Sorority recruitment. We all hate to love it and love to hate it. Here's how it really goes, as told by everyone's favorite sponge.

1. Getting ready.

This usually includes a power point of various celebrities for reference on how they expect everyone to look. (As if looking like Beyonce is an achievable goal.)

2. Set up.

God help you if you've been blessed with being the set-up crew. Everything has to be perfect and the PNM's are coming in hot and full of judgement. You honestly need eight arms to do this job and you'll be so glad when everything is finally done.

3. Before the round.

Everyone is ready. Your chapter starts their chant, jumping and dancing as the PNM's come marching in. There's no stopping this chant. Can't stop, won't stop. Breathing gets put on the back burner.

4. During the round.

Obviously, this is the most important part. It has become your job to impress the PNM's and make them feel comfortable in the room. Clicking with them is essential for forming a bomb new pledge class. You'll know you've found a diamond in the rough when you get off of talking about majors and hometowns and you find yourself talking about how her mom's cousin's dog once ate the same sushi as you.

But then you can also get the PNM who is most definitely not your type of person and that will find her home somewhere else and you just stand there like...

5. Between rounds.

This is a very special time and everyone seems to love each other even more than they already do by telling good stories and sharing warm and fuzzies. Maybe even the occasional dance party.

6. Finding your rush crush.

As you get deeper into recruitment and rounds are becoming fewer, many have found and adopted a PNM and named her their rush crush. It's someone you find that you absolutely adore and have to convince that your chapter is the one for her. It's a low key obsession.

7. Recruitment team closing in on Bid Day.

The recruitment team does so much more than anyone could ever imagine and definitely do not get the credit they deserve. They spend long nights figuring out who are the best fits and making sure everything runs smoothly. They look a little like the SpongeBob above...

and then more like this.

8. But finally... BID DAY.

Come one, come all. It's finally time to celebrate. The new members are here and the agony is over. The new girls are perfect in every way and we never let them forget it. Let's have fun and forget about how we're sleep deprived and need to be students again.

Enjoy your new pledge class and go get some sleep.