After my first time participating behind the scenes in sorority recruitment, I've learned a few small details that really make a difference.

1. Speed Washing Dishes

Even a sorority house has a limited number of decorative mason jars.

2. Pillow Fluffing

It sounds like something your mom would tell you when she’s entertaining guests, but honestly it will make or break a room.

3. Smiling and Smizing While You Sing

As spirit week continues, it gets harder to mind the line between excited and crazy when it comes to keeping a lively face during the fourth round of a song, but once the Potential New Members (PNM) arrive, it comes naturally.

4. Investing in Your Heels

Because you will be spending about six hours on your feet, and while no heel will compare to the comfort of a tennis shoe, you can give yourself a boost by wearing ones that don’t completely destroy your feet.

5. Tending to Your Lipstick

Maintaining coverage is fairly obvious, but whenever you aren’t talking to a PNM, make sure it’s not on your teeth. Because if you don’t check, it probably is.

6. Wear Good Eyeliner

Not only do you need to look fierce during actual recruitment, but you’ll need something that can stand up to the onrush of emotions that result from spending a week in close quarters in a house of your closest friends.

7. Sleep is Your Best Friend

After fast-paced long days, the comfort of a decent night’s sleep can be even more helpful then coffee to get a jump start on the next day.

8. Attachments to the PNMs

You will fall in love with a lot of girls from their Facebook profile picture and a few sentences of their bio. Then the parties will begin and you will fall in love with even more. It’s great when your rush crush becomes one of your new sisters. Of course, some will inevitably choose a different house. But, despite your sadness you will be happy knowing they found the place where they belong.

9. You Will Work... A Lot.

Everything from the moment the PNM is picked up to the end of the last door chant is planned out to a “T.” From the flawless transitions to the perky songs to the seating arrangement, everything that contributes to the flow of the parties was rehearsed time and time again until it was finally perfected to its seemingly effortless result. It’s called “Work Week” for a reason.

10. It's So Worth It

If you ever decide to go through recruitment and join a sorority, you’ll understand what we mean when we say it’s all worth it to see the new bids running to the house on the last day.