: end of the world. Like with my house, like I
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Speaker 2: think we had the same We figured out that we
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Speaker 2: had the same theme like going into the week, like
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Speaker 2: right before the week started, and it was like chaos,
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Speaker 2: like how are we going to be better than them?
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Speaker 2: Like and it's kind of like does it really matter?
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Speaker 2: But it does. It matters so much that if you
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Speaker 2: have the same theme, we have to do it so
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Speaker 2: much better than them. But like, yeah, it's just crazy.
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Speaker 2: You have to be able to really think of creative
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Speaker 2: themes that no one else will have because having the
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Speaker 2: same theme is that bad. I'm curious when you guys
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Speaker 2: were going through work week, were you like really dressing
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Speaker 2: to the theme or was it like too bey and
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Speaker 2: weird to like actually get into the theme slash, were
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Speaker 2: you trying to be cutesy or are you trying to
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Speaker 2: be like the one in the animal like blow up outfit?
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Speaker 2: Like were you how are you doing your work week outfits?
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Speaker 1: I think the only one for us that was crazy
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Speaker 1: was like we got to do the whole like Kapa
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Speaker 1: blue out thing that was like our like most like
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Speaker 1: unreal like hainous looking one. But then other than that,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of like somewhere a little bit hard
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Speaker 1: to like have more fun with. We did Coachella, We
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Speaker 1: did Y two K like that one had some fun ones.
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Speaker 1: We did Love Island, and like some people either dressed
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Speaker 1: up in like the pajamas that they wear and just
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Speaker 1: like a mic and those like the lazy ones versus
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Speaker 1: like if some girls like wearing like full bikini kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. But like another thing for us was like
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Speaker 1: when we were filming social like tiktoks outside and like
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Speaker 1: families would be walking by or like there would be
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Speaker 1: like we had like scavenger hunt people who like their
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Speaker 1: job was like to come take a photo with us,
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Speaker 1: like while we were doing these like social videos, and
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Speaker 1: it was just like what on earth is going on?
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Speaker 1: And then like you look outside too, and it's like
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Speaker 1: Pi Fi's right and right in front of us and
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Speaker 1: they're doing like the same like crazy thing as well.
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Speaker 2: So like it kind of depends.
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Speaker 1: We didn't have that many like super fun ones, but
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Speaker 1: the Kappa Blueout one is always like the most insane
16:52
Speaker 1: like across like all sororities.
17:08
Speaker 3: Okay, what does a normal work weekday in the life
17:11
Speaker 3: look like if you're a chapter remember, and what does
17:14
Speaker 3: it look like if you're a president or recruitment chair.
17:16
Speaker 2: Well, good thing, we have a president on this podcast
17:20
Speaker 2: who can share hers. Because I was not either, but
17:23
Speaker 2: I was on recruitment team.
17:25
Speaker 4: I just feel like you cannot schedule a single thing
17:29
Speaker 4: during recruitment or work week, like you're you're not only
17:34
Speaker 4: in charge of getting everything ready for yourself, but also
17:37
Speaker 4: for the entire chapter, and like you are there like
17:40
Speaker 4: uphold the morale of the chapter and support everyone else
17:44
Speaker 4: on the recruitment team. So I mean, if you're president,
17:48
Speaker 4: you are up at probably six am. Getting ready for
17:54
Speaker 4: work week. It's going to start at eight am, and
17:57
Speaker 4: you're there going over the schedule for the day and
18:01
Speaker 4: working across all groups, making sure all of the kinks
18:05
Speaker 4: with the bump groups are worked out, making sure that
18:08
Speaker 4: you're researching like all the girls that are coming through recruitment,
18:13
Speaker 4: making sure you have like everything from the songs memorized
18:17
Speaker 4: to your speech is memorized. There's like like you know
18:21
Speaker 4: exactly what where you're going to be and when.
18:24
Speaker 2: Hevy, did you ever like float? Like that was the
18:27
Speaker 2: thing in my chapter, Like the president would float and
18:30
Speaker 2: that was like if you were a P and M
18:32
Speaker 2: and like the President of Recruitment chair tapped on you,
18:34
Speaker 2: like you were like getting a bit from that sorty.
18:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like that's that was like the biggest
18:41
Speaker 4: thing that you do if your recruitment chair president is
18:44
Speaker 4: you are like floating throughout like during but that's during
18:48
Speaker 4: like yeah, actual recruitment. So you're and I guess you're
18:52
Speaker 4: ever a P and M who the President of Recruitment
18:55
Speaker 4: chair floated on you? Like I feel like even then,
18:58
Speaker 4: like even when you're going through recruitment, you knew how
19:00
Speaker 4: special that was just because like even like I don't
19:04
Speaker 4: know when you're young and like you're you've just finished
19:07
Speaker 4: like your senior year in high school or however old
19:09
Speaker 4: you are, Like you see the president who's like standing
19:11
Speaker 4: at the top of the staircase, and to be able
19:15
Speaker 4: to like remember how that felt and then like be
19:18
Speaker 4: the person doing that was pretty funny.
19:20
Speaker 2: Did you have to like practice it at all during
19:22
Speaker 2: work week? Like like how did you know who you were?
19:24
Speaker 2: You just told by their backstage or whatever you guys
19:27
Speaker 2: call it. I feel like you're told.
19:30
Speaker 4: You're told through like the re croubn chairs, like locked
19:32
Speaker 4: into what everyone else is.
19:33
Speaker 2: Saying, or like your friends.
19:36
Speaker 4: Or like are the girls who are recruiting are like
19:38
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, you need to come in and float
19:40
Speaker 4: on this girl, or you need to talk to this
19:42
Speaker 4: girl like they I really like her, I really wonder
19:44
Speaker 4: and you kind of like you take everyone's word for it. Yeah,
19:48
Speaker 4: Or it was the girls who you was who were
19:50
Speaker 4: getting like the top score that you could get.
19:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a similar situation in our sorority, but
19:56
Speaker 5: it was that and I think Kappa might have done
19:57
Speaker 5: the same thing. But it was where the president sat
19:59
Speaker 5: in her room and it was the responsibility of the
20:02
Speaker 5: girl taking her through the house for the house tour
20:05
Speaker 5: day to take her to the President's room if she
20:07
Speaker 5: thought she was like good enough to meet the president.
20:10
Speaker 2: Wait, that's crazy that happened to me.
20:13
Speaker 5: And I remember in the moment knowing like, oh my god,
20:15
Speaker 5: like I've mind you the president is my age because
20:18
Speaker 5: I'm a junior rushing and the president is a junior.
20:21
Speaker 5: And I still was like, oh my god, I'm meeting
20:23
Speaker 5: the president. Like I remember being like so excited about it,
20:27
Speaker 5: and like we're literally like she's not one of my
20:28
Speaker 5: really good friends and we're literally just like both we
20:31
Speaker 5: were the same age at the time. But it's just
20:33
Speaker 5: funny because it was kind of like it was definitely
20:36
Speaker 5: something we practiced during work week. I remember like the
20:39
Speaker 5: whole house tour day was like a really big part
20:41
Speaker 5: of work week practice and like knowing which time to
20:44
Speaker 5: switch on to what floor and like what rooms to
20:47
Speaker 5: take your girls too, Like it was a huge coordinated
20:49
Speaker 5: like mission. And I remember like the whole the way
20:52
Speaker 5: the president fit into that was just making sure like
20:55
Speaker 5: she kind of just was able to like sit in
20:56
Speaker 5: her room and hang out, and then everyone else had
20:58
Speaker 5: to like make sure they knew like Okay, if you
20:59
Speaker 5: like this skilled, take her through. But it was definitely
21:01
Speaker 5: something that like everyone practiced, like nothing was not practice
21:05
Speaker 5: during recruitment, and that was like the crazy or during
21:07
Speaker 5: work week. And I think that was the craziest thing
21:09
Speaker 5: I realized, going from being recruited to recruiting, how calculated
21:13
Speaker 5: and orchestrated everything is. Like nothing was just like like random,
21:18
Speaker 5: like every like the everybody you talked to, every room
21:21
Speaker 5: you went into, every conversation you had like there was
21:23
Speaker 5: some level of like orchestration behind it, which is insane.
