As a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Brad Pitt acted in several fraternity shows. As graduation approached, Pitt saw his friends getting jobs but did not feel ready to settle down himself. He loved films—"a portal into different worlds for me"—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided he would go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Brad Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles to take acting lessons.