The Gatepost Editorial: It’s the best weekend of the year!

By The Gatepost Editorial Board

The Framingham State community will come together to celebrate Homecoming and Family Weekend, a tradition shared by many universities across the country, on Oct. 17 and 18. 

After the stress of midterms and before the mad rush toward the end of the semester, students are given the opportunity to connect with their families, friends, and alumni for a weekend of activities.

Homecoming Weekend is an opportunity for all of us to share our love for FSU. 

This occasion provides current students with the chance to see the value in coming together as a community to celebrate the unity between past and present Rams. 

Homecoming brings alumni back to campus for the chance to reconnect with the culture, atmosphere, and memories that make Framingham State special to them. 

These moments of connection and friendship are exactly what make this campus so special. 

For alumni returning to FSU, we are so happy to have you on campus! We recognize what a cherished weekend this is to have an opportunity to return to the place where you found your passions and professional direction and made lifelong friendships.

Your commitment to Framingham State is admirable and appreciated.

Although our campus may look different, our values have not changed. We are still a community of hard-working, ambitious, and kind people who care deeply about our campus community and the ways in which it and the world at large can be improved. 

Homecoming Weekend traditions such as the annual football game at Bowditch Field, Fall Fest, and the Moonlight Breakfast are events that foster unity among students, alumni, and their families. 

Homecoming is not just for alumni - it is for new and returning students too!

Take a stroll down State Street for Fall Fest with your family or a group of friends and get reacquainted with all that Framingham State’s student organizations have to offer. Approach a new group or get information from a club you may not have been interested in at the start of the semester.

Along with the football team, athletes on the men’s soccer team and field hockey team are also competing at home on Saturday Oct. 18. Show your school spirit and cheer them on!

Homecoming Weekend is the perfect chance for students to get out of their residence halls and celebrate the first half of the semester. 

There are so many events and traditions that are planned for you and they will be here long after you graduate. Bring your friends and families and use this weekend as an opportunity to connect with our campus.

Whether you’re on the sidelines at Bowditch, representing your student organization at Fall Fest, or enjoying french toast sticks at the Moonlight Breakfast, we are all united because we chose Framingham State and we belong to this community.

Opportunities like Homecoming only come around a few times a year - take advantage of the chance to spend time with your friends and family. 

Although we can only live, study, and work on this campus for a brief period, it will always be home.

Once a Ram, always a Ram.