The stress of sorority recruitment has died down. No more 12-hour days of meeting 11 plus girls and trying to recall names, conversations, etc. PC’15 has been welcomed with open arms and has probably received too many T-shirts to count and enough bags of candy to last them the entire year. This could only mean one thing. Three and a half weeks post-Bid Day—we are in the midst of Big-Little season!
I am a PC’14, and I do not have any brothers or sisters of my own, so joining a sorority giving me 250 sisters was slightly overwhelming. A Big made this 250 seem smaller. Now that I am on the other side of it and looking for my Little, I find it absurdly difficult to explain the feeling when you meet “the one.” You get a new buddy each week and meet the most amazing girls on the planet. Sometimes, you meet one girl and have thoughts of “Where have you been all my life?” and contemplate the idea of possibly being separated at birth. Once you have these thoughts, it almost turns into a game. Every time you are about to text her, you run the message by your friends to make sure it isn’t too obvious that you are obsessed. You pick out the cutest T-shirts and game day pins to put in her mailbox. You like and comment on every Instagram photo she posts saying, “so hawt” or, “ily a milli” just to remind her that you are still in existence. It is a similar scenario to having a crush on a guy. Yes, I know, we girls overthink that stuff, too. Once this period of awkward girl flirting and endless trips to Mochi is over, the Bigs receive their Littles and thus Big-Little week commences.
Arguably, Big-Little week is the best time of the year. You receive presents everyday—from more candy and more T-shirts to bulletin boards made especially for you. Your Big writes you a note from the heart—one of the more serious parts of the week, but it truly allows you to see how much love she already has for you even though you don’t even know who it is yet! You get to turn around to your Big tackling you on Big-Little Reveal. You have an entire family (Big, G-big, GG-big, cousins etc.) wanting to finally express their love to you. They have been “waiting for the Littlest’” for weeks now as you can see in their Instagram recruitment photo captions. You meet the whole family. You take at least 100 pictures, and you have your first ever fam dinner that night at a place of your choice. You dress up that night in crazy costumes. This part is definitely the most stressful for the Big because they have been trying to plan the perfect costume for a whole year ever since they became a Little.
At the end of the day, it isn’t about the pictures or the candy or the costumes. It is about finding your family within an even bigger family and finding your person that will be a part of college life and even your life after that.
