By Rachel Scruggs

SMU Homecoming is finally here!

This year’s homecoming week kicked off with Rock the Vote, which took place Monday in Moody Coliseum. If you attended the event then you’d have an idea of just how pumped some SMU students gets for homecoming.

The winners out of the 22 homecoming King and Queen candidates will be crowned during Saturday’s football game against the University of South Florida, which will be an interesting sight to see if the weather permits.

Here at SMU the biggest homecoming traditions are decorating Peruna and the float parade. It’s really neat to see how each organization decorates Peruna to fit this year’s theme of Dynamic Duos.

People get really creative and the floats that are built for the parade are based on the design each organization created on their Peruna.

I would encourage each student to check out the homecoming parade Saturday at 4:30 p.m. You might just see Beyoncé and Jay Z on a float. Another great aspect of homecoming isn’t just for the students, but for the alumni to come back and enjoy the homecoming festivities.

For some students homecoming isn’t anything special, but just another football game ton the schedule.

This could be due to lack of involvement on campus and lack of enthusiasm when it comes to school spirit.

However, the Debby-downers of the campus won’t keep students from enjoying the Boulevard.

The idea of “We don’t tailgate, we boulevard” will be in full effect Saturday before the football game, but with the dismal weather we have had recently, we can only hope that the Boulevard will pull in its usual large crowd, so bundle up and be sure to come out.

I know a few of you are wondering “why should I go out in the cold just for this stupid event? This isn’t high school.”

It isn’t. It’s college; that means you should have even more school spirit for your university by putting yourself out there and making long lasting memories with your friends.

Homecoming is honestly what you make of it, so for those who are unaware of what homecoming is try it before you knock it because your college years are supposed to be some of the best years of your life.