With Halloween creeping closer and closer, there isn’t much time left for students to pull together their costumes for this year’s slew of Halloweekend parties. 

Many find themselves reminiscing on what they feel was their best, often being the times they pulled together handmade getups or went all out, going so far as to shave their heads to complete the look.

Emmett Penny, second-year animal sciences major:

“When I was in my sophomore year of high school, I dressed up as the Winter Soldier and I made the arm myself (out of trash bags and duct tape).”

Lauren Anderson, second-year food science and sustainable technology major:

“My mom made me this Renaissance princess dress. (She) made a hat, like a little cone hat to go with it. And that was like, probably, like fifth grade … I helped her pick out all the fabric (at the) store and I picked out all the colors that I like.”

Joey Ernst, second-year oceanography major:

“I’m gonna have to go with now, because it’s funny. I’m gonna go as Garfield, and then my other costume is going to be the Cheshire cat.”

Bracey Rogers, fourth-year business administration major:

“This year I’m going with a group as Alvin and the Chipmunks, even though I gotta wear a bald cap.”

Jacob Goldstein, fourth-year biochemistry major:

“I once shaved my head fully and went as Mr. Clean … You could stick a plunger on my head.”

Sarah Goluska, fourth-year animal sciences major:

“My junior year of high school, when I went as a ghost pirate. I did skeleton makeup … It stained my face.”

Alex Boot, second-year animal sciences major:

“I think my best was probably sometime in elementary school, I think fifth grade. I dressed up as a skeleton thing from Minecraft, and then I painted a (real) white horse black, so it had skeleton makeup.”