Too Many Cookies

For Kalamazoo College students, this is the infamous tenth week, the last full week of classes before exams. For many students, tenth week means a bunch of papers and presentations to prepare. As a math and economics major, this is actually a less stressful week for me because I have no big projects due and my upcoming finals are basically just a few more midterms. 

Besides stressed students, another hallmark of tenth week is ample quantities of delivery food. Every student organization is given $300 dollars per year to spend on "group bonding" (if you are wondering why college tuition keeps going up, this may be part of the answer). Usually, this money goes unspent until the final week when every student organization turns their last meeting into a lavish feast. 

Insomnia Cookies, which just came to Kalamazoo this year, has been having a good week. I ordered 100 cookies from them for Board Game Club, 24 cookies for Economics and Business Club, and when I came to my last Swing Dance Club meeting there was a box of cookies waiting. 

A sampling of the Insomnia Cookies at Board Game Club

The cookies really are quite good. They're delivered hot and gooey, and made with plenty of butter. In addition to the Insomnia Cookies, I've had crab rangoons, shwarma, and pizza this week. When you have $300 to spend, you might as well get a lot of food. I think I might have to do a bit of running to work off all of this free food though.