Why Cookie Dough Is Actually A Metaphor For College Life
You could say my life really started to take a turn for the sweets when Nestle Tollhouse started selling their beautiful cookie dough in precut squares. Or maybe it was when, after I bought one pack of cookie dough, Giant gave me a coupon to buy two more. And then three more.
Oh, the raw cookie dough, now a staple of my late night homework sessions. It’s the perfect snack: already in a small portion, nice and chewy, and with chocolate chips. What more could you want?
Right on the package, I am warned against consuming the cookie dough raw. Because of the eggs and all that. But I bow to no man, so I ignore this caution all the time. I eat the cookie dough. I become the cookie dough. Cookie dough is me.
Think about it: cookie dough and college students have a lot in common.
Cookie dough is not essential to your day until you’ve hit a wall and can no longer think about differential equations. Likewise, you are not yet essential to the workplace, but you will be, soon, once you’ve completed your education and can wow all of the business executives in your field of choice with your incredibly vast knowledge.
Cookie dough is not fully formed, and neither are you. It’s got to sit in a hot oven for 10 minutes, and you have to sit in a boring lecture for an hour. Either way, you both need a little more tender love and care before society deems you acceptably complete.
Despite that, cookie dough is perfect just the way it is, and so are you. The dough isn’t cooked and you haven’t graduated yet, but you’re both amazing. You’ve got bits of chewy and chocolaty goodness. Who needs a degree when you’ve got cookie dough?