21:27
Speaker 1: That's crazy, Yeah, Capita, the same thing for like our
21:30
Speaker 1: house tours. But so this year we got we apparently
21:35
Speaker 1: the year prior to when like the year I was rushing,
21:38
Speaker 1: compared to the year that I was doing work week,
21:40
Speaker 1: we had gotten in trouble, I guess for a lot
21:43
Speaker 1: of things. So they placed like a lot of like
21:45
Speaker 1: really random rules onto us of like instead now it
21:49
Speaker 1: was this year was everyone had to meet the president.
21:51
Speaker 1: And I remember on Sisterhood Day when you do the
21:54
Speaker 1: house tours, it was so calculated to where like they
21:58
Speaker 1: had us.
21:58
Speaker 5: All like by like watch to have on our.
22:01
Speaker 1: Wrists so because it would like start having a line
22:03
Speaker 1: backed out like to the President's suite for every girl
22:07
Speaker 1: to like go introduce them to the president. Still make
22:10
Speaker 1: it back to your bump group in time. Like another
22:13
Speaker 1: like mix up was like sometimes when like you're in
22:16
Speaker 1: like the rush of it and you're trying to remember
22:17
Speaker 1: like these girls' names and still asking, like you end
22:19
Speaker 1: up getting to the President's suite and you're like, oh
22:22
Speaker 1: my god, what's her name? Oh my god, what's her name?
22:23
Speaker 1: And you're like trying to remember and you don't want
22:25
Speaker 1: to like look at their like name tag. So we
22:27
Speaker 1: would have to do this thing where like you would
22:29
Speaker 1: put your hand like on your shoulder and someone would
22:32
Speaker 1: put their hand on top of yours, and that would
22:33
Speaker 1: be like our cue to be like I don't remember
22:35
Speaker 1: this girl's name and I have to introduce her to
22:37
Speaker 1: the president right now, so I need help, And then
22:40
Speaker 1: the president would know to be like Hi, I'm Kate,
22:42
Speaker 1: what's your name or like whatever her name is kind
22:45
Speaker 1: of thing. So that was that was a mess to
22:48
Speaker 1: where like before it'd be like, oh, if like you
22:50
Speaker 1: talked to the president about this like P and M
22:52
Speaker 1: that you really want introduce to her for us now
22:54
Speaker 1: it's everyone has to meet her because it just got
22:58
Speaker 1: so circulated around of like freshman like even like to
23:01
Speaker 1: the point of like making up rumors of like I
23:04
Speaker 1: heard that like kap It does this, and I heard
23:06
Speaker 1: that Aphi does that, and like if that, if that
23:08
Speaker 1: happens to you, then like that's a guaranteed bit or whatever.
23:11
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh my god, we can't have like
23:13
Speaker 1: those kinds of speculations going around, like it needs to
23:16
Speaker 1: be fair. So then that kind of was like a
23:18
Speaker 1: big no going into the recruitment, like especially for us
23:22
Speaker 1: next year as well.
23:24
Speaker 2: Totally. And I think what you guys brought up about
23:25
Speaker 2: the house tour is really interesting. Like my s already
23:29
Speaker 2: did that at my school, but that was like we
23:31
Speaker 2: thought we were the only ones. Like Margo, I know
23:33
Speaker 2: you weren't a part of work week, but was there
23:35
Speaker 2: anything like that at your school, like any sort of
23:37
Speaker 2: like house tours when you were going through recruitment or No.
