As another Halloweekend comes to a close, I am once again left disappointed with my mediocre experience attending several LAME parties. I think people these days have lost track of what Halloween is all about: scaring your friends and loved ones! We must remember that the Halloween party is the perfect vessel for providing this terrifying experience. I have thus compiled a list of epic party ideas for next year that will spice up the social scene while simultaneously disturbing even your bravest friends.
- DIY Escape Room
Everyone loves an escape room, so why not host your own? Give your friends the gift of mortal peril this Halloween and fuel your god complex by making your own escape room! How does it work? Gather your best friends, lead them into your basement, and lock the door. That’s it! What’s more thrilling than the thought that you might die trapped in a basement? Plus, you’ll save loads of money on decor.
- Intervention
You know that friend who hasn’t been themself recently? I bet something’s going on – and they need your help! What better way to do this than by throwing them their very own intervention this Halloween? College schedules make it impossible to get all your friends together at once, so might as well kill two birds with one stone – help out a dear friend and celebrate the holiday all together! I recommend sending out a When2Meet followed by a GCal reminder to keep everyone (except the subject of the intervention) on the same page.
- Hamilton
Nothing is scarier than remembering one’s troubled past. Especially when that past included a Hamilton phase. Gather a group of your favorite IAPA and History concentrators, and put that shit on blast. Get ready for 2 hours and 22 minutes of sheer agony as everyone shamefully tries to hide the fact that they can rap the entirety of “Cabinet Battle #2.” Period wear required, obviously.
- Old Friends party
Remember that gang you ate lunch with in the Ratty every day for 5 months freshman year? I’ll bet you haven’t spoken to them recently! Stir the pot or just make things awkward by inviting all your current friends’ freshmen friend groups to the shindig. They’ll be scared the whole time. Will their old buddies tell all their new friends about the incident…? I sure hope not!
- Your Entire History Class
You always tell that girl you sit next to in history that you guys should hang out sometime, so why not make it official? Pull up GroupMe and invite the whole class – especially the first-row overachievers. Spice things up by including the TA! Upon entry, watch your peers experience sheer terror as you demand a Canvas discussion post in response to a reading they definitely haven’t done. Not only will they be extremely unsettled, but every subsequent discussion session will be super awkward.
While the weekend parties may have fallen flat, there’s hope! We still have two days of Hallo-festivities, and who says the scaring has to stop there! We are living in a world of endless horrors! And if you can’t come up with anything, you can always just ask your friends about their post-grad plans. That always does the trick.