Weekend Assignment #2

American Heritage is one of the most dreaded classes at BYU, but I absolutely loved it.

I loved it so much in fact that I decided to become an American Heritage TA.

Being a TA involves dealing with herds of freshman on a weekly basis.

Freshman are an interesting species.

I have a few students who could not care less about anything and then I have a few who are the most hyper students you can imagine. 

They are so worried about their grade that they email me multiple times a week, come to each and every one of my office hours, study endlessly for the weekly quizzes, and are constantly checking their grade on blackboard.

As you can imagine, with the notoriously difficult American Heritage final these students are stressed out of their minds.

When we received the lovely assignment this weekend to find someone more stressed than we are (quite a feat considering in the next two weeks I have to grade a massive stack of papers, do a handful of projects, take five finals, do my christmas shopping, oh and not to mention finish planning the wedding and get married) and do something nice for them,

I immediately thought of my distraught American Heritage students.

When considering what I could do for my poor kids, I thought of what I like when I am stressed.........

chocolate.

So for my last lab I taught this week I brought a huge batch of my famously delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies.

Because a little sugar makes every problem less stressful, right??

My students thought so.

They absolutely loved the cookies and forgot about their stress for a moment.

Plus, this selfless act of service will hopefully boost my teacher evaluations too :)