Looking for Cardiff Halloween plans? Here’s the activity for you, based on your degree

Halloween is creeping up on us, and it’s officially time to fill our calendars with all things spooky.

Whether you’re planning on braving trick-or-treating in Cathays, binging horror films, or just eating your weight in discount sweet treats, spooky season is the perfect excuse to embark on some chaos.

Fortunately, Halloween falls on a Friday this year – meaning the weekend is yours for mischief! Thought, let’s be honest, those 9am lectures on Monday are scarier than any horror film. But do not fear, here’s a list of Halloween activities you can do based on your degree with your classmates – maybe even bring your lecturer along too.

1. Medicine – YOLOWEEN

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Nobody deserves to let off steam more than the med students, so get your nurse and doctor Halloween outfits quick before the Joke Shop sells out!

Plus, if anyone gets hypothermia waiting in the three hour queue outside YOLO, med students have got you covered. But, don’t forget it’s Halloween – if everyone has blood spattered on their faces and clothes, it’s not real, and they do NOT require medical attention.

2. Philosophy – host a séance

Philosophers, grab that one student in your seminar who always plays “devil’s advocate” and perform a séance on them. We reckon it’ll count as coursework x

This might even be the perfect hangover cure. Light some candles, run around in circles and chant “Jägerbombbbb” and you’ll almost be able to feel the alcohol (aka the devil) leaving your body.

3. Agriculture – pumpkin picking

Who better to pick out the best pumpkins in the patch than an Agriculturalist? If this is you, head down to your local farm (or Lidl, they’re 89p there) and get picking.

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But if you’re not studying agriculture, don’t go with an agriculturalist because you will get stuck discussing crop yielding for hours in a random field (yawn).

4. English – trick or treat

To be tricked or to be treated? That is the question.

If you’re brave enough to head out in Cathays on the 31st, this could be the activity for you.

English students will be turning up at your doors this Halloween to poetically ask for chocolate and sweets – how could you possibly say no? If you don’t have any sweets for sharing, you could treat them with a poem or the smell of an old book and send them on their way to the next door down.

5. Biomedicine – pumpkin carving

Carving a pumpkin is just like performing a dissection, right?

Biomedicine students can practically consider this activity as revision. Just don’t scoop the insides of the pumpkin out too enthusiastically; otherwise, you might get kicked off your course for sociopathic behaviour.

So, what will you carve? Easy options are Halloween icons like a cat or a ghost, or the classic pumpkin face. Alternatively, you could carve the scariest thing of all – the Sir Martin Evans building on a cold winter’s morning.

6. Business – practice the Michael Jackson Thriller dance

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Let’s be honest, business students will be doing virtually anything but their degree. So, put on your suits and dresses and paint your faces like a zombie – it’s time for Thrillerrrr!

Just don’t attempt Jackson’s anti-gravity lean after a few shots in YOLO, we promise it won’t end well for you. But feel free to moonwalk all the way to your lectures on Friday 31^st.

7. JOMEC – Halloween movie marathon

Any JOMEC student can tell you that a movie marathon is actually only four to five films.

So, crack open the snacks, because here are five Halloween films JOMEC students will be binging on the big night: Freaky Friday, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Adams Family, Beetlejuice and Hocus Pocus.

Alternatively, they might be up all night conducting Halloween-themed interviews at a club night. They’ll be scary to listen back to the next morning, trust me.

8. Criminology – ghost hunting

Putting their investigative skills to good use, Criminology students will be out hunting for ghosts this Halloween – applying everything they’ve learnt from their modules to solve the ultimate cold case: Who’s haunting Cathays?

Realistically, though, the only ghosts they’ll find are the ones lingering in the ruins of Gassy’s. RIP. The Foundry just doesn’t have the same spirit.

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