It’s official. We love recruitment. We love hearing every sorority’s songs and having them stuck in our heads forever. We love going into every house and seeing girls that love being there. We love “walking with a purpose!!!” We love when our Gamma Chis tell us how many houses we have left to visit and the majority of the women in my group groan but we get excited. We’re weird.
Visiting eighteen chapters seemed daunting at the beginning. We wondered how we would be able to survive! Let me tell you, it was not always smiles though (our faces hurt from smiling all the time – we can’t help it!). Finding your bag in a sea of like bags (especially in the dark) can get crazy. Having to write all we remembered from each chapter after we left was difficult. There were so many names, not to mention the fact that writing while walking is not one of our strong suits. Years from now when we look back at our recruitment booklets, we’re going to see our handwriting and cringe because it’s THAT bad.]
We’re still trying to keep an open mind through the entire process. We visited many chapters that we loved and could possibly see ourselves there. Although, talking with two or three people for about ten minutes, it’s hard to get a true feeling of the house. Some conversations we had, had their awkward, forced moments, but others we felt right at home with the women we were talking to.
Coming back to our suite after each night with Katie, our good friend who lives a few floors below us, all we wanted to do was talk about the houses we had visited. Our suitemates who are not going through recruitment kindly sat while we gushed about how beautiful each house was and while we sang some of the songs were stuck in our heads. Hopefully first invite will go well for both of us! Wish us luck!