WEBVTT - Work it, Girl! Work Week is BANANAS! 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sororiti Life with 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.320 your hosts me Gia Judice, Daisy. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:08.480 Kent, and Jennifer Kessler. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.800 Welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush. I'm Margo 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.320 and today is a producer hosted episode all about work week. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.520 First off, give us the rundown. What was work week 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:24.880 like at your school? 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.240 Okay, work week, I personally. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:30.200 Was. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.080 I did work week for three years, so that means 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.760 I did as a senior, which at my school is 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.599 very uncommon. Usually girls would try to do it one 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.840 year and like be done because no one really wants 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.000 to be a part of it unless you're on recruitment team. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:44.920 It's kind of like a thing at my school, like 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.919 girls trying to get out of it, Like they will 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.240 use every excuse in the book, and my sarty is 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.760 super strict, so they will deny so many excuses that 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.120 come in. But I did it for all three years, 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.200 and the purpose is just like obviously it's like teaching 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.520 all the logistics of bump groups and how you recruit 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.080 girls and all that. But at the end of the day, 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.200 like it's so much about just like getting to know 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.759 your PC and you're swarty. I feel like a lot 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.800 of girls after freshman year, you like live in a dorm, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.280 and like you're kind of friends with your dorm girls, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.080 and maybe you haven't gone as close with your own 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.760 swarty sisters just because sometimes that's how freshman year goes. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.920 And I feel like work week really gives you a 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.720 chance to bond with everyone in your PC or the 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:30.399 girls below and above you because you're literally forced to 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.720 be together for ten hours a day, so you literally 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.720 have no other choice but to like get to know 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.679 each other and like enjoy it. And we'll jump into 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.120 all this in this episode, but you get placed in 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.319 certain bump groups and you get really close with the 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.120 girls in your bump group, And I don't know, so 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.280 for me, it was mostly about teaching you everything about recruitment, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.240 but I feel like it is definitely about like getting 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.760 to know your PC and the PCs above, Like that's 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.880 a huge part of it that like I feel like 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.760 our whole sorority like really encourages. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.840 Yeah, I'll just kind of like go off of what 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.440 Shelby's already said, but I feel like our sorority was 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.519 I don't know about you selves, but like my sorority 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.800 was not as organized throughout the year and work week. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.400 Our work week was extra long just because we like 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.400 did all of the housekeeping during that time too, Like 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.560 we were learning how to recruit, and we were like 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.400 we had this huge old house that just like it 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.200 was kind of our job to maintain or figure out 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.000 like how we were going to maintain it. So if 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.040 there were things that needed to be clean or organized, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.800 or like all these old photos and photo albums that 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.080 we needed to do. And then like nobody knew the 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.720 song for our sorority, so like we drilled that during 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.320 work week. We made sure everyone went through like certain 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.240 trainings that we had to do, so we kind of 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.280 just jam packed all of our like sorority house keeping 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.520 into one week, especially for the older members that we knew, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:02.200 like we're going to show up to certain meetings throughout 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.080 the year, like or like would get dropped if they 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.280 hadn't done certain training, so we would do that during 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.040 work week. But like it is a tightly run ship. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.400 I feel like work week like no hours go wasted. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.839 You are really working every day for ten hours making 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.320 sure the house is in tip top shape for recruitment, 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.760 but also like to last the year because you don't 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.280 know if we're ever going to get hands on this 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:32.600 stuff later on. You're practicing for recruitment, practicing with other houses, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.760 You're getting the. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.440 Flowers ready, the signage. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.280 It's all hands on deck, and it's kind of wild 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.920 how much can come together in just one week. And 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.560 I agree with you Shelves that it's a time when 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.040 you get really close with like some of the older girls. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.560 If you're underclassmen or an upperclassman, like you might not 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.200 really want to be there at the beginning of the week, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.160 but all of your friends and sororities are doing the 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.360 same thing, and like the guys in the frats are 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.200 also doing the same thing at the same time. It's 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.080 kind of like there's no better place or anywhere else, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.400 like you would be unless you had you were working 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.960 or had an internship. But you do get really close 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.200 with everyone in the house at that time, and it's 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.320 it's like ends up being like some of my favorite 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.720 memories that I had and like are the reason why 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.680 I'm close with some of the upperclassmen. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.440 I think my situation definitely some similarities, but I think 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.600 my situation was a little bit different because I joined 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.320 my sorority as a junior. I didn't obviously have any 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.919 other experience with work week, so I actually did do 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.440 it my senior year, even though it wasn't as common 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.240 for seniors to do it. I kind of felt like 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.359 it was an experience I wanted to have if I 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.000 was going to go through all the effort and time 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.200 to join Authrority, I wanted to like have the really 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.479 full experience. But I can say like as a senior, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.600 it is definitely a thing that people really try to 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.880 get out of it. It was definitely unique that I 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.400 did it as a senior, and I was particularly really 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.120 close with a lot of the sophomore so I was 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:57.600 able to get a lot out of it and had 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.320 a really great time with them, and it was an 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.320 incredible bond experience. But I think I was one of 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.359 like three seniors that showed up to anything, and in 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.080 a weird way, I think, not like an advantage, but 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.640 I think that there was definitely an element of closeness 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.360 I felt to my sorority that some of the other 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.200 seniors sort of like kind of fell out of because 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.159 I made the effort to show up and connect with 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.680 a lot of the younger the younger girls and the underclassman, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.080 so I think there's definitely a lot of benefits to going. