The Hard Days

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Also this is the time of year when everyone's kind of sick of each other and the seniors especially are being pains in the rump.

I find that tension in a sorority builds in a certain pattern over the year.

Beginning of the school year (around August or so): Happy happy joy joy. Everyone has just moved into the house. Everone just LOVES each other and is super excited.

First month of school/recruitment prep time: People are still loving each other, but small disagreements starting to pop up. It's still early in the year so everyone sings "kumbaya" and gets over it.

Recruitment: Stress and drama start to build. The "kumbaya" is starting to lose its power. You're kind of tired of looking at these people every day and night for a week.

Bid Day (mid sept): Any building disagreements are put aside because YAY NEW MEMBERS.

Homecoming (Octoberish-Novemberish): The disagreements are back. The drama that started during recruitment is back because the "yay new members" has worn off. House girls are starting to annoy each other with their annoying habits. The selection of NM bigs may also occur during this time. This may flat out pit 2 sisters against each other. Sides may or may not be taken. The "kumbaya" and holding hands singing sorority songs apprach is not working.

Winter break: THANK GOD. Everybody goes home for awhile and all drama is suspended.

Januaryish: Officer election time. Drama that has been building since recruitment has resurfaced for slating/elections. Elections cause complete and total uproar. There may or may not be crying. It is guaranteed that at least 2 people will threaten to quit. lol. House girls annoyance may finally blow up. There may or may not be crying or threatening to move out.

February-March: Fall-out from election drama still exists. Current officers are literally counting down the days til May. Seniors are burned out and wonder why they still have to come around. Cue complianing. New members are now initiated. Cue more complaining from them about drama they didn't even know existed.

April-May: Everyone begins to see the light at the end of tunnel. Drama settles. Seniors start to look back and get nostalgic. They stop complaining. New Members have realized that drama is part of life. Warm and fuzzy activities like formal, senior talks, etc. smooth over the drama. New girls choose to live in house and are OMG SO EXCITED about it and think it's going to be the BEST EVAR. Current house girls look back on year and realize that it was fun, but that they are looking forward to living in their own apts. Seniors graduate. Everyone cries. They all go home. Cycle repeats itself.

Drama in EVERY chapter seems to follow the same pattern. So don't sweat it.