Some successful people are just hard to picture getting wild in a frat house. But at one point or another, that was a reality for men such as:

1. William Faulkner, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. University of Mississippi. William Faulkner is one of the most respected American authors of all time, best known for his novels, "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying." He also published poems, essays and even screenplays. However, few would have guessed that he would be so successful by looking at his college days. Faulkner skipped classes frequently, received a D in English and flunked out after only three semesters. It’s safe to say, that he may have partied a little too hard.

2. Brad Pitt, Sigma Chi. University of Missouri. Seeing him among other reckless, testosterone-fueled men in Fight Club, maybe it’s not so hard to picture Brad Pitt in his fraternity days. Brad was yet another famous college dropout, having left school only two weeks and two credits short of completing his journalism major. Despite the  dangerous persona he often portrays in his movies, those who knew him in college say he was actually pretty tame and tended to stay out of trouble.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright, Phi Delta Theta. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Frank Lloyd Wright is best known for designing the building known as Fallingwater, and also for being the only architect whom most people actually know by name. He didn’t last long in college. He dropped out before his third semester, but not before joining Phi Delta Theta. Perhaps the wildness of the fraternity house helped to inspire some of the wild houses he would build later in life.

4. David Schwimmer, Delta Tau Delta. Northwestern University. It’s hard to imagine the awkward, bookish, paleontologist from Friends ever living in a fraternity, but it’s true.  Schwimmer wanted to skip college entirely to pursue acting, but his parents insisted that he go so that he’d have something to fall back on. Perhaps his role as a military captain in Band of Brothers provides a glimpse of how he might have approached pledge education.

5. Every member of Broken Lizard, Beta Theta Pi. Colgate University. Most frat guys think, at one point or another, that they and their brothers make a perfect comedic team, but these guys actually decided to make a career out of it. If you haven’t heard of of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme and Paul Soter, then you've probably at least heard of their movies, which include Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest. Before settling on the name, Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe was known as Charred Goosebeak, a name which is still given to Colgate University’s improv club today.

6. John Goodman, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Missouri State University. That’s right, before he pledged Oozma Kappa as Sully in Monsters University, John Goodman had his own fraternity adventures. He’s known for playing big, strong characters like Sully, Pacha from Emperor’s New Groove, and Walter from The Big Lebowski, so it’s no surprise that he attended college on a football scholarship and only dabbled in theater on the side. He is still, reportedly, close with many of his college friends and fraternity brothers.

7. Dr. Seuss, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Dartmouth College. Speaking of famous Sigeps, Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, was also an active fraternity member when he was in college. Without his wild college antics, he might never have adopted the moniker by which we all know him. After getting caught in his room drinking gin with his friends, Theodor was forced to resign from all extracurricular activities, including writing for Dartmouth’s humor magazine, The Jack O Lantern. In yet another act of rebellion, he continued publishing stories under the pseudonym ‘Seuss.’ The ‘Dr.’ part wasn’t added until after he left grad school.

8. Will Ferrell, Delta Tau Delta. University of Southern California. Okay, so maybe it’s not so hard to picture Will Ferrell as a frat guy. He admits that even then he was a prankster, saying, "I would find out what classroom certain friends were in, and then dress up as a janitor and show up in the middle of class [...] I would stand outside the door with a power drill and just pretend like I was working on stuff, so I'd do stuff like that. And I killed one person."