Anyone a member of a fraternity in college?

Im sure there stuff Frats/Sororities do that are good but not for me. I dont like to be uniformed with a group of people. I prefer to stand out on my own.

I went to community college but even if I dormed, I'd never be in a frat.

Frats were never my thing. I stayed far away from it while in college.

I am a freemason

Point Park University Basketball Fraternity: Home Base, My Freaking Dorm

No, I wasn't. But I might as well have been with my roommates. I got put in a dorm with three of the school's basketball players, one of whom was the new captain. The neighbors called against our dorm so many times it was insane. They were nice guys, but every night was a damn team party. I got on really well with Tyrone (TJ), to the point of both of us getting sick of getting marks against us we moved my roommate J'remy into the room with the captain, Art, and TJ in with me. We told dorm life we did that and then they stopped ragging on me and TJ because weren't the ones (usually) causing problems.

I wasn't a ball player or nothing, but I always did shoot around with them. I was good in the center because I was taller than them, and most of the team in general I just couldn't land shots consistently. I did get to suit up at the end of the season though. Hung around the gym and helped in practice as a glorified water and errand boy because I was free labor and I hung out with TJ a LOT, coach let me run suicides with the team for the sake of keeping in shape (really laid back place) and when the starting center broke his leg, the coach said he needed a bench warmer to fill the spot of the backup for the backup in a lost season. Filled out all the necessary paperwork and physical for the NAIA and for four games I was officially in the KIAC as a walk-on. My name is in the record books...somewhere as a roster member. Go figure, the next season when I graduate they win the KIAC title and get a bid to the NAIA tournament. My luck. That would have been an experience.

But for the frat aspect, I mentioned the parties. There were nights where these guys, and the team, were blaring music from 8pm till 5-6am, drinking the entire time, still piss drunk waking up to their 9am alarms. I can count on both hands how many times the three of them, combined, went to classes one semester. And go figure: C's across the board for Art and J to remain academically eligible. Tyrone, even though he never went, was legit smart AF and always got Bs (would have been As but, well, attendence killed that). The dude could solve calculus crap in his head, coulda been a brilliant mathematician if he'd have taken stuff seriously.

So technically, no. I wasn't in a frat. No hazing. No monetary dues paid. Just accidentally wound up on the basketball team by hanging out with the basketball team because they were always in my damn room.

Not a bad experience, mind you. I'm not a drinker, and I value sleep. But some times it was fun. Won $200 in an NBA2k tourney we did on one of the nights we didn't get called on. They underestimated my knowledge of virtual basketball...and how to shoot threes with Steph because we drew lots for who got the good teams since they all loved LeBron and Steph but I knew I wasn't beating them with the Celtics at that time and I won that one. Hehe.

Interesting. My fraternity founders include many Freemasons. In fact I was initiated with a mason and he said the ritual was scary close at times to the Masonic one.