Every year when July turns to August sorority women everywhere are beginning to think constantly about recruitment. Every fall semester (and sometimes the spring one as well) women go through a process called recruitment to find their forever home within their campus. This home will be the place they laugh, cry and grow as a human being; it will be the place they find their true sisters and help them through good times and bad. There is something unique and chaotic about sorority recruitment, we all love it though even the crazy stressful week with long nights and even longer days. These are the 10 thoughts every sorority woman has during the month of sorority recruitment.
- Don’t talk too much; ask them questions but, not cliché ones!
- I thought that went well, did she think that went well? Will she come back?
- How long do we have to stay in these heels?
- Finally a break! I can sit down and eat now!
- I’m so AWKWARD!
- I feel like I’m speed dating! This is so stressful!
- It’s Preference night and I’m not a crier...or I wasn’t
- Is this one little material? Can I call dibs? What if she didn’t like me?
- I killed that conversation; she’s totally going to come back.
- It’s BID DAY! My new sisters are here!
Whatever your thoughts are during recruitment, remember everything happens for a reason and everyone will find their home. Don’t be stressed or let doubts sink in, your sisterhood will shine as brightly as it should. You joined your sorority for a reason and the new girls will join theirs for a reason too. When I was going through my recruitment trying to find my home I went in thinking there was a home for me in a sorority I had done a TON of research on and thought I loved. For whatever reason I wasn’t invited back to their party, needless to say I was devastated and thought about dropping out. A very wise and very kind faculty member took me aside when she saw I was upset and let me cry it out, she then proceeded to explain to me that my true home (no matter how much research I had done or how much I thought I wanted this sorority) would always invite me back. I just had to come into the parties with an open mind and see the sisters for whom they were and whom they would be; the closest people I have ever known.
After that conversation, I elected to stay in recruitment and look for my home in places that I hadn’t before. I made myself open up and not be a girl who went in looking for her home in all the wrong places.
So that’s my advice to all of the girls out there thinking about going through recruitment. Yes, you can make your judgments (at least some of them) before you walk in those doors but, keep an open mind and look for your home. You never know, you might find it in the one place you never thought of looking.
