Students who are looking for fun events to celebrate the winter feeling are in luck! SUBOG’s Winter Week has begun, consisting of five free winter-themed events for students at the University of Connecticut to check out.
On Feb. 19, Moonlight Breakfast will be hosted in the Student Union Ballroom at 7 p.m. and One Ton Sundae will be held on the Student Union Terrace on Feb. 20 at 11 a.m.
Students must bring their UConn IDs to participate in the events.
The Winter Week commenced on Feb. 13 with the Build Your Own Bouquet or Chocolate Box event and continued with the Prize Basket Bingo on Feb. 17. Students who bought a ticket will be going on a ski trip to Wachusett Mountain on Feb. 21, though tickets are now sold out.
Chi-Chi Onoh, an eighth-semester English major who serves as SUBOG’s Major Weekends Chair, talked about what students can get out of attending these events.
“On campus it feels like there’s genuinely nothing to do, and going to an event like this can be fun,” Onoh said. “You can meet people and talk to people… opposed to being stuck on campus doing nothing. It’salways nice to have something to do.”
The highlight of the Winter Week is One Ton Sundae, where students will be given a bucket to fill up with UConn Dairy Bar ice cream. After getting ice cream, students will get the opportunity to spin a wheel to try to win SUBOG merchandise, including mugs and pajamas.
“It’s very popular,” Onoh said. “In the middle of winter too, when it’s freezing cold and everyone’s like ‘Yeah, I’m going to eat a bucket of ice cream.’”
Onoh advised any students interested in coming to the events to come “as early as you can.”
“The later you come to an event, the harder it’s going to be to get to the front of the line,” Onoh said. “Especially with [One Ton Sundae], that line is abysmally long… and also, don’t cut the line.”
M&T Bank is sponsoring One Ton Sundae and will be providing students in line with beanies and gloves, Onoh said.
At the Moonlight Breakfast event, breakfast will be served from 7 to 9 p.m. and crafts will be available, including diamond painting and crochet kits, according to a SUBOG Instagram post. Food and crafts will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis.
“It’s really just eating breakfast at night,” Onoh said. “It’s pretty chill. We haven’t done it for, I think like two, three years, so then, once I heard about it, I was like, I think that’d be nice just to have people sit down, have breakfast.”
SUBOG will also be hosting their third annual World of Food event in the Student Union Ballroom on Feb. 22nd at 7 p.m., which will feature Nigerian, Mexican, Greek, Brazilian and Korean food according to a SUBOG Instagram post.
More information about the events will be posted on SUBOG’s Instagram throughout the week.