I'm not impressed with fraternities at all

In July, I saw this video pop up onto the popular videos feed on the main YouTube page.

 I was really interested at why a video like this was even considered to be "trendy" enough to appear on the YouTube homepage as a trending video.  All I saw in that video was just a bunch of (white) people partying with discarded cups all around them while the floor was wet from something... (Either it had rained prior to the video's recording or the partiers had spilled a lot of alcohol.)

The video got me thinking... For some reason, I've always been afraid of college.  If you knew me personally, this fear might seem unfounded for I would be called a "diligent student" by my teachers and peers.  The fears stem from not the academic rigors of university education but social interactions.  It mostly involves fitting in.

For me, there are three stereotypes that are always fixed unto college students in the media, whether it is a sensualized Hollywood movie to adults talking about how "the whole world's going down the drain these days."  Those three things are namely:
1)  Partying.  Particularly partying extremely hard.  Extra points for frat/soro exclusive parties.
2)  Being hipsters.  This mostly stems from the extreme arrogance and self-imagined nonconformity as a by-product from studying subjects and topics that at least 50% of the world's population would never even dream of thinking about.
3)  Forever in debt.  I guarantee that 90% of all college textbooks, if bought brand new in plastic wrap, cost over $500.  Let alone all the crazy fees for college tuition and housing.  (You can only imagine all the electronic devices and other things you could get if it were not for college.)

The stereotype that is relevant to this post is about partying, particularly fraternities and sororities.

I am not afraid to say that I have never truly felt like I've ever fit in with almost any group of people at my age.  They almost always seem to be too concerned with who said what and it's even worse today with people almost always checking their smartphones for notifications from Facebook, Instagram, and every single mobile app that exists in the app markets.  (I hope I do not sound too much like an old geezer ranting.)

Fraternities and sororities only make me feel worse about myself.  I am already extremely nonconformant (in a creative way and fortunately not in a vapid way as of the hipsters) and I would never do anything stupid and foolish in order to gain the ultimately trivial acceptance of a group of trivial human beings.

Well, I got a bunch of facetious definitions of what a fraternity is from Urban Dictionary.
(Here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fraternity&defid=1545131)
(... And here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fraternity&defid=6241540)

I also got some advice about how fraternities essentially don't matter to every person.  (Here it is: http://www.youniversitytv.com/news-general/5573-should-i-join-a-college-fraternity)

I also found an ABC story about countering hazing in fraternities.  It seems kind of contradictory to me because it seems that fraternities and hazing go hand in hand.  I know that fraternities may not be all like National Lampoon's Animal House but at the same time college partying is not a myth.  (The story's here: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fraternity-group-lobbies-hazing-reform/story?id=19766121)

Also, I found out that all the twitter handles that were displayed at the end of the video do exist.  (And they all seem to have a likeness of the people who would actually put up a video like that.)
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Perhaps I shouldn't care so much about a pretentious group of people who don't really matter to me or my life goals...