Shawn Collins pledged a fraternity in fall 1988 and kept a diary of his experiences.
It was summer 1991, and the lease on my Knox Box apartment was up. I hadn’t renewed it because I was moving into the fraternity house for the next year. So, I crashed at the frat with a few other guys until Hell Week was set to start and we would settle into our rooms….
I always enjoyed writing, and the first time I saw my name in print was for my elementary school newspaper. It was just a photocopied publication of maybe six pages, but I loved being a part of it. When middle school came around, we didn’t have a paper, but we did in high school, and…