Feb 15

Grand Prix is a huge event at Purdue that takes place two weeks before finals week. In a nut shell, each sorority is paired up with a fraternity to hang out with all week and they shower you with presents and things like blow-up bounce houses galore. Its a marvelous week. During the couple of months prior to Grand Prix, the fraternities and sororities do what we call, butter-ups. Basically you kiss your desired house's butt so that they pick you to be their pair. We've gotten everything from 50 Den-Pops, milkshakes, and icies, delivered to our house, to a mountainous platter of chocolate-covered strawberries, to being personally serenaded for our butter-ups this year. Its always a feisty time of the year but also a very delicious one. The fraternities really showed us the love with all of the goodies they bought us. These blow up heart balloons got delivered to us on V-Day. They're a little extreme, but hey. 

Jan 14

It weird to think that I almost didn't go through rush. If I had chosen not to, my life would be so completely different than it is right now. I never would have met this group of totally awesome girls that are in my pledge class who have all become some of my best friends. Also, I probably wouldn't have as strong of abs because God knows nothing makes me laugh harder than them. Its definitely a battle living in a house with 80 girls but I figure when else am I ever going to have the opportunity to live in a house full of my best friends. Even though being in a sorority can make you want to rip your hair out, I wouldn't go back and change my decision to be in one here for the world. I can't believe that I'm already half way through my sophomore year of college and knowing that I only have about two more years with these girls makes me so sad. This year, I want to make sure that I take complete advantage of living in this house with these girls and recognize all of the good in it. I already know these next few years are going to fly by even faster than the first and I want to have as many things as I can to look back on and smile about.