Roaming the streets on Halloween night trick-or-treating, kids are dressed as their dreams or aspirations, princesses, cheerleaders, astronauts, police officers. Christmas is celebrated by Christians for the birth of Jesus. Families gather around a lightened tree with presents underneath, and New Year’s marks the new year and the great times that aspire to come.

Celebrating holidays can be fun, but for a few students, they celebrate these days because it marks the day they were born.

“People normally ask me ‘Isn’t it bad you’re born on Christmas or whatever,’ ” junior Ashley Matos said. “Not to me, like everyone comes to my house for Christmas.”

For some people it’s not as easy to have their birthday on a holiday. With most kids trick-or-treating on Halloween, freshman Colleen Gallagher finds it hard to celebrate her birthday.

“It feels awful because I want to go out to eat, but everyone’s trick or treating, and it’s lonely and empty in the restaurants,” Gallagher said.

Even though Gallagher finds it challenging to celebrate, an unexpected surprise happened one Halloween.

“Where I use to live I was having a birthday party, and this security system we had, and some kid pressed the carbon monoxide button, and so the fire department came, and they were like “Oh, it’s a birthday party,” and I was like ‘Yeah,’ so I gave them some birthday cake,” Gallagher said.

While it might not be a holiday, Leap Day is another unexpected birth date. Every four years, Feb. 29 is added to the calendar to account for the 365.25 days it takes for the Earth to circle around the sun. Sophomore Pierce Rust is a Leap Day baby who technically only has his birthday every four years. On Leap Day, Rust turned 16, or 4 years old, depending how you look at it.

“When I’m older I get to say I’m younger,” Rust said.

On non-Leap years, Rust celebrates his birthday Feb. 28th because he doesn’t like March.

“I don’t really know why,” Rust said. “It’s different I guess.”

Having a birthday on Christmas is also something different. Matos celebrates Christmas as well as her birthday in the same day. In the morning she opens all her Christmas presents, and then later on in the day all her friends come to house and she has her party, then opens her birthday gifts.

“The best part is everyone comes to me for Christmas,” Matos said.

For some students like freshman Jessica Turner, whose birthday is on New Year’s, it doesn’t feel that her birthday is any different than having a birthday on a normal day.

“I have my party on New Year’s Eve so my friends and I can wrap up the year,” Turner said.