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.600 But I can't speak for the other girls who were 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.120 in it for four years. I can tell that there 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.520 was probably a lot of burnout, but having it be 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.560 like a very new and exciting thing made me want 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:31.960 to do it. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:32.880 Yeah, I was. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.880 Also I've only done work Week once because I joined 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.320 my sorority late as well. And I think it's just 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.880 like one of those things it's just so unbelievably necessary 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.760 to do, just because there is just so much that 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.960 goes into it, and like I couldn't imagine not doing 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.640 work Week but then doing Rush and like expecting to 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.280 know the things that we do. There's just so many 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.720 small logistics and rules that like kind of go into it, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.640 knowing how to like properly go through fruitment that are 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.279 just huge. And it's like all the way from learning 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.880 your songs and learning your chants and learning like how 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.880 to like all make that come together with one hundred 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.800 and fifty two hundred girls like all trying to learn 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.440 these things together as well as like your bump groups 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.880 you're timing learning like yeah, kind of those logistics, But 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.320 it's definitely something that's like super super cercial and like 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:22.960 you get super close with the girls in your bump 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.200 group as well, so that's also a really nice thing. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.680 I totally agree. Yeah, it's like such a fun process, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.520 but also like kind of just a lot going on 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.600 at the same time, and like I feel like I 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.200 also was thinking about this when you guys are talking 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.239 about I feel like every year there's so much drama 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.560 that happens too. Like you're like coming back from summer 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.040 and like some people were like trying to see their 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.280 like situationships for the first time, and there was like 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.560 girls crying in the soarty house, and like you're also 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.440 then being trapped downstairs for eight hours and girls are 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.160 like it was just like sometimes like the most going 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.080 on and you had like nowhere to go, Like there 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.400 was no escape. You could barely even like go to 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.880 a workout class because it's just so many hours during 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:07.600 the day and I feel like everyone's like the emotions 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:08.839 get really high at the end. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.480 My first work week was pretty unique in the fact 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.280 of like and we've talked about it on here before, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.320 but I think the school that I went to, UCLA 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.880 and then University of Washington are like the only other 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.679 schools that do this, but we did like a summer 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.400 after freshman year, like a summer camp situation where we 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.800 lived in the fraternities for like six weeks. And we 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.840 had gone from like a bunch of different sorority girls, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.480 like girls from different sororities were living in a. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:35.800 Frat house for six weeks. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.320 We got so close, and then it was like, Okay, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.880 everyone go move into your separate sorority houses. You have 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.960 like a day to move out of the frat into 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:47.840 your sorority house and start work week. And I don't know, Shelby, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.600 you can speak on it too, but like I feel 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:55.320 like work week and recruitment just creates so much competition 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:00.200 between houses and it like brings out the worst in 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.480 each other when you're especially like between each houses, like 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.640 you're kind of like gossiping about them. And we were 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.240 like we had just gone from getting so close with 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.800 girls and other sororities too. Now everyone's gossiping about each 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.760 other and what they're doing during work week. And this 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.800 was like right at the prime of the TikTok dance era, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.800 and it was like who could go viral one day 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.280 or the next over their TikTok dances? And we were 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.720 like they were like tokic everyone's dances and it was 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.320 just like, now, looking back on it, it's so funny. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.600 But in the time, you're like really competing for the 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.000 best girls and trying to like get your house ready 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.600 in a week to get the best girls in your sororities, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.120 and it really breaths like some cattiness that was not fun. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.480 I'm so catty and yik yak. At my school would 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.760 literally go quol cazzy, I know crazy. It was horrible, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.640 and like the things people were saying about each other. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.840 It was like yeah, and now like we're like postgrad, 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.000 we can be like it was literally never that deep, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.760 but in the moment, it feels so like it feels 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.559 like life's gonna be over if you don't get this 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.880 one P and M. And it's like it's they're gonna 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.240 be okay and you're gonna be okay. But like it's 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.120 just so intense and like I agree with you as 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.000 in the sense of like why are we like shitting 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.440 on other people's dances, and like it's just so catty 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.520 and mean and it was like so unnecessary. But in 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.680 the moment, I remember we had these videos that would 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.719 come out they were like Round one videos. I don't 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.320 know if your guys to school did this, but like 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.280 we didn't have run round one in person. It was 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.120 like videos and like it was always like who had 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.920 the best Round one video? That was like so important. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.440 I also feel like my sorority we compared to like 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.920 other storties that are I hate using this word, but 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.880 like tear, we didn't work as hard or. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:43.640 Just kind of like. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.840 I don't know, just we like didn't have the best 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.840 video edit or like some of our stuff was kind 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.760 of cheesy and are like and just outdated because like 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.400 we had just done with like the year before I 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.160 had done versus like other sorties were always innovating and 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.440 like getting the best of the best, and then it 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.480 became a thing when I, yeah, I guess started when 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.720 I was a sophomore, where until you tell me this 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.040 was a thing for you, But like sororities were getting 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.320 sponsorships for each day of work week, so it'd be 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.160 like Ala would come in and teach a yoga class 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.080 and everyone would like an exec would all be in 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.679 like new Alo sets or like the next day it 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.319 would be like Layla's Bagels sponsored it and they got 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.280 like Lala's for their work week breakfast, and we were 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.040 like guys who was on marketing and nobody like got 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.120 our day sponsored we were, and we were like all 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:36.920 the p and m's are. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.080 Gonna see that, like we don't get any sponsorships, and 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.160 it was insane, Like. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.800 It just I think social media really brings a different 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.880 element of competition into it that like was not a 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.319 thing five years ago. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.880 Totally like some of our younger producers on this podcast 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.600 and talk about that even more because it's so growing, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:58.840 the whole sponsorship thing. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.040 Crazy, Yeah, I feel the funny thing is is like 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.959 Sabine and I went to the same school, so there 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.320 was like definitely always like her sorority, my sorority, and 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.520 like two others that like everyone kind of would compare, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.360 Like I know DG does a really good pref, but 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.680 I know Kapa has a really good Felo day, and 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.400 I know that a Fee does a really good job 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.160 at like pairing girls up on like the first day 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.800 like so that like they can kind of get Like 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.600 it was like Pifi always had like really good songs 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.760 and it's like everyone like in my house talked a 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.600 lot about like we know that these houses have really 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.000 good days, so like we need to amplify it up. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.800 And like there was a lot of stuff with yik 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.840 yak this year with us of like kind of saying 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.040 like capitains seem like they cared or like they didn't 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.960 even seem like they wanted to have us there, like 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.480 their energy is so low, and like that was just 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:54.480 so like frustrating for like us and like our recruiting 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.920 shairs and like people who like had taught us all 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.920 these things like going into work week two of like 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.920 and it's just like I don't know, it's a mixture 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:06.200 of like girls obviously being upset if like things they 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.400 didn't feel like things went right their way, and then 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.680 same way with us of like if we feel like 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.080 we had a really good person and like they didn't 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.400 want to come back or like it just like it 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.800 gets mixed in translation a lot. I feel like with 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.240 social media of not really knowing like who liked who, 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.640 who wanted war kind of thing, and like that was 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.360 always like a really hard thing and like honestly like 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.920 we just like try to stay away from it as 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.760 much as possible because just not going to get like 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.720 roped up into that. But then also with like the 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.040 TikTok challenges and like seeing like the work week themes 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.040 and like what they did. It was just like exhausting 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.079 every day. I remember like going into work week, we 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.120 like had it all planned out and then we like 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.360 started changing things like literally in the middle of the 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.400 week of like themes and like kind of things just 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.960 like keep like up to date and yeah, like the 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.960 whole like going viral doing all these crazy dances. It's 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.200 like getting all the girls who are on your dance 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.000 team and your sorority to like perform for like hours 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.280 in the courtyard so that we can get like views 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.440 and promotions and get like little sponsorship things. Was just 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.880 like add such another layer to pressure of when we're 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.839 just like genuinely just trying to like learn like these 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.400 two minute door chants and everything else. So it does 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.520 get It does get crazy with the social media part 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:18.000 for sure. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.199 Going off of what Honestascias said, how important are the 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.199 themes of work week? What would you guys say? 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.360 I feel like in my experience in the one year 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.719 that I did it, the importance of it is that, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.319 like you have an element that's unique. I think they 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.199 want to see houses that stand out and have something 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.200 that the other houses don't have. And I know this 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.160 past year there was definitely situations where our day one 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.440 work week theme was another house is like day three, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.560 and then it became a competition of oh, but who 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.280 did it better, and so that a level of comparison 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.800 also became kind of crazy because both houses would do 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.880 it really great in their own way, but then the 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.960 p and MS would kind of like look, and I 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.720 don't think the p and MS cared as much as 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.040 we thought they did. Like when I was going through recruitment, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.440 I didn't get work week, like I didn't like follow 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.280 the house's instagrams during that, so I didn't have any 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.200 sort of like care in the world about what houses 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.960 were better. I really only cared about like the week 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.679 of recruitment. But it definitely, like kind of what we've 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.040 been saying, it breeds like some weird level of like 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.640 hattiness and competitiveness and like what houses do it best? 