23:41
Speaker 3: There was actually on like the first days, we got
23:44
Speaker 3: to tour all of the houses before like you decided
23:47
Speaker 3: and like got dropped from any of them. So that
23:49
Speaker 3: was kind of cool. But our houses were honestly like
23:52
Speaker 3: really really small and like always the bigger ones we
23:55
Speaker 3: were like, oh my gosh, they're so cool and like
23:57
Speaker 3: for us, like Ako had like one of the best
23:59
Speaker 3: houses and then Afi had like kind of a good house,
24:02
Speaker 3: not really which is mine, but it was always so
24:05
Speaker 3: cool to see because I feel like, if not, you
24:06
Speaker 3: would never really go in them ever after like recruitment
24:09
Speaker 3: and like once you're in your storty unless like you
24:11
Speaker 3: were friends with them moving on. This is kind of interesting,
24:29
Speaker 3: interesting question that I have for you guys. What happens
24:31
Speaker 3: if you drink or going go out during work week.
24:34
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is different for us, but
24:37
Speaker 1: for us, work week isn't dry. It's recruitment week that's dry.
24:43
Speaker 1: So it's kind of more so like get the fun
24:46
Speaker 1: out of your system during work week, and then recruitment
24:50
Speaker 1: is like if you get caught going out during recruitment,
24:53
Speaker 1: like your house gets fined, like I don't even know,
24:56
Speaker 1: you don't even want to, like know the kind of
24:57
Speaker 1: punishment that you'll face. But for us it was it
25:00
Speaker 1: was like, okay, recruitments so long and brutal, like go
25:04
Speaker 1: out now, so that you better not be going out.
25:06
Speaker 1: I mean, work week is not get it out now
25:09
Speaker 1: before going into recruitment.
25:12
Speaker 5: Everyone was hungover every single day of Yeah, that's crazy to.
25:16
Speaker 2: Me because like no one drank a leg at my school.
25:20
Speaker 5: But also the thing was you can't really you can't
25:22
Speaker 5: drink it. Technically you can't drink in the house, and
25:24
Speaker 5: so all the girls that are living in the house
25:26
Speaker 5: during work week, like you wouldn't necessarily like be drinking
25:30
Speaker 5: at the end of the day like in the house.
25:31
Speaker 5: I feel like for me, it was more like the
25:33
Speaker 5: juniors and seniors that maybe lived like out of the
25:36
Speaker 5: house or like speaking from experience as a senior, like
25:39
Speaker 5: I would go to the house for work week, but
25:41
Speaker 5: then go back to my like actual senior house and
25:43
Speaker 5: then I would like hang out with my friends and
25:45
Speaker 5: then be hungover the next day like it. But there
25:47
Speaker 5: wasn't actually like drinking or partying within the story house.
25:49
Speaker 5: It was more like if people went out and like
25:51
Speaker 5: hung out with their friends outside of it.
25:52
Speaker 2: Definitely like out my house for sure, but even us
25:55
Speaker 2: like ours was dry. I definitely remember the rules being
25:58
Speaker 2: way more intense for recruitment, like your house could be
26:01
Speaker 2: like done, so if you drink during recruitment, I feel
26:02
Speaker 2: like work week it was just a rule, but like whatever, anyway,
26:07
Speaker 2: people girls would like like snap photos of girls out
26:10
Speaker 2: at the bar, like even during work week, like and
26:13
Speaker 2: try to get their whole house off, Like if you
26:15
Speaker 2: wanted to drink, it was like inside your house as
26:17
Speaker 2: a junior or senior, Like you guys were saying and
26:19
Speaker 2: you weren't telling a soul, like you could not be
26:22
Speaker 2: out and about even like a restaurant, Like people would
26:24
Speaker 2: literally try to get you in trouble for drinking, Like
26:26
Speaker 2: it was that intense. So our work week was definitely dry,
26:30
Speaker 2: And to be honest, that's impressive that you guys were
26:32
Speaker 2: even able to go out and drink after work week
26:34
Speaker 2: because I was so exhausted every day after ten hours
26:38
Speaker 2: of talking and singing and clapping that like I was
26:40
Speaker 2: hitting the pillow and waking up at seven am to
26:43
Speaker 2: get ready the next day. So honestly, I'm super impressed
26:46
Speaker 2: that you guys were able to go out every day
26:47
Speaker 2: of work week and that you were hungover. That's crazy.
