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<p>Assuming that he is a math or science major, are honors courses available and is he taking them? Such courses may be another place for him to meet other students who are more intellectually curious than perhaps the typical student at a big state university. (And if that is the issue, joining a fraternity may not solve the problem, since fraternities are likely to be made of fairly typical students in this respect.)</p>