As finals season ramps up, student stress increases exponentially. Activities held across campus aim to mitigate the impact of these high anxiety times, and Coe library is at the center of many of them. A number of these de-stress events orbit around food and drink.
Each day of the week has featured a “beverage break” at noon, where the entrance to Coe has been filled with students as UW Libraries and LeaRN sponsor a variety of free drinks available as part of the finals week events on campus. The beverage break also offered tropical drink umbrellas and “finals fortunes.”
“I’m here for the free drinks,” said one student in line for Wednesday’s beverage break, as agreement rippled through the group.
“I think [the beverage breaks] are very beneficial because it gets us involved with other students, getting to see familiar faces and new faces,” said Juliana Seidel, one of the LeaRN program peer mentors, who was helping hand out drinks at Wednesday’s beverage break. “And getting to wish everyone good luck, I think it’s just uplifting, more than anything.”
Monday morning hosted card making and hot cocoa, as a fun craft partnered with a warm drink. The smoothie bike was also posted at Coe on Monday afternoon. The smoothie bike is a bike attached to a blender, whose blades are powered by pedaling the bike, allowing smoothies to be made completely electricity free.
Tuesday had a variety of breakfast foods available at the “grab and go breakfast” event, and Wednesday’s food based event was “ramen and recipes,” sponsored by 7220 entertainment, where noodles and recipe cards for sprucing up that ramen were shared with students. The recipes were also made available online through UW library’s virtual destress page, at https://uwyo.libguides.com/virtualdestress/recipes.
The smoothie bike will be back in Coe on Thursday afternoon, and while Friday didn’t offer any other food based activities, the beverage break will still be available. There will be another beverage break on Monday, Dec. 11.
