Halloween at Lehigh

Halloween at Lehigh was a very interesting event. Experiencing this holiday in college is much different than what I encountered back home on the streets of my suburb in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am so used to handing out candy to the children in their fairy and batman outfits, that I wasn’t even sure what to expect here at Lehigh. Little did I know how much I would miss the youthful innocence of being at home for Halloween. As the movie “Mean Girls” states: “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” Lehigh is no exception to this statement – nor do I think any other college is. Since when do girls need to feel pretty by dressing in short skirts and skimpy tops? Why can’t everyday clothes do the trick? Could someone do a psychological analysis about this? I’m sure they could, and I’m sure they already have. It just boggles my mind when I think back on the past three nights. Thursday night was relatively tame compared to Friday and Saturday. Since it wasn’t truly Halloween yet, I assumed people assumed that the “sluttiness factor” should be fairly low, and as it got closer to Halloween, they could move up on the scale. This assumption was one hundred percent correct. I truly came to this realization when sitting in the Hawks Nest – Lehigh’s late-night food source – people watching (one of my favorite past-times). As I surveyed the people walking in and out of this establishment, I was shocked to see the amount of skin showing. It was almost as if there was a contest to see how much of your body one could show without being completely nude. Personally, I’m not a fan of such competitions. There is no doubt that I enjoyed my Halloween despite the array of costumes, because there are always the people who do Halloween right and actually dress up – nerds, Mario and Luigi, superman, buzz lightyear, etc. After my first college Halloween, I am now prepared for how many people in today’s world think. It is entertaining to think about how the times have changed since my parents’ first Halloween in college. I can only imagine. All in all, Halloween at Lehigh was a great experience, and now I am prepared for the mindset of college students on this particular holiday.