[AlphaXi_Husky]

What surprised me most was that other people weren't as excited as I was for Recruitment! I loved Recruitment (still do) and was actually quite shocked to learn that some people can't stand it. Just not their cup of tea.

Other things (which I think most have probably been mentioned here):
- How close you get to people you didn't know before. I made some really great friendships with people I previously barely knew before Recruitment
- How many "rush crushes" I would have. I loved most girls I spoke with. Except for a couple who were just biatches, which brings me to...
- How rude some people can be. I get that girls may not have felt like my chapter was the right place for them, but seriously, there was no reason for the glares and refusals to provide more than one word answers. That part was gut-wrenching.
- How much cleaning is involved! We were constantly cleaning the house - it had to be spotless! And with 60+ girls in it 24/7, it got messy quickly.
- How door chants/songs worked. I always wondered how all those people fit into a tiny doorway, and how they piled up so high in it. It never occured to me that people were using chairs - duh!

This last one is a realization that came from being an advisor - I remember there being a lot of what, as a collegian, I thought was "wasted" time, where I would just be sitting around pretending to talk to an imaginary PNM while the membership team would be talking amongst themselves. Only when I was part of the team did I realize that there are a lot of logistics to figure out and you need the bodies in place to figure out those logistics.