Salty or Sweet? Find Out Our Scholarship Recipients’ Go-To Study Snacks!
We asked our 2025-2026 scholarship recipients what their favorite study snacks were to help our collegians get through finals season!
Sweet and/or salty seemed to be the top contenders for a cram session pick-me-up. We have to wonder if the Theta girls are onto something with both Alessia Ruggiero and Julia McHugh naming Trader Joe’s chili lime tortilla chips as their go-to brain food!
| Name | Chapter & University | Favorite Study Snack |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Fournier | Kappa Zeta-McGill | Anything salty! Chips are usually my go-to. |
| Hana Marie Freburg | Beta Mu-Alabama | Ben and Jerry's Fudge Brownie Ice Cream! |
| Tomi Pirtle | Gamma Iota-Texas Tech | Cheese strings!!! |
| Layla Pourhosseini | Sigma-Washington | Chips or a coffee. |
| Taytum Bigelow | Gamma Beta-UC Santa Barbara | Chocolate-covered pretzels! I love anything sweet-and-salty. |
| Bethuel Sam | Theta Tau-Rensselaer | Definitely some achomo or plantain chips. |
| Chloe Lepak | Gamma Omicron-Drake | I love anything salty! Pringles and goldfish are two of my favorite study break snacks. |
| Grace Cason | Iota Kappa-Dartmouth | I love peanut butter pretzels! Although, I’m also a really big fan of Trader Joe’s dark chocolate, especially when I’m starting to feel a little tired while studying. |
| Alessia Ruggiero | Theta-Michigan | I love the chili lime tortilla chips from Trader Joes! Or their dried apricots 🙂 |
| Alexis Rudolph | Gamma Sigma-Wisconsin Stout | Ice cream |
| Kyra Pylaras | Epsilon Kappa-West Chester | My favorite study break snack is pretzel goldfish. |
| Petra Hensley | Delta Beta-East Texas A&M | My go-to study break snacks are pretzels and Cheez-Its. |
| Kala Mitcham | Zeta Pi-Case Western Reserve | Nerds gummy clusters |
| Sofia Kennedy | Beta-Northwestern | Popcorners |
| Meg McFadden | Epsilon Beta-Butler | Sour jelly beans |
| Julia McHugh | Theta-Michigan | Trader Joe’s Chili and Lime Flavored Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips |
