The time has come where people are frantically running around yelling "recruitment is coming, recruitment is coming." It's the most stressful and hectic time of year, but the most exciting because you will get a new addition to your already ~perfect~ family. You set out during rounds to try to find the girl who could potentially be your little and it will be love at first sight. You've found your rush crush. You want her to parade around in your letters and everyone in the house knows you're obsessed because you can't stop talking about her. This outcome could end one of two ways; heartbreak worse than when Warner broke up with Elle Woods or the euphoric feeling breaking you record of likes on Instagram. Either way, every sorority girl will go through one of these stages at some point during her life.

Stage 1: Sheer panic

Okay, here we go, time for rounds. You're basically speed dating hundreds of girls in 10 minutes trying to find your soulmate. How do you know? When will you know? Panic has set in. You think you're never going to connect with anyone and will become a washed up sophomore who won't succeed in preffing anyone. What if you never find a little or get stuck with a random girl who hates you? Not even your big can get you out of this one.

Stage 2: Pure joy

You found her. She will be your little and you shall call her your little. You would be mortified if she knew how hard you know stalked her and are embarrassed to know about her entire family vacation to Disney World when she was 8. Your backstories are basically identical and you totally relate to everything she said, even if you have to stretch the truth a little to make it work. She happens to have the same hair color as you and your big and didn't manage to bore you to tears with the same questions you've been hearing all week. You immediately claim to pref her and she passed with flying colors.

Stage 3: Devastation

Today's the day. The bid list comes out. You frantically whip out your computer during class when electronics aren't allowed and have to explain that it's an emergency. Tears roll down your cheek when you don't see her name on the list. You've checked 42 times and no matter how hard you look she won't be on there. Did you do a bad job of preffing her? Who dropped who? You're convinced that you let your sorority and your family down. You might as well transfer now.

Stage 4: Denial

No. No. No. Everything is fine. It's a mistake. The voting got messed up and the bid list is actually wrong. It's not possible that she dropped you. She gave you the look. Or did we drop her? Everyone loved her. This doesn't make sense. You believe you're going to get a call saying she's actually on the list and all is right in the world again.

Stage 5: Acceptance

Maybe it wasn't meant to be. She's happy, so you're happy. Although you wanted her so badly, she must've felt she belonged somewhere else and you can't punish her for that. You can tell other girls to look out for her and if you see her out you're going to fangirl over her, even though she probably forgot your name. Don't worry your little is out there somewhere.

As "The Hills" would say, the rest is still unwritten.