“There’s a block party and then after that, I’m gonna scare the crap out of children,” King said.

As it turns out, when King isn’t scaring kids, he’s quite the party animal. One may even call him a creature of habit, as King believes he will “keep going to parties or keep scaring people” on future Halloween nights. 

King isn’t the only party animal running wild this fall, senior Kierra Getz getz to get down at the retirement home where she works.

“I do get to dress up at my work, so that’s fun… I don’t know what I’ll dress up as, probably something funny for the residents. I could dress up as an old person,” Getz said.

Which does seem like a fitting costume, as Getz feels she’s starting to reach the age where it’s time to settle down and settle in on Halloween.

“I’ve also gotten to that age where it’s too cold outside. I’ll just, you know, look at the little babies and see their costumes, give them candy and then have all the leftover candy,” Getz said.

But it all depends on the year for Getz, who may not be opposed to shunning trick-or-treaters every once in a while.

“There could always be that one year I’m like ‘I don’t want to deal with people, let’s just turn off the light,’” Getz said.

Speaking of spending nights in, freshman Joshua Acosta Gonzalez thinks he’ll spend this Halloween at home with family.

“We don’t know yet. Probably just watching movies and then I’ll just have some time with my mom,”  Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez does his best to get his sisters to go trick-or-treating, like they have in previous years, despite their protests.

“They think it’s lame and I tell them to just appreciate their childhood and go,” Gonzalez said.

We know his heart is in the right place, Gonzalez is keeping trick-or-treating traditions alive!

“I only go because of them. I want them to live their childhood like I did and give them the time that they have before they get older,” Gonzalez said. 

And if all else fails, there’s always a cozy couch and a good old fashioned pumpkin that demands carving.

“Last year I went to a pumpkin patch… After that we just watched movies and chilled,”  Gonzalez said.