Fall rush came to a close on Friday night, October 1, for all students that wanted to go Greek. Fraternity rush lasted a total of 2 weeks, while the sorority recruitment process lasted 4 days ending on Tuesday, October 28th.
Many freshman this year came away from Rush stressed out not knowing what fraternity or sorority they wanted to join, or even if they wanted to join one. A common stress was where could students really see themselves. Jamie Weiss stated, “It is difficult to decide which fraternity I wanted to join the next four years with in such a short span of time.” Weiss continued to state, “I’ve only been on campus for three weeks. It made it very hard for me.” Andrés Varona agreed with that statement, “I had a hard time balancing rush events and my school work.” Following up on that statement, Varona said, “I tried to stay at rush for as long as possible, however, this made it much harder for me to meet brothers in the fraternities.”
Many girls agreed with the boys comments. Bridget Williams commented that, “Through the recruitment process, I decided I wanted to go Greek through the sisters I met. It was also really stressful because our recruitment, unlike the boys, took up only 4 days and lasted for about 6 hours a day."
Students commented that they dealt with stress in different ways too. Eric Ray said, “I tried to do other things to take rush off of my mind. I tried to get more work done during the day so after rush I could relax with friends.” Mary Kate McCarthy also dealt with stress similarly saying, “I tried to have free time so I could think of other things and not rush.”
Rush is a very stressful process. Everyone deals with it in different ways, but also manages to get through it.
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