<p>Again, I must completely disagree with the previous poster. I have been at UIUC for 4 year, and have had no problems the whole time, both as an independent and as an engineer. When I was younger, I went to Greek parties for all the rush stuff and just never joined because it wasn’t my thing, yet I still had an active social life. All you need is a couple friends and you have yourself a group to have a party with, go out with, stay in with, or whatever you might want. I did not experience any limitation on what I could do based on my non-Greek status, and I am sorry that the previous poster did. Take3 must have just got unlucky in that regard.</p>
<p>That said, it WOULD be a lot harder to find things to do as an independent if all of your friends from the first couple weeks decide to go Greek while you don’t, but that doesn’t always happen, and it didn’t happen to me.</p>