Halloween In College Is More Trouble Than It's Worth
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Halloween In College Is More Trouble Than It's Worth

I may just wear a cat shirt and call it a night.

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Halloween In College Is More Trouble Than It's Worth
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Being a freshman in college presents a new and unique dilemma: how to dress for Halloween. There's a few different types of girls you will find in college. There's the girls who will wear exactly what you think of when you think about college Halloween costumes. There's the girls who go the funny rout (an option on my friends' lists were frat boys). Then there's those who don't dress up because they are A) embarrassed, B) to busy and tired to care, or C) broke; the latter being the most predominant excuse. Each of the three types of people comes with its own challenges and all of them take more time and thought than should ever be spent on a costume. It's actually really funny, in college no one really cares what any one else does and everyone sort of does what they want. Senoritis really carries over into freshman year and you don't give a thought about what others think of you.. until Halloween. Everyone puts more thought into it than they should because there's a party and they want to look acceptable. Almost all of my friends (and myself) are still at a lost as to what they should be and Halloween is tomorrow.

I'm in this weird middle ground where I don't want to dress up unless I go all out but I don't have the money right now to do so. Also, I want to wear a costume that is acceptable for a college party but I don't want to wear what is acceptable for a college party; ya feel? Being at Baylor makes this a little easier; the norm here isn't what it is at most colleges. However, I find myself still feeling like I need to do something to appear older and to seem like I fit in. I've never cared what people thought about me, why is it that a college Halloween party has me worrying about that now? I'm not concerned about being judged for not wearing a dress that reveals every aspect of my body, but I am worried about showing my age. I don't want people to see my costume and know that I'm a freshman.

Why is it that the norm in college is to wear the most revealing thing you can find and come up with a way to make it a Halloween costume? I've never understood it and I won't conform to that. I don't want to get into the morality of it or anything; if you want to do that, go for it. I just don't feel comfortable presenting myself that way. That being said, what on earth am I going to wear for Halloween? It's the end of the month which means I have no money to buy an actual costume and even if I could, I probably wouldn't know what to buy. This holiday is such a struggle and when you're in college you don't even get candy for it. What's the point?!

Honestly, dressing up for Halloween is so much more trouble than it's worth. I'm over it already; I may just wear a cat shirt and call it a night.

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