Minerpalooza
One of the most
sought after events of UTEP’s annual curriculum is the famous Minerpalooza. On
this night thousands of UTEP’s students get together for a night of socializing
with one another through several different activities; this event takes 6
hours, starting from 6:00pm to midnight giving students enough time to
experience everything that the campus event has to offer. I experienced this
campus event on August 31st and experienced different activities the
event had available. Things such as socializing with fellow students, the good
food, and the different activities the event has to do made the experience very
unique and one of a kind.
The second My friends and I arrived at Minerplaooza the
first thing that had to be done of course was to eat; just as every man knows
that in order to partake in any kind of activity, one must first have a full stomach. As the group
I was a part of purchased the tickets needed in order to be able to obtain food
and take part of the activities offered,
a beautiful girl came up to me and gave me 19 tickets as she was leaving
the event; this lead to having all the fun the event had to offer absolutely
free. After we had the tickets lots of walking led us to the biggest discovery
of the night. The turkey leg stand! This of course was the number one choice of
nutrition for the night’s journey. The exquisite flavor of the beautiful golden
brown muscle of that majestic bird still lingers in my pallet to this day, and
the smooth beautiful black nectar that can even reenergize the Gods made by
Capitan Starbucks, gave me the energy and flavor to get through the night very
happy and successfully.
As the journey continued on, friends from high school and
middle school that I hadn’t seen for many years started to pop up. This was one
of the highlights of the night, seeing such good friends, remember memorable
memories, and joking around about random things is simply priceless! Of course
this made the night go much faster but just as seeing great friends there were
people I wasn’t particularly very happy to see; with the event being so big
thousands of students show up, and of course the trashy ex-girlfriend is no
exception! However seeing so many familiar faces and socializing with friends
and even old flings was lots of fun and made for a great memorable night.
The night is not all about food and people though, it
also has tons of different activities to be a part of to help the students have
lots of fun and make great memories. Things like pull-up contest, inflatable
balloon races, and even live music made the event that much better. I took part
of the pull-up contest and came in a pull-up short of winning a hat, then my
group and I noticed that one of the bands playing the live music had an old
high school guitar teacher of mine, which I might add I disliked very much, was
gamming at the event; what made that so memorable was that his band was
absolutely TERRIBLE which made the memory so much sweeter after all the times
that teacher yelled at me and bragged about how good he was. This idea of live
music made the events fun and entertaining and gave such a good atmosphere to
the party.
Minerpalooza was a great campus event experience, thanks
to the music, activities, good food, and the socializing. From personal
experience I would recommend anybody that currently goes to UTEP to go next
year due the great fun I had. This event was an opportunity to meet new people
and get a general idea of the famous college experience everyone talks about,
this was a great night and a traditional event of UTEP that not only will stay
in my memory forever but one that I will continue to go to over any other
campus event; so if one is looking for a night to make great college memories
and lots of fun Minerpalooza is the campus event to go.
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