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.400 And I think there was like specifically, I think there 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.240 was an instance where like my house had like a 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.200 spy day one of the first days, and then another 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.040 like one of our quote unquote competitor houses like the 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 exact same thing, but like did it objectively like way 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.200 cooler than we did. And so then it just like 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.920 it like really doesn't matter, but it feels like it does. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.520 So I feel like the more important thing about themes 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.800 is just like being unique and having something that stands 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.800 out specifically that's important to your house. So having a theme, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.960 having themes that match like the personalities of the girls 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.840 in the house and like the energy you're trying to 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.000 create and the image that you want to create and 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.400 not something that you've just like seen trending on Pinterest 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.400 or like on TikTok or Instagram. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.480 I think what you said about the like if you 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.320 have the same the theme, like that was like the 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.960 end of the world. Like with my house, like I 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.240 think we had the same We figured out that we 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.840 had the same theme like going into the week, like 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.920 right before the week started, and it was like chaos, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.600 like how are we going to be better than them? 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.720 Like and it's kind of like does it really matter? 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.080 But it does. It matters so much that if you 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:22.560 have the same theme, we have to do it so 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.720 much better than them. But like, yeah, it's just crazy. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.080 You have to be able to really think of creative 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.040 themes that no one else will have because having the 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.840 same theme is that bad. I'm curious when you guys 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.800 were going through work week, were you like really dressing 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.320 to the theme or was it like too bey and 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.440 weird to like actually get into the theme slash, were 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.040 you trying to be cutesy or are you trying to 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.760 be like the one in the animal like blow up outfit? 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.680 Like were you how are you doing your work week outfits? 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.520 I think the only one for us that was crazy 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.520 was like we got to do the whole like Kapa 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.080 blue out thing that was like our like most like 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.840 unreal like hainous looking one. But then other than that, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.800 it was kind of like somewhere a little bit hard 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.520 to like have more fun with. We did Coachella, We 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.520 did Y two K like that one had some fun ones. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.360 We did Love Island, and like some people either dressed 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.600 up in like the pajamas that they wear and just 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.920 like a mic and those like the lazy ones versus 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.920 like if some girls like wearing like full bikini kind 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.560 of thing. But like another thing for us was like 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.040 when we were filming social like tiktoks outside and like 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.240 families would be walking by or like there would be 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.840 like we had like scavenger hunt people who like their 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.880 job was like to come take a photo with us, 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.840 like while we were doing these like social videos, and 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.800 it was just like what on earth is going on? 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.880 And then like you look outside too, and it's like 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.200 Pi Fi's right and right in front of us and 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.400 they're doing like the same like crazy thing as well. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.160 So like it kind of depends. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.880 We didn't have that many like super fun ones, but 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.920 the Kappa Blueout one is always like the most insane 0:16:52.920 --> 0:17:05.600 like across like all sororities. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.800 Okay, what does a normal work weekday in the life 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.160 look like if you're a chapter remember, and what does 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.520 it look like if you're a president or recruitment chair. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.960 Well, good thing, we have a president on this podcast 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.879 who can share hers. Because I was not either, but 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.480 I was on recruitment team. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.960 I just feel like you cannot schedule a single thing 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:34.840 during recruitment or work week, like you're you're not only 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.440 in charge of getting everything ready for yourself, but also 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.439 for the entire chapter, and like you are there like 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.160 uphold the morale of the chapter and support everyone else 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.680 on the recruitment team. So I mean, if you're president, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:54.439 you are up at probably six am. Getting ready for 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.480 work week. It's going to start at eight am, and 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.120 you're there going over the schedule for the day and 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.200 working across all groups, making sure all of the kinks 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.439 with the bump groups are worked out, making sure that 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.199 you're researching like all the girls that are coming through recruitment, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.120 making sure you have like everything from the songs memorized 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.800 to your speech is memorized. There's like like you know 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.080 exactly what where you're going to be and when. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.879 Hevy, did you ever like float? Like that was the 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.479 thing in my chapter, Like the president would float and 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.760 that was like if you were a P and M 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.880 and like the President of Recruitment chair tapped on you, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.720 like you were like getting a bit from that sorty. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.720 Yeah, I feel like that's that was like the biggest 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.040 thing that you do if your recruitment chair president is 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.160 you are like floating throughout like during but that's during 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.200 like yeah, actual recruitment. So you're and I guess you're 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.320 ever a P and M who the President of Recruitment 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.440 chair floated on you? Like I feel like even then, 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.680 like even when you're going through recruitment, you knew how 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.440