26:51
Speaker 1: An owning that I remember is for some reason, every
26:55
Speaker 1: year for us, the first football game is always during
27:00
Speaker 1: the first like week of recruitment, which is always just
27:04
Speaker 1: such a pain. So like it's kind of like a
27:06
Speaker 1: known thing that like just the first football game is
27:08
Speaker 1: super lame because no one's out because none of like
27:10
Speaker 1: Greek life gets to go out and like drink and
27:13
Speaker 1: do anything. And being an athlete, like I would have
27:17
Speaker 1: all my like teammates going out and like I'd be like, yeah, yeah, no,
27:20
Speaker 1: I can't. Sorry, Like recruitment it's dry, and they would
27:23
Speaker 1: just have like no idea like why, and like they
27:26
Speaker 1: just thought it was the stupidest thing ever. But yeah,
27:27
Speaker 1: for us, it was always recruitment was the very first
27:29
Speaker 1: football game. And then also that's like led the freshmen
27:33
Speaker 1: who were gonna be rushing being like super scared of
27:35
Speaker 1: going out as well and like getting caught at anything
27:38
Speaker 1: and whatever. And it was always just it's been like
27:40
Speaker 1: a mess every year with that. It's always a big conflict.
27:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy.
27:44
Speaker 3: See.
27:44
Speaker 2: I think it also with you guys going to school
27:46
Speaker 2: in California and we going to school in the South,
27:48
Speaker 2: and our schools having the difference of like my work
27:51
Speaker 2: week in recruitment, we're done in two weeks, and I
27:53
Speaker 2: know that's different for you guys. So I feel like
27:55
Speaker 2: that's a big player where like I feel like they
27:57
Speaker 2: can't make everyone like not go drink at football games
28:00
Speaker 2: and everything for like months like other schools, but like
28:02
Speaker 2: ours was like the two weeks before school started, so
28:05
Speaker 2: like they could put as many rules in place as
28:07
Speaker 2: they wanted to.
28:09
Speaker 3: What advice do you have for girls about to go
28:11
Speaker 3: through their first work week?
28:13
Speaker 2: Like guess just like don't be scared.
28:15
Speaker 3: I don't know.
28:15
Speaker 5: I feel like there's this huge conversation about how nerve
28:18
Speaker 5: wracking recruitment is and like going through it as a
28:22
Speaker 5: P and M. And I feel like on the reverse
28:23
Speaker 5: and once you're in the storty and you feel like
28:26
Speaker 5: you found your friends and you found your house and
28:28
Speaker 5: you're super happy, it definitely can feel really stressful to
28:32
Speaker 5: like learn all the ways that you need to like
28:35
Speaker 5: do that. On the flip side, like being the recruiter
28:39
Speaker 5: is definitely a very different experience, and I think just
28:42
Speaker 5: taking like just being patient with it and like being
28:46
Speaker 5: excited every single day. And I also think knowing and
28:49
Speaker 5: being friends with a lot of the girls on the
28:51
Speaker 5: recruitment chair and like the exect like be willing to
28:54
Speaker 5: learn and like be respectful during like the meetings where
28:57
Speaker 5: everyone's like having to listen and learn songs because it
29:00
Speaker 5: makes it so much harder for everyone if you're going
29:03
Speaker 5: into it half passing it and not really paying attention
29:05
Speaker 5: when people are teaching or when people are giving speeches,
29:08
Speaker 5: Like it is really stressful being on the exact side
29:10
Speaker 5: of things. So I think going through a work week,
29:13
Speaker 5: just like know that it's only a couple of days.
29:15
Speaker 5: It's probably going to feel extremely exhausting, but it really
29:18
Speaker 5: doesn't last that long, and like it's important to just
29:21
Speaker 5: like kind of lok in for a couple of days
29:23
Speaker 5: and like, yeah, it's super fun, it's super like amazing,
29:25
Speaker 5: but be just like paying attention as much as you can.
29:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like totally what Sabina said of just
29:31
Speaker 1: like be respectful to the people who are like taking
29:34
Speaker 1: the time to teach you what to do during it,
29:36
Speaker 1: Like they plan that out for months throughout the entire summer,
29:40
Speaker 1: and there's so much that goes into it on their
29:42
Speaker 1: ends to where like you just need to be a
29:44
Speaker 1: team player and just like enjoy it. Like the more
29:47
Speaker 1: that like you have fun with it, the better it
29:49
Speaker 1: will be and the easier will be to kind of,
29:51
Speaker 1: I guess, get through. But like if you guys all
29:54
Speaker 1: just camaraderiate together and make it fun and make it engaging,
29:58
Speaker 1: Like it's just gonna make rush even that much better.
30:00
Speaker 1: I feel like whatever you guys put into recruitment will
30:03
Speaker 1: like really shine through when you guys want to rush,
30:05
Speaker 1: and then it's like the most rewarding thing on mid
30:07
Speaker 1: day when like you look at like the new PC
30:09
Speaker 1: that you guys all just like recruited, and it's like
30:11
Speaker 1: a great, great experience, like knowing that like you got
30:15
Speaker 1: to help get those girls into this house and like
30:17
Speaker 1: that's kind of gonna be the future of the house
30:18
Speaker 1: as well.
30:19
Speaker 2: So yeah, just like take it seriously. There's so much
30:22
Speaker 2: that goes into it.
30:23
Speaker 1: But like the more that you put in during recruitment,
30:25
Speaker 1: the better RUSH will be and the like more enjoyable
30:27
Speaker 1: bid day and your new PC will be as well.
30:30
Speaker 1: And also like the pms can tell your excitement, like
30:34
Speaker 1: if they get excited when you're super excited, so like
30:37
Speaker 1: by like being super on top of it and being
30:39
Speaker 1: so welcoming and like practicing those little things like it's
30:42
Speaker 1: for them. It's not about you guys, Like it's to
30:45
Speaker 1: rush these new p and ms, So like make it
30:47
Speaker 1: fun and make it engaging, and like they'll be able
30:49
Speaker 1: to like feel that energy and want to be part
30:51
Speaker 1: of your house totally.
30:53
Speaker 2: I like my biggest two pieces advice are first, like
30:56
Speaker 2: go into it with an open mind about friendships, because
30:58
Speaker 2: I feel like so many of my friends friends or
31:00
Speaker 2: like younger girls I've talked to, like we're so sadd
31:03
Speaker 2: like their friends and who they were freshman year and
31:05
Speaker 2: like ended up having like getting so many more friends
31:08
Speaker 2: and like getting to know so many girls in their
31:10
Speaker 2: own house. So I feel like just really be open
31:12
Speaker 2: to like maybe going to get coffee with someone new,
31:16
Speaker 2: or just like really being open to bringing in more friendships.
31:19
Speaker 2: And number two would be like do not be the complainer.
31:22
Speaker 2: Those people are the actual worst. Everyone's tired, everyone wants
31:25
Speaker 2: to go home. Like if you're the one that's like
31:27
Speaker 2: sitting in the corner complaining the entire time, like you're
31:29
Speaker 2: literally just bringing down the vibes, Like be the one
31:32
Speaker 2: who's like playing the music loud on this speaker, like
31:35
Speaker 2: getting everyone hyped up, Like like everyone on here has
31:39
Speaker 2: been saying, like it's literally just about what you put
31:41
Speaker 2: into it, Like you need to be putting in energy
31:43
Speaker 2: and like you'll get it back, Like if you like
31:46
Speaker 2: take it seriously and like have a fun time, like
31:48
Speaker 2: you will like work, we get so fun. Like I
31:52
Speaker 2: literally said, I did it three years. It was so fun.
31:54
Speaker 2: I did my senior year with like ten seniors. No
31:57
Speaker 2: one does a senior year, and we had a blast.
32:00
Speaker 2: Like literally, we're just like dancing and having so much fun.
32:03
Speaker 2: My recruitment chair made a fake position on me for
32:05
Speaker 2: recruitment team so that she could force me to do
32:08
Speaker 2: work week and it was so fun and even though
32:10
Speaker 2: I didn't want to do it, I had a blast.
32:12
Speaker 2: So that would be my advice, like, just go in
32:14
Speaker 2: with an open mind. That's it for this episode of
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