New Girls & Etc.

[feu_de_circe]

Sooo... we have a new pledge class! There are 42 of them--originally 44, but 2 dropped, regrettably. However, the remainder is of the class that was beyond our wildest dreams as an organization up until very recently. We are not the 'pretty' sorority (whatever that means) or the hardcore partiers (regardless of what it may seem to some of you

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[giallarhorn]

Winsome is such a fun word

[feu_de_circe]

Oops, typo. I'll fix it later.

I have no issues with the word 'nerd' in and of itself. I merely find it to be a limiting word, particularly in the mouths of certain roommates of mine for whom sociability is paramount among the virtues. It's as if they're dismissing me socially. As though sociability and scholarship are mutually exclusive. That's why it annoys me.

Dear Kenneth, yes, people are always catty. I prefer when they are so to minimal degrees. Excessive optimism, I know. Of course an all-girl's school carries less drama. Throw boys into the mix and immediately many girls lose their heads, unfortunately. Genetics, I suppose; we are all programmed to go nuts over procreative issues.

I am attacking the mentality of high school that I occasionnally find at Elon and had hoped to leave behind. High school itself... well, you yourself launched into a soliloquy over Winter Break about how high school was over, and thank goodness, etc, etc.

[giallarhorn]

Arguably, it does matter in the context of who you're talking to, but overall, there is nothing actually wrong with being a 'nerd'. Scholarship and sociability aren't mutually exclusive properties, but it was just more a cultural perception of the whole thing that made them seem like they were. So you're more resentful of the implications that the words have in relation to things, which makes more sense to me

[feu_de_circe]

Did you just agree with me? *dies of shock*

You did have a soliloquy about how it was time to forget high school, or words to that effect. It was at Bowen's house early on in the break, I do believe.

[rivieremalfoy]

I wouldn't worry about creating drama over big/little fighting. It might make the next less than a month a little stressful and uneasy, but after big/little reveal everyone is just completely in love with whoever their little is that it doesn't matter what happened before.