stressed?

For the past couple of years K has been trying to get its students to lighten up. It all started many years ago when the day of gracious living was established. It is a sunny, hot day in Spring when you wake up to the chapel bells signaling that all classes have been cancelled for the day and the college sponsors busses to the beach as well as other fun activities. A year ago, facilities management installed a swing on campus. Soon thereafter they hired a chaplain who takes us on canoe trips, leaves cookies and tea out for anyone who wanders by, and keeps a steady supply of bubbles and hula hoops during the day and s'mores and a fire pit at night. Lately, however, things have become even more silly. One staff member drives a 'random act of kindness cart' around campus handing out free ice cream sandwidches to students on hot days, and at a recent senior event, we were all given kazoos to play our alma matter in front of the campus. As the culmination of silliness, we had a cirque de K circus with the band recently, as well.




It's hard to be stressed when you're eating ice cream and playing a kazoo, until someone reminds you that by Wednesday morning you will officially no longer be an undergraduate student.