With Halloween only a few weeks away, University students think back to their childhood and reminisce on their favorite memories.
Mass communication junior Mackenzie Trahan
“When I was about 13 I think, that year when was I like, ‘Do I really need to go trick-or-treating, am I too old for this?’ And then we went to my grandmother’s house where we always went trick-or-treating, and I decided I’m going to throw a last minute costume together, I can’t stop, I’m only 13. So I took my grandmother’s nightgowns and I’m like, ‘I’m a sleepyhead, and that’s what I’m gonna be for halloween.’ It doesn’t matter, I’m still young, I’m still a kid, they’ll still give me candy. And they actually did, and I was dressed in literally my grandmother’s nightgown.”
Human resources senior Natalie Schexanydre
“I went up to this huge house and the woman opened the door, and she had this huge box and she gave me one piece of candy. It was the smallest Kit-Kat I’ve ever seen, and I just stood there waiting for more. She had the biggest attitude and I was so young and I was like, ‘I mean I’m hungry!’”
Marketing junior Travis Tapia
“My family is very religious so they didn’t really believe in Halloween, even though I was always participating in it. My school was a private school [and] we would have a fall fest, so no one would really dress up…they had this maze thing made out of cardboard boxes and I remember standing behind one of the doors, and I would scare people.”
Marketing junior Daniel Murray
“Whenever I was like 11-years-old, my mom and dad were out of town so they really couldn’t like take me out trick-or-treating. My sister was, and she’s 8 years older than me, so she kind of took over for my mom in that scenario, and I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to be, so she like put together like a hodge-podge of a skeleton, a vampire, a werewolf and a zombie costume for me and took me trick-or-treating. It was pretty great, it was one of the last times I ever went trick-or-treating.
Environmental engineering sophomore Sammie Parks
“I dressed as Mother Theresa and played church games instead of going trick-or-treating. I went to a Catholic school and there was this Halloween party, so they were like come play church games and dress as your favorite saint.”
Business junior Emily Morris
“In my neighborhood, there’s this one strip on the side of the street and it’s all bushes with a fence. Me and my friend were trick-or-treating, and we were very scared, it was so eerie. All of a sudden, we walk past a bush and this guy hops out of the … bushes with a mask on and a fake chainsaw, and chases us down the street. Literally so scared.”
