Before you know it, summer will be over and that means it's time for recruitment to take over every second of your life. Part of you is unbelievably excited for it to start, but part of you is majorly dreading every second of it. These are the main reasons why we all feel this way.
Reasons You Love Recruitment
1. The Free Shirts
It's a given that sorority girls LOVE the gear, I mean you can never have too many shirts, fanny packs, backpacks and snapbacks am I right? However, you don't love spending every penny in your bank account on gear. So recruitment is great because all of the shirts you're supposed to wear are given to you, for free!
2. Bonding With Your Sisters
Spending every minute of every day with these girls for two weeks is the best time to seriously bond. It's the perfect opportunity to find out all of the dirty details, like that time they snuck a guy into the house, or the crazy things they did during their semester abroad. A game of "never have I ever" with a group of older and younger girls in your sorority is always a good idea.
3. Pictures
Everyone is primped to their absolute cutest, with their hair done and their spray tans looking fresh. It's the perfect time for pictures in all of your matching outfits with your BFFs. Plus, you're likely to get the most Instagram likes on that group picture you posted during recruitment, because every girl in the house is posting basically the same pictures, and everyone is feeling particularly generous with their likes.
4. You Meet Some Awesome Girls
Having a rush crush is no joke. Sometimes you meet a girl (or a few) and you hit it off so incredibly, you just can't imagine what life would be like without them in your house. Even better, when the conversation just flows so naturally that you don't have to use any of your girl flirting tricks on them! You may even meet your future little or grand little and there are few things in this world more exciting than that feeling.
5. Bid Day
There's nothing like working your butt off for weeks and seeing it all pay off! You obviously got a killer pledge class, you just hugged your rush crush/future little and now it's time to throw on that flower crown and celebrate because you survived!
Reasons You Hate Recruitment
1. Crying
Every. One. Cries. Like all the time. Maybe it's all of the estrogen building up in the room combined with the exhaustion and the fact that everyone is cranky from lack of sleep. Whatever the reason, everyone cries at least once or twice....a day.
2. Your Mouth Hurts From Smiling
This sounds like a joke, but by the end of the day the muscles around your mouth are literally sore from smiling so hard and for such long periods of time. When the day is over, all you can do is sit there with resting bitch face to give the muscles a break.
3. Drama
Yes you all love each other, but when you stick 100+ girls in a room together for two weeks, there WILL be drama. Maybe someone stole somebody's hair brush or maybe someone stole somebody's rush crush. It doesn't matter the reason, drama is bound to occur, cat fights will break out, and everyone will be completely over it by the time the next set starts.
4. Buying Recruitment Outfits
Over the summer you're bombarded with email after email about what you have to wear during recruitment. This means going shopping and buying things you'll literally never wear again (like cheetah heels, yikes), at least not until next years recruitment.
5. Voting
How are you supposed to make a decision about a girl based on talking with her for 5 minutes! Making a split second decision about someone can be stressful and confusing. It becomes 10 times worse when you absolutely love a girl, you give her the highest vote possible and talk her up to all your friends, but she doesn't come back the next day. You're beyond crushed and maybe even a little offended that she didn't like you as much as you liked her. The whole voting thing pretty much sucks.
As much as you hate some aspects of recruitment, it's all worth it in the end because you love your sisters, you love your sorority and now you have all of these new, incredible girls that will love it just as much as you do.
