The Presidential race stirred up a lot of controversy... and a lot of memes. When Hillary was basically offered a bid then got cut on Pref, I started to realize how much alike sorority rush and the presidential race are. I mean, one determines the leader of the free world and the other is flirting with girls for 12 hours straight, but just stick with me here, ok?
1. The week begins and you literally have no idea what to expect.
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2. The moment the door of your first house opens, you learn what exactly a "door stack" is.
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3. You make it through the first house and think "that really wasn't so bad."
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4. You have so much energy at the beginning of the day, but by the eighth house you have determined death is very near.
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5. At the end of the day, you realize you don't know how to NOT smile anymore.
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6. On philanthropy day, you try to have a deep and meaningful conversation with someone you just met LITERALLY three minutes ago.
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7. You've talked about where you're from. At least five times. Within an hour.
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8. By the third day, you're so thankful to watch a house's skit because for like 15 minutes you DON'T HAVE TO TALK.
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9. You desperately try to hold yourself together on Pref because you aren't wearing waterproof mascara and your potential sisters CANNOT see the face you make when you cry.
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10. You get suddenly nervous to open your bid card and go through every potential reason there might be for you to get cut.
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11. You, literally seconds before opening your bid card.
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12. You finally run to your favorite house on bid day.
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13. You get too excited when you try to throw your new sign and it ends up like this.
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14. But it's ok because you'll still get mad likes on your bid day Insta and you just gained like 150 best friends.
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See, I totally had a point there.
The places you’ll go with “yes, and…”
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