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10 Struggles Potential Sorority Members Face During Recruitment

Because no matter how many times you hear "trust the system," it's true.

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10 Struggles Potential Sorority Members Face During Recruitment
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For incoming freshman girls, there are many exciting things to look forward when it comes to their upcoming college career.

Meeting new people, getting away from home, taking classes you actually care about, gaining independence- and for a particular group of girls- joining a sorority. Girls chanting their songs in such unison it's almost scary. Girls banging on doors so intensely you’d think the doors of the houses would have collapsed by now. And enough small talk to last you a century. You've heard the horror stories, yet you can’t wait to actually experience it for yourself. From laughter to tears, there’s truly no experience like sorority recruitment.

What can I say, trust the system ladies.

10 struggles that every potential sorority member experiences during recruitment:

1. Censoring every photo posted and every sentence tweeted on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

And you thought the only person you had to worry about seeing that red solo cup was your Grandma.

2. Not only censoring all forms of social media, but censoring your wardrobe.


Those school approved shorts you wore on dress down days that had to be six inches from the knee, time to bring those back out. Oh yes, time to whip out the Bermuda.

3. Speaking of your wardrobe, realizing that no matter what you have on, it will be drenched in sweat by the end of the day.


Between the tragic combination of 90 degree August heat and nervousness, we’re all doomed.

4. When your face is so numb from smiling all day that you can barely move your mouth.


Forcing a smile for five plus hours of the day takes a toll.

5. You've repeated the same introduction spiel in every house, to the point where you can recite it without even using your brain.


Your lips may be moving but you’ve lost control of your thoughts by now. It’s truly word vomit.

6. Given your nerves and anticipation, word vomit isn’t your only worry.


Sometimes your thoughts become so jumbled and frantic that you begin to develop a stutter and can no longer articulate what you’re trying to say. Are you even speaking English anymore?

7. By the time you've trekked from your dorm to the sorority houses so many times you've lost track, you realize that you've nearly set FitBit records and exceeded the recommended daily steps by thousands.


Who knew socializing could be such a great workout?

8. Once your stutter miraculously self-heals, you begin to realize that this speaking to a girl one on one for 45 minutes maybe isn’t so bad.


You start to develop girl crushes and attempt to stalk them on every form of social media. Sparks are flying.

9. You've narrowed it down to your favorite houses and have finally reached the anxiously awaited holy day-pref day.


It’s like Christmas Eve, you know you’re going to get a great gift, but you’re not quite sure what it is yet. Expect tears.

10. And the highly anticipated Bid day has finally arrived. You rip open your envelope as if your life depends on it.


A stampede of girls rushing to the sorority house. You make it to the lawn of your house and look around at all your new sisters, realizing there’s truly no place like home.


Go get 'em girls.

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