Last year at this time I was going through college Orientation as well as prepping for sorority recruitment. For many sorority women this is the most exciting time of the year. My chapter shares this view; recruitment is both the most nervous and exciting time of the year.

Every year sororities hunker down in their chapter room all huddled around their recruitment director. Their recruitment director goes over the plan for the week, the theme, what conversations to have with PNM’s- potential new members-, and she hypes everyone up.

It’s a magical time of the year when every chapter prepares to welcome new women into their wonderful chapters. Everyone watches as the PNM’s file into the room and beautiful bonds are formed.

People always ask how you can determine if someone is right with such little time. It’s easy to tell which girls are right for you and which would be better in a different house. As cliche as it sounds you just know when someone is right for your chapter.

This year I’m partaking in my first formal recruitment and I cannot be more excited. Informal recruitment was great; it was relaxed and allowed for a calm environment to get to know the girls. I predict that formal recruitment will exciting, stressful, and eyeopening.

It will bring in a whole new group of girls excited to join. In chapters across the country we are adding a new generation like our Founders did oh so many years ago. This new generation will help shape and enhance our chapters and push them forward.

They say that this day is like Christmas and it is. It's close to the start of a new year- initiation- and a whole new generation. Each pledge class shapes a chapter in their own way. I'm excited to see how this pledge class will shape my chapter.