Ahh the week before school starts. When you’re spending that week back at the Rock, it’s an excellent time to try out fancy cupcake recipes, catch up on YouTube videos, eat the food in your kitchen that you are reasonable sure is still good from before break, and resign yourself to the fact that your living conditions will never be as good (or clean) as they are under your parents’ roof. I came back to school way early this semester—last Monday and classes just started Wednesday—because I am taking a class at UMKC this semester, which is an adventure for another post.
But there is only so much sitting around the house one can do, and after catching myself half-watching the same episode of American Stuffers (you guessed it, taxidermy) for the second time that week, I was ready for things to pick up. Luckily, that’s exactly what they did, because we were on the verge of Sorority Recruitment week.
Sororities at Rockhurst are a lot different than at bigger schools...recruitment doesn’t take place until second semester, the sororities are fewer and smaller, and inter-Greek and Greek-unaffiliated relations seem to be stronger than they are at bigger schools, going by descriptions of friends at those schools. Greek life at Rockhurst is a little more relaxed, and that’s what I love about it.
Nevertheless, recruitment is a serious business, and my sorority (Alpha Sigma Alpha) assembles several days before it starts for Work Week, which involves a frenzy of crafts. Yes, crafts, a hallmark of sorority recruitment regardless of the size of your school. I hot-glued safety pins to name tags. Painted six foot tall letters until 1:00 am. And somehow achieved the impossible feat of getting Oreos to stand upright on a cupcake (Minnie Mouse ears, they were very cute). I left the house at 9:00 am and didn’t get back until midnight some days, and I loved every minute of it. We got plenty of work done, but we also got to be goofy and remind ourselves why we joined ASA in the first place. Because we can all laugh about our “last night” of Taco Bell and swear up and down that the diet starts tomorrow (a pintrest challenge this time), because we can have a Parent Trap movie night and dress up as different characters, and because burning my arm on a pan while cooking a giant breakfast dinner was totally worth it when there were twelve of us crowded in my dining room laughing and talking. And now, a week later, we have a whole new class added to our sorority—the Pearls, which is our name for our pledges.
I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the semester. A little down time to adjust from Christmas break, a lot of bonding with sisters, and a whole new set of girls to get to know. Hello, 2012!
Junior ASA class...aka "The J Squad"
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