That’s right, THE fraternity house. At Boise State, Kappa Sigma is the only fraternity to have a house. This lovely, mostly 70’s-esque house (it’s actually two old houses dating around the early to mid-Cold War) offers many opportunities that no BSU student should pass up.

1.

Learn useful skills such as cooking for yourself. Don’t worry about someone getting in your way trying to make your food like other fraternities! We don’t have a cook so preparing your food can be all up to you.

2.

Get experienced in home improvement. There are always plenty of projects that can be worked on, and if something isn’t being worked on, there’s generally another project being created for you to do.

3.

Simulate using a Laundromat. Even though this is your own home, it’s always important to be used to budgeting for paying for laundry. You never know when an opportunity will knock and you’ll have to move to an apartment in a large town.

4.

Don’t worry about roommates getting too friendly with themselves right next door. The near-antique modems and routers can’t support the bandwidth necessary to stream or easily download anything.

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A chance to enjoy a paranormal encounter. How many fraternity houses actually used to be an old folks home? Only God truly knows how many souls were reaped from potentially any of the rooms? There’s also the tale of the axe-murderer who lived in the old front part of the house (a single home originally built in late 1940s.) With this much history, the odds to be haunted by a spirit have got to be phenomenal!*

*These claims not endorsed by any professional spirit seeker groups, just frat boys with too much time on their hand.

Even with all these qualities (or not) the chapter house is still my home and also one of the best places to live around campus.