We presented her with it a few days after I made the post.We were at $3000 the night before we were going to give her her money. That felt pretty good-- it was literally ten times what I thought we would raise. Then Tuesday came. I had a few random folks text me (recognized most of the numbers at least) talking about donations, and I told some to go to student affairs to drop them off, some to go to my room. When I finished up a nasty midterm, I came to student affairs to get whatever had been dropped off so that we could hit up the bank. One of the fraternities donated a whopping $592 that day. Needless to say, I forgot about the crappy midterm and may or may not have shed a few manly tears. There were a few more donations as well, to the point where I walked out of the building with around $800 or so. Then I got to my room. People had dropped off $600 on my desk over the course of the day. Six. Hundred. Dollars. When we went to the bank and totaled everything up, we had a check for $4441.06. That was entirely too close to a fun number, so we gave her an extra $3.38 for the sake of hilarity. Oh, and Aramark, the company in charge of the food services on campus, decided to match us a quarter for every dollar raised. So all-in-all, we gave Bonnie $5,555.55, or 18.5 times what I thought I'd accrue from all of campus. Here's a picture of Bonnie and I from when we presented her with the money. It was more than a tad emotional. There's also a
of the reveal. Gotta say, it felt pretty good.