Students gathered in the Legacy Courtyard to witness a rare event of cosmic scale, as the moon eclipsed 95.8% of the sun, rendering a stunning effect and partial darkness across huge swaths of Texas and the nation.

Aleimi Flores, dental hygiene sophomore, said the eclipse left a lot to be desired.

“I’m kind of a little disappointed since we didn’t have the totality, like the total solar eclipse. So it just looked like an orange moon, not that pretty ring,” Flores said.

“I thought it was going to be cool. It really wasn’t,” David Linares, dental hygiene sophomore added.

The Residence Housing Association hosted an event for students during the eclipse, offering free eclipse-viewing glasses and an eclipse doortag craft.

Art education junior and RHA Vice President Hailey Padhila said she was pleased with the turnout for the event.

“The solar eclipse only happens so often. We wanted to make sure students who live in the dorm had a chance to see it all in the flesh,” Padhila said, adding, “Really, really good turnout. It was a lot more than we anticipated.”

Despite positive reception to the event, the cosmic event decades in the making left some students unimpressed.

“It was very disappointing,” Linares said.