Blaring music, colorful posters and hundreds of students filled up Hooker Fields Sunday for a memorable FallFest.
Hosted by the Carolina Union, students learned about campus organizations, took in performances from campus groups and collected giveaway items.
“It’s just really awesome to see everything this university has to offer and just how many different clubs there are,” first-year Adam Tatum said. “You can really find anything.”
FallFest followed New Student Convocation for first-year and transfer students. Hundreds of campus clubs, sports, performance teams and academic departments looked to recruit new members.
“It was a little overwhelming at first so we decided to do the food first and then come back,” first-year Kalei Small said. “I think that was the best idea possible because now we’re actually stopping at every single booth, so that’s fun.”
Though many new students attended FallFest, upperclassmen also returned.
"I didn’t get to see all of it last year, so I was trying to go for that this year and I definitely saw a lot," sophomore Danya Zarate-Centeno said. "I signed up for a couple clubs that I really like, and you get a ton of cool free stuff.”
Zarate-Centeno said attending FallFest and staying involved in the clubs she’d signed up for helped her during her first year.
“It helped me a lot last year as a first-year because I attended the club, the general body meeting and I met a ton of different people,” she said. “And I became friends with some of them, and I’m still friends with some of them right now, too.”
