Returning back to school after winter break can be overwhelming all on its own, but the added stress and excitement of the many stages of sorority recruitment is unlike any other experience.

1. Getting to see all of your best friends for the first time since last semester at a party and then realizing you all have recruitment practice the next morning...

2. Arriving to practice to learn the cheers and review recruitment-like conversations and trying to remain positive when thinking about the long two weeks ahead.

3. It may seem like the biggest time commitment at first, but when your chapter as a whole starts to realize that everything finally comes together with a little teamwork, all starts to seem right in the world.

4. The first round of recruitment is finally here and you're ready to kill the game with all your sisters after talking to the first PNM.

5. And then there are some PNMs who you automatically click with and have everything in common with and you feel like you were separated at birth...

6. The skit round comes and you're so proud of all of your sisters for singing and dancing better than Queen B.

7. Then soon enough, it's the last and most sentimental round: pref round, and the girls you've totally clicked with return to your chapter's room and you cry happy tears at the senior sisters' speeches and all the love.

8. It's finally bid day and all the girls you've worked so hard to have join your chapter, sign their bids and you feel a sense of accomplishment.

9. And you remember why you joined Greek life in the first place.

10. And now you can finally catch up on sleep and have more time to breathe knowing the new members have found their homes.

11. Until recruitment practices begin again and the cycle repeats...