During school on Halloween, three juniors dressed as Sully and three as Mike Wazowski, from “Monsters Inc.,” gathered in the third-floor hallway for a photo of their group’s costumes. The costumes worn by Mary Bridget Molony and her friends weren’t for wandering the neighborhood, they were only for the eyes of U-High. 

While many students wore costumes to school that day, the majority did not participate in trick-or-treating due to their extracurricular activities, homework load and even feeling the need to mature. 

Junior Amy Ji planned to go trick-or-treating until finding out she had skating practice for most of the evening.

“I unfortunately had a skating practice right after school from 5 to 9:45, so the entire time I was just practicing, but I did plan on doing it until I found out there was practice,” said Amy, who dressed up for school as Wednesday Addams, from “The Addams Family.”

Amy said she wished she could have gone trick-or-treating and would have enjoyed the nostalgia of doing so. 

“Eating a lot of candy, spending more time with friends and just in general just soaking in all these childhood memories,” Amy said. “Kind of like remembering what the past was like as a child.” 

Mary Bridget, who dressed up as Sully, was planning to go trick-or-treating but was unable to because of a test the following day. She instead decided to study and drop by her friend’s house. 

While Mary Bridget planned to study and see her friends, sophomore Olin Nafziger, who dressed up as Beaker from “Muppets,” planned to watch Halloween movies from home. In previous years, Olin has gone trick-or-treating and said he loves dressing up for Halloween. 

“I just turned 16 and I felt that maybe 16 was probably the maximum age,” Olin said, regarding why he’s not trick-or-treating this year. “I like the experience of going trick-or-treating, but, personally, I don’t really like eating candy, so every year I kind of just stock up on loads of candy and never eat it and just thought, ‘Maybe I should stop doing that.’”