Moonlight Breakfast is a long-running tradition at Texas State. This event, sponsored by Residence Life, Chartwells, the LBJ Student Center and the Student Health Center, is held each semester the night before the first day of finals. Moonlight Breakfast offers students an opportunity to take a break from studying for finals by eating a late-night breakfast.

Students are treated to a hot breakfast between 10 p.m. and midnight. Part of this tradition is faculty and staff members cooking and serving the meal. It is not uncommon to see a professor cooking scrambled eggs or staff members passing out orange juice.

Len Fielder, campus food service director in the '70s, started serving a Moonlight Breakfast once a year before final exams in the spring. That program disappeared for a few years when his company lost the contract in 1978-79. PFM reinstituted Moonlight Breakfast in the early 1980s, and Chartwells has expanded it over the past several years.