Rah Rah for Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon, Iota, Kappa, and Lambda whatever you are. It’s that season to choose the new members to one day hold the spot you’re standing in now. For some, this is an emotional journey, for others this could be the happiest day of your life and others will be overcome with homework, exams, and will need to be taken to Starbucks to cool down.

Now is the time to look to your sisters and realize this is your last chance to leave a mark and leave an impact on your chapter. This is your last recruitment to bring in strong leaders, influential, creative, smart, beautiful, down to earth girls to join the chapter. Remember it like it was yesterday, some have joined as a freshman and have been there through it all since the very beginning. Some came in as sophomores and quickly jumped into this crazy sisterhood and as for the juniors and seniors that joined, their maturity was something the chapter needed to be fully complete.

Seniors, you are now a tight knit group of leaders; it’s up to you to lead the rest of the chapter into one last fall recruitment.

For old gran-bigs that are experiencing one last recruitment, take it all in. Those women take notice; they are the least negative people in the room due to an overwhelming feeling of pride and achievement. The seniors have pref’d, house toured, and recruited all of the younger girls in the room, and to see them waiting eagerly to recruit new sisters the way they have always recruited them is a memory they will cherish and hold dear for the rest of their life. Seeing each other’s success, and each other’s happiness is an indescribable feeling that they will only manage to express in smiles and tears in-between each round.

New members coming through, these women saw something incredible in you that you will never understand until your old and in the same shoes, they are walking in now. Your excitement and nerves are so innocent, so pure and they cannot wait to help you find your new home and your place in the chapter. Seniors will reflect and talk as if they are already gone, just go with it. Give them an extra hug, write them an extra love note, and keep asking them questions, they love getting to know the new members.

This organization you women joined, you can vouch; it’s not just four years, it really is for life. As seniors stand in front of new members on their final bid day with so much warmth, love and support. They know adulthood is right around the corner, but this day will continue on, every day of recruitment, especially bid day is infinite. The memories, the glitter, the tears, and laughter that day will be the reason they triple post on Instagram for the next week and a half.

New members welcome home! You are in for the most bumpy, wonderful experience in your life. This is only the beginning; enjoy growing up with these women. Seniors will leave you with plenty of advice and chapter apparel. Once they graduate and enter the alumni system keep in mind, the rest of your sisters are there to encourage, empower and pick you and others up when needed.

To those initiated women, seniors wish for you to continue being the bright young women they have molded you into. They leave their legacy with you, and most importantly, THEY LOVE YOU. You initiated women are the little sisters they never had. You have ticked them off, made them hate you, made them cry, made them love, made them happy, made them completely and overly obsessed with you.

Your sisterhood is the farthest thing from fake. You don’t sit there and tell people you all get along, because you know damn well you don’t. There are days you want to rip out a sister’s hair but let’s be real, what biological siblings don’t? At the end of the day, it’s about saying sorry, picking each other up and being there for one another. You courageous women, have made the seniors grow up and turn into the woman they have always wanted to be.

This last fall recruitment was filled with some of the best memories of my collegiate career. Thank you so much for the beautiful, heart-warming ceremony. Thanks for screaming chants until we were light-headed and lost our voices. Thanks for being there to get coffee, Chinese food, and ice cream at all hours of the day and night. You women, have done so much for me and I can’t thank you enough. I’ve grown up here and each and every one of you I truly consider family. I’m proud to be a Gamma Kappa.

Congratulations to all sorority’s on one hell of a fall recruitment.