Recruitment comes and goes in the blink of an eye. When Bid Day roles around you are in complete awe of how SO many fabulous girls chose your chapter as being the girls they could laugh with, cry with, and spend the rest of their college years associated with. Pretty cool right? Well, the days to follow leading up to Big/Little Reveal could not be any more intense in the Greek community on campuses across the nation.
Every sorority has some form of dates that allow the initiated members and new members to participate in to get the chapter to form deeper connections. This is an attempt to validate that these girls chose the right chapter for them and can see themselves bitching about life with you. This process of finding the little of your dreams is where the bachelorette (lesbian version) comes into play…
Since I am a Bachelor fanatic, I have decided that it is quite evident that when people get sent home on the show, they whine about how their life is over and how they don’t get to spend the rest of their life with the "person of their dreams," CAN SOMEONE SAY BULLSHIT? Whether it be a little in a sorority or the person you want to marry, everything will work out as it's supposed to, no need to fret.
The whole process is roughly 3 months long for the bachelor(ette) to find the person they’ll spend the rest of their life with, while ours is around three weeks long to find our little... This puts a lot of pressure on trying to find a relationship you feel like putting energy into when your college life is already jam-packed.
By going on these somewhat random dates with girls from all over, with different backgrounds and understandings of Greek Life, it’s hard to weed out who you WANT to make those long-lasting college memories with.
When it comes to the production aspect of this "reality" tv show, it is expected that the cast members of the Bachelor or Bachelorette get to go on extravagant dates FOR FREE with the person they are smitten with. We Sorority women, however, don’t get this amazing opportunity. As broke college students going on countless dates, we have to put our babysitter cash-flow towards potentially finding a girl that might dip their pizza in ranch or hate cats like you do.
The competition becomes real once you start making deeper connections with girls and then see “your” dream little start developing other friendships and going on other dates. A little pang in your heart starts to form when you begin to notice that’s the girl you want to be a weirdo with. In that moment you realize you will do anything to win that bitch over. 
When it comes to gifting for the little I should have made it a point to stay away from Pinterest. Going on Pinterest, I see gift baskets consisting of Channel perfume and elaborate crafts, while I’m over here struggling to paint a stick figure. The process of finding gifts that won’t just sit and rot in your little’s closet is a complete nightmare. Fuzzy socks? Re-gifting? You guessed it.
In all seriousness, there are so many awesome girls that just joined my chapter and I'm so stoked to be able to call one of them my little. It's not a competition and about calling dibs, it's about making genuine connections and finding someone you want to spoil with hugs, endless laughs and a lot of pizza.
