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Bid day is such a wonderful thing. New members, food, picture taking, and so much more. My bid day was today, so as I'm writing this I'm getting so excited about how amazing today went. Bid day is one of the most exciting times for the chapter and the amount of work that goes into it is insane. Because bid day is so amazing, and the TV show Friends is equally as amazing, I decided to put the two together to lay down the basics of bid day.

1. You start by singing the new members in, holding props and dressing for the theme.

2. Your whole chapter is WAY too excited to have new members in the house that you can't contain yourself.

3. You're all helping each other look good because there are SO many picture opportunities.

4. Giving house tours to the new members like...

5. When there is so much food that it's all you can think about.

6. The new members are on their way to the house...

7. But then you force yourself to remember this is fun and everything is going to go as planned.

8. At first the new members don't know how to act, but once they see you so excited they get super excited too.

9. When they say "there's extra food" once bid day is over.

10. Then this is you after...

11. Not knowing how to talk to a new member because you want to impress her but you end up being weird.

12. When you already love the new members so much that you feel like you're they're school mom.

13. When you love your bid day theme so much and go way too hard but so does everyone else so it doesn't matter.

14. When the music is blasting and you can't help to dance to throwback songs with your favorite people (a.k.a. your sisters).

15. When you literally do everything you can to impress the new members and end up embarrassing yourself.

16. At the end of bid day, after a day filled with singing, food, picture taking, mingling, dancing, and more, you're so exhausted and end up looking like this.

Being in a sorority is so amazing, and bid day is just one of those amazing things that you get to be a part of when you join a chapter. It's the thing that brings a long but fun week or two of recruitment to a close, and it's the best celebration for your chapter and for the new members. I can't stress enough how much you should appreciate everything that goes into making bid day as amazing as it is, because the behind the scenes work is way more than you can imagine. I give major props to anyone who has ever planned a bid day. I hope that all of the Friends and bid day lovers out there were just as inspired by this as I was.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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