Sororities. Society has told girls their whole lives that sororities contain girls who buy their friends with their dad's money, who will only get by from their looks because their brains lack, and who party more than they should.

Before I went through recruitment at Mizzou, I heard every single stereotype for every single house. These came from people who went to Mizzou, from people who didn't go to Mizzou, and even from people who had never even stepped foot on campus and didn't know a single person in Greek life. I even had one person tell me specifically to not rush Tri Delta. (LOL at them, am I right?).

Recruitment starts and everything changed, because here's what they didn't tell you.

They didn't tell you, that when you sit down on the couch on the first day of recruitment, that you'd fall in love. That you'd meet a girl and all you'd talk about is Chicago's pizza the whole time, and you feel like you could talk to her for an hour. That you'd see how much love girls truly have for St. Jude and the sweet kids they help. That you'd ugly cry on Sisterhood Day, and then just when you thought you were done crying, you'd cry even harder and uglier on Preference Day because you "just knew."

And then you find yourself a month and a half later wearing no makeup and a messy bun, sitting on a couch with girls who are almost complete strangers, and yet you feel absolutely and completely at home. Because they didn't tell you that joining a sorority meant finding girls who will do anything to support you, even if they don't know you. Girls that will let you borrow a an outfit whenever you want. Girls that will laugh with you until you almost cry. Girls that will offer to help you even if they don't have help or time to give. They didn't tell you that a month into it, you'd know that you found a new family of over 300 girls.

This new family, well, it's a special one. This new family consists of a girl who would hug you and tell you that you're one of the most genuine friends, just because you were being honest with her. And then her kindness would make you cry, because you had never been around girls who were actually kind. That these girls would make the fears of all of your insecurities disappear. They didn't tell you that even before initiation, you would know that these girls aren't just girlfriends or Disters... they're forever. They're girls who are going to be in your wedding, girls you will cry with, girls that stick with you through the stress, girls you will love genuinely for the rest of your life.

But here's the thing...they didn't tell you that these girls love you, but they love you because they are you. They are Tri Delta. You are Tri Delta. And Disters, well, it is so much more than an Instagram caption.