The Spire

Kate Santini ‘27

News Editor

    On March 17, the campus bore witness to a miracle that many attributed to none other than St. Patrick himself. The news that all students awoke that morning to find their dining dollars restocked on GrubHub made national headlines. This was surely “nothing short of a miracle — and a St. Patrick’s Day one at that,” wrote the New York Times. An equally reputable source, Fizz, hosted wall-to-wall coverage of the event. Many of its most trusted anonymous writers posted images celebrating what quickly became known as the Great Restock.

     As an undisciplined freshman with poor spending habits, I was left speechless upon finding my dining dollars restocked. My phone became inundated with text messages from friends sharing screenshots of their accounts. “Is this real?!?” wrote one. “We struck gold,” wrote another. “I’m balling out at Cool Beans this morning,” we all agreed.

     Campus visitors, including high school students on tours with their families, noted an unusual “spring in the average student’s step” and a contagious sense of “exhilaration” that instantly endeared them to Holy Cross. Quickly, seniors across the nation caught wind of this spirit. Indeed, Holy Cross received so many last-minute applications on March 17, the College’s digital servers crashed.

     Dining staff around campus were stunned. Lobby Shop employees in particular were caught off guard by swarms of students raiding the store’s shelves. Some speculated this may have been a mere “accident” or a “gift from administration.” After much debate, it seemed the only truly rational explanation was that it was the “luck of the Irish.”

     “Why else would this have occurred on St. Patrick’s Day?” asked one student.

     “It’s the pot of gold we needed in these trying times of academic stress,” added another, expressing his revived belief in leprechauns. “If this isn’t proof that leprrechauns exist, I don’t know what is.”

     Whatever the source, whether it be St. Patrick, leprechauns, or a mix of both, students were left delighted. While a campus-wide email has since declared the Great Restock a mistake, many students continue to believe that the incident was not a fluke but a divinely-inspired St Patrick’s Day miracle.

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