While every sorority and fraternity chapter has their merits, no one house fits every person’s personality. With spring recruitment just out of the way and spring pledgeship underway, I could not think of a more fitting topic. 

Finding where you fit may be one of the hardest and most important things you ever do in college. One week is not enough time to pick who will be your best friends, bridesmaids and groomsmen and, essentially, new family. Somehow, we make it work. 

One of my friends explained it to me that there are three types of recruits: 1) the recruit who just wants to be a part of something and a Greek organization seems like the last frontier; 2) the recruit who wants the stereotypical frat or srat experience; 3) the recruit who does not quite fit "the mold". You are, basically, born into one of these predisposed groups and there are great Greek organizations on campus that cater to each of these three types.

We all remember the nervous excitement we felt as we started in our walking groups. Some of us may have never met so many people in one day. Remembering names becomes a hopeless endeavor after the third house and the humidity begins to make you question wearing your OCBD that day. As your new Sperry’s start to rub the second blister on your foot, you begin to wonder what kind of impression you are making.

The girls, I have been told, are stunned by the loud clapping and dancing they encounter at every house. The Greek letters run together in an indiscernible alphabet soup of confusion, while you try to remember the chapters you actually like. When all the tours are over, you get your first visitation list. You go to the houses and try to find the connection that makes you want to be a part of the organization. For the number twos, they have probably already found the group for them and will spend their entire visitation at that house (or for a girl, spend the rest of the day comparing all of the other chapters to her dream chapter). 

After much deliberation and a second visit, you have picked a chapter. If the members think you are as good a fit as you do, they will give you a bid. You did it! You’ve started your journey in the Greek system! The journey may be difficult in the beginning, but it will all be worth it in the end. The people you have entered into a society with will become some of your best friends and they will probably be in your wedding. Fraternities and sororities really are lifelong bonds. I only wish that everyone could find a place where they fit and find a family.