It seems like the school year just started. But of course, pretty much every Old Navy has stopped selling khaki pants and your professor has probably mentioned something about your class final already.

Now that Halloween has passed, society would pretty much agree that the season of fall itself has passed. It's November, which means the Thanksgiving/Christmas mega holiday season is upon us. While there isn't anything about the Christmas season you could hate, there is a small pain in all of our hearts knowing pumpkin spice is soon to be replaced by peppermint mocha and gingerbread (but I'm not complaining).

Before we allow ourselves to be bombarded by Thanksgiving plans and Christmas commercials, it's important for us to take a moment of reflection for the holiday that was Halloween. Vastly underrated and never truly appreciated until it's gone, we usually don't acknowledge the fact that it's coming up until almost mid-October while Christmas gets pretty much two whole months of America's (and moms') undivided attention.

I don't know about you, but I always thought that preparing for Halloween was actually really fun. Some people thought choosing a costume was quite difficult, but I found the process of looking and thinking of ideas to be exciting. I also just generally enjoyed watching scary shows and movies to get myself into the spirit. Has anyone else ever gone on YouTube and looked up the Halloween episodes of old Disney Channel shows? No? You definitely should. It's worth it.

There's also all our favorite haunted hayride or walk-through. Even as I got older and began to understand that most of the monsters in those things were really just kids my age, I never actually got over being scared in one of them. They're insanely fun and even better at getting you into a true Halloween spirit than just watching a scary movie.

Finally, Halloween itself has always presented so many opportunities. There is really no wrong way to spend this holiday. While trick or treating (or do you say "Halloweening?") usually dominates your childhood, once you get older you can choose to either stay in by yourself and have your own horror movie marathon with all the lights off or go out and just be with your friends wearing your costumes. Basically, just wear a costume and anything you do passes as celebrating.

Halloween night has always been some of those most fun I have ever had, and I'm sort of sad that it's over. We have a whole year until our next one and we should wait for it eagerly. How many other times in the year can you walk around in a shark suit from Katy Perry's Superbowl performance slightly drunk and not have anyone question you?

So while we are all thinking ahead to the classic Holiday season, let's not forget about the one that just ended. The one that allows you to get silly and crazy and spend a solid good night with your friends, eating excessive amounts of candy in someone's living room while you all wear your group costumes (we all had to be various Will Ferrell characters).

There is really nothing else like it. So when you go to Wal-Mart and see all of the new Christmas decorations that are already up for sale, take a moment of silence for all the Halloween decorations sitting on the clearance shelf.