College students go nuts about the costumes, the candy, the whole bit. Along those lines, this holiday is one of the few that doesn't require thinking about other people. Halloween is the essential children's bash.
Kids get to morph into something extraordinary, to fulfill their desires to be seen as adults.
And they can stuff themselves with free sugar in the process. The primary act of Halloween for college students is purchasing a costume and dressing up, changing oneself, for an evening, into something scary, grand or goofy. But back to the issue at hand. Halloween has become a self-indulgent excuse for a good time, and a giant waste of money. We've distorted a Celtic celebration of nature into a bizarre fascination with the macabre and the commercial.