Which one's better: socials or date functions? When you read that you probably answered it in your head because people typically have strong preferences towards this subject. Those who picked date functions usually have a boyfriend. Those who sided with socials are usually the single ones. Socials are wonderful because not only are you not required to bring a date of any kind, but it is a place where you can actually meet new people (it's possible but unlikely) and food is also provided.
Date functions, however, a different story.
You're sitting in chapter and your social chair announces you have a date function next month and your immediate first thought is "Oh God, I only have 38 days to find someone to take." While all of your friends around you who have significant others are smiling and excited for it, you are reduced to heart palpitations and a cold sweat.
"It's going to be a game-time decision," you say.
Well naturally, you ignore the fact you have to find someone to take for the next three weeks because if you ignore something, it will definitely go away. So, now thanks to your lovely procrastination skills, you have about two weeks to find a date. Easier said than done.
You think about all your options and lay them down on the playing field. You could take some guy who lives on the same floor as you. There's the option of taking someone from high school, because "you guys like know each other already so it won't be awkward." Or do you take a girl in another sorority because you know it won't get weird when you see each other after the date function. You could go for a complete random who you have never talked to before, which is also the most likely of all the choices.
So it becomes apparent the random date is what you're going to be working with and you're just praying it will go smoothly. The next step is to have someone post in any and all GroupMes they are in saying that "you're super cool and looking for a date for the date function next week!"
You wait patiently for your angel of a friend (or wingman) to text you with the name of the guy who has so bravely volunteered to be your date for the night.
Finally, the day of the date function comes around and you text him saying how excited you are for tonight and maybe talk about what you two are wearing, who knows. You contemplate all day wondering how much like yourself you should act because you can't afford to scare them off the first night.
You finally meet the kind fella and talk it up a little and have a grand ole time and you wonder why you were ever worried in the first place.
That is until formal comes around.
