Get ready for the longest few days of your life. Going into recruitment I was so excited and nervous for what was to come and finishing up every day I wanted nothing more than to go lie down in bed and not talk to anyone for 12 hours. Get ready to meet about a hundred new people a day and hold very similar conversations with all of them. You are going to have to make yourself stand out amongst the crowd while discussing very uninteresting things like your major or where you come from. So just be ready.

Whether recruitment lasts for three days or two weeks, you are in for the long haul. It will be exhausting to be dressed up all day and going into houses or rooms full of lively people who are chanting for you. And it can be intimidating to walk into each room and not even have one familiar face there. It is going to be an uncomfortable few days, so just be ready to be uncomfortable and try to make the best of it.

You are going to meet a lot of incredible people at once, and if you are like me and it is hard to remember names, then try to remember things about the people rather than their names. Write down notes the second you get out of each round about the girls you talked to and defining points about them that way when you have to rank you can remember things about them that you liked or didn’t like. Also, the notes come in handy for when you are going back to each sorority and you want to be able to bring up past conversations to new people you are talking to today. Some things you write down may be stupid, the only way I remembered one girl was writing down her CookOut tray order, but it helped in the end.

Good luck. I know going through it I hated being told this but it is true that whatever happens is meant to happen. Not everyone is happy with who they get their bid from but that sorority gave you the bid for a reason. It is really hard to get to know these girls in just a few days of talking to them, and truly no one is being their true selves during recruitment. So be open to your options and let whatever happens happen. You are meant to be where you end up, and you will meet a hundred amazing girls no matter where you go. So just give it a try and give every sorority the respect they deserve because you never know where you will end up.

From someone who went through the terrible rush week themselves