Utep celebrated it's 20th annual Midnight Breakfast late Tuesday night, giving nearly one thousand students free food and a break from late night cramming.

Student Body President Pablo Padilla spent several hours rolling burritos in preparation for the traditional study break.

"I was rolling burritos the whole night, I'm a little tired of making them," laughed Padilla, a UTEP senior who's volunteered at the late-night breakfast since his freshman year. "We had about 400 plates of minudo, 400 to 500 pancakes, a bunch of sausage links, and about 800 burritos. That's a lot of food."

The midnight breakfast usually averages 900 students who line up an hour or two before the doors open. The cold temperatures kept the line from forming this year, but hundreds of students were lured in by the free food.

"I was studying in the library across the street," said Irving Miramontes, a freshman at UTEP. "This is an awesome event and makes everything seem a little less stressful, pretty random that it's at midnight though."

Volunteering professors stood behind serving trays, dishing out blue and orange pancakes. One of the faculty members supervising the serving lines, Craig Thompson, has been helping out with the midnight breakfast for the past twenty years.

"The first couple of years the volunteers had to cook the food too," said Thompson, the associate director of UTEP's Career Center. "It's fun to come out here and serve the students, and I think they really appreciate what we're doing for them."

Besides the food, the university also gave away t-shirts, water bottles, and the item every student seems to be lacking around the time of finals -- pencils.

A number of finals at UTEP were rescheduled after delaying classes until 10a.m. on Tuesday morning following the cold snap. Those tests have since been rescheduled for similar times on Monday morning.