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Mocktails and Mardi Gras

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Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Jazmine Mercado
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SDSU chapter.

Mardi Gras, a day of festivities and fun, swept through San Diego State University with a bang.  This ritual, which really took off in the United States in the early 17th century, is a day of eating vast amounts of fatty, delicious foods while celebrating with family and friends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.  This allows for one night of pure joy and carelessness before beginning the season of Lent the following day, where people choose to give up certain unhealthy foods or activities in order to focus more on the things that really matter.
 
Here at San Diego State, it was a time to dress up in bright greens, purples, and lots of gold with multicolored beads & celebrate with friends.  Several parties were held that served their guests an array of exotic drinks and tasty munchies, games, and plenty of dancing.   One of these fantastic get-togethers included the Mardi Gras Extraordinaire put on by the Maya and Olmeca Hall Council, two freshman residence halls on-campus, the Sunday before Mardi Gras.  This was a chance for the different dorms to come together and mingle while enjoying the many goodies the festival had to offer.  These included “mocktails”, purple and green colored cake, a tattoo station, decorating masks, and a dance floor with a live disc jockey where students could get their groove on. 

 

It was a definite success and provided a great way for students who live together but don’t often interact each other to bond. Mardi Gras, in general, is a fantastic day received and celebrated all over the world varying from country to country, but all essentially rejoicing with wide varieties of food and festivities. 

 

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Jazmine is a freshman at San Diego State University in beautiful SO Cal. With plans to major in Communication and double minor in public relations as well as TFM (Television, Film, and New Media), she deeply enjoys reading, writing, and getting to know people around campus. As the founder and Campus Correspondent for Her Campus SDSU, her hopes are high and she is confident the branch will be a wonderful success. While in her first year of college, she is learning how to be more involved around campus while maintaining her studies. After spending a few childhood years living in Europe and traveling internationally, Jazmine has a passion for learning about different cultures from all over the world, especially the different foods! Future plans? She intends to have a career in media, preferably at a fashion magazine, such as Seventeen, or work with a popular television network such as OWN. In her free time she enjoys being with friends, reading, photography, Sunday church, learning how to play the ukulele, organizing things, and spending hours in the beauty department at almost any store.