While joining a sorority might be the best thing that you ever do during your college career, the road to finding your new family can be filled with many ups and downs. Whether you are one hundred percent sure of where you want to end up, or have absolutely no clue what to expect, here are some of the stages that every girl goes through during recruitment.
1. Excitement
Standing outside of all of the different houses, totally dressed to impress and imagining which letters might look the best on you. You’re trying to keep a level head, telling yourself that you won’t judge any of them until you meet them all… Although secretly you have one in mind.
2. Anxiety
The entire day was a blur, but you’re sure that you’ve left a terrible impression of yourself to the sororities that you actually liked. Maybe they thought your outfit was too much? Or too little? What if you didn’t sound interested enough in their philanthropy? The idea of seeking out sisters on campus and dropping hints to them doesn’t seem like very much of a stretch at this point.
3. Courage
After imagining all of the worst-case scenarios possible in your head, you manage to convince yourself that you’ll be happy no matter which sororities call you back. It’s all about friendship and maybe everything was meant to be? Right?
4. Indignation
All right… So you’re a little pissed off about being dropped by the sorority that you’d thought you’d had the best connection with. Then again, they have no idea what they’re missing out on anyway! But that doesn’t mean that you’re going to go eat your feelings in the dining commons…
5. Panic
What if there was a mistake and they are just playing with your emotions? This all might be some kind of elaborate joke and you’ve already been accepted into the sorority of your dreams… Or maybe it isn’t. But you’re going to email everyone that might be able to tell you differently.
6. Disappointment
You go to the other sororities with a less shining personality before, a bit bitter that you won’t be attending the one that you had thought was your soul mate. But honestly these ones aren’t so bad. Perhaps you could learn to love them?
7. Curiosity
Oh….well these girls are actually very nice and every conversation I’ve had with them has made me laugh. Not to mention their philanthropy isn’t too bad. What was their name again?
8. Attraction
I think that I’ve fallen in love with these girls. My soul mates are definitely in this room, and I’m going to marry every single one of them. I hope they aren’t freaked out with the idea of polygamy!
9. Despair
After being jaded by your top choice’s dismissal of you in the beginning, you fear being denied a bid to the sorority that you’ve managed to fall in love with during the rest of recruitment week. You’ve talked to your mom for at least an hour, trying not to cry and you try hard not to think about what their letters would look like on you, or how many Instagram pics you could put up after you can “throw what you know”. You know, just in case your heart gets crushed once again.
10. Stress
Waiting in line to get your bid day card you literally want to shove every single girl out of the way so that you can just get your card. At the same time you are pretending that you couldn’t care less about getting in or not.
11. Confusion
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY PICKED ME?! OH MY GOSH I THINK I’M GOING TO FAINT. I NEED SPACE. I CAN’T BREATHE. AM I STILL BREATHING? NO, THESE ARE TEARS OF JOY! DON’T WORRY, I’M GOOD! OH GOD, I HAVE TO CALL MY MOM!
12. Elation
Finally meeting all of your new sisters might be the most exciting moment you have experienced in college so far, and the smile on your face might be permanently stuck there, but the feeling is something you wouldn’t trade even for the emotional rollercoaster you had to go on in order to get there.