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5 Ways to Get Spooky This October

Here are some easy and affordable ways to get into the Autumn spirit

Zachary Kier

Oct 09, 2017

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We are now officially in the month of October, or the month of Halloween if you're a dedicated fan like myself. This is the time where ghouls and ghosts rule the scene, and the easily frightened watch themselves around every corner. If you're looking to get into this hallowed holiday, here are five easy and affordable ways.

Pumpkin/ apple picking

Not only will it force you to leave your dorm room, (remember that promise you made to yourself January 1st to lose weight and exercise more?) it is a great way to enjoy the crisp fall air and get some yummy treats. Whether you go apple or pumpkin picking, you're guaranteed to have a great time and a memorable afternoon

2. Ready to Bake Halloween cookies

Everyone's favorite ready to bake cookies are back for the season! All you have to do is take them out of the package and place them on a baking sheet and then in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. They come in fun shapes such as bats, pumpkins, and ghost printed cookies.

3. Go to a haunted hayride

A deviation from the standard haunted house, a haunted hayride puts you out in the open where monsters can come right up and grab you! Some places will allow their actors to touch and pull at your legs, some will not. Either way, a trip through the woods will never be the same after the hayride is concluded, if you make it through.

4.Go to a corn maze

A perfect way to pay homage to the most important crop in American history, a corn maze is a perfect fall activity. It will bring you and your group closer together as you try and navigate your way out of the never-ending stalks of corn.

5. EAT!

Along with fall comes some of the best foods of the year. Apple and pumpkin pies, apple cider, apple doughnuts, butternut squash and candied apples are just a few fall foods.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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