Forum Conversations: costume

Monday, October 12, 2009

Trick or Treat: Halloween '09

Hello fellow UHP students/faculty!

I was just sitting here wondering what I should be for Halloween. It is my absolute favorite holiday, if only for the fact that more horror flicks are on, and everyone gets to dress up in terrifyingly outrageous costumes. So to get to the point, does anyone have any great costume ideas or like to share what they will be dressing up as this year?

Finding a costume for a guy is difficult because the only real male costumes I have found are ridiculous. They are all along the lines of some hefty version of a normal costume, something extremely perverse, or just plain stupid. And as far as female costumes go, they are generally all the same (a skimpy version of a well-known character, etc.).

Why is it SO difficult to find a good costume?! I guess I could always make a costume, but that is where all of you come in. I need the ideas in order to choose the perfect one. So please, share your ideas on future or past costumes, and hopefully in your attempt to help me, you can gain some insight as well.

Thanks :)

Welcome

Welcome to the Virtual Honors Forum: a place where students, faculty, and staff of the University Honors Program come together for conversation. Just like in our real forum full of cozy couches, study tables and chairs, this is a place to share with others what you are studying, what has you mesmerized, mildly intrigued, or downright flabbergasted. "To share" is really the key phrase, for as many of us have discovered, real learning (and research) does not take place in a small room where we sit alone with a book. Learning is dialogue and research is collaboration.

On this blog you may find and contribute to conversations about amazing movies, brain plasticity, DDR, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, or the ethics of cloning. But more importantly, you have discovered an interdisciplinary community of thinkers and learners who are engaged in a broad range of topics. We ask that you always conduct your conversations with courtesy and honesty.

Finally, we encourage participants to challenge and wrinkle the boundaries between the "thinkers" and the "learners"; to surrender your preconceptions and self-perceptions at the door; to accept an alternating existence between those two roles while in this forum. One day you might contribute as a "thinker," but the next day you read something which transforms you back into a "learner."