Girl Scout Cookie Day is near and Point Park students are preparing for its arrival.

The national holiday will begin on Friday, Feb. 27 and will end on Sunday, March 1. Throughout the country, Girl Scouts will be raising money by selling boxes of cookies to individuals that cannot resist the quality and quantity of these small treats. 

On Feb. 27, various Girl Scout cookies will be sold on campus from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Lawrence Hall, as well as Fifth Avenue Place.

This year, Girl Scouts will be presenting three new flavors of cookies to the public. According to their website, they will be selling gluten-free cookies, along with three new recipes for their loyal buyers.

These new cookie names will be tossed around by sellers around the states, which are Toffee-tastic, Trios, and Rah-Rah Raisin. Toffee-tastic cookies are butter cookies containing bits and pieces of toffee. Trios are made with peanut butter, chocolate and natural whole grains. The Rah-Rah-Raisin cookies are made with a combination of oatmeal, Greek yogurt and, as the name points out, raisins.

Sarah Williams, a junior majoring in acting, loves to eat Tag-a-longs, which are chocolate-covered cookies with layers of peanut butter inside of them. Williams is happy with the fact that Girl Scout cookies will be sold on campus during the special weekend. She recalled a time when her neighbor was a Girl Scout and how “she was quite the entrepreneur.” 

“We paid for 10 boxes, and she only gave us eight,” Williams said. “Whenever we said, ‘Noah, you only gave us eight boxes of cookies,’ she said, ‘I don’t know what to tell you. I only had eight boxes,’ and she walked away.” 

Carley Ingold, a freshman dance major, was once a Girl Scout selling cookies door-to-door in communities. 

“I was a Girl Scout back in the day. I just had to walk around my neighborhood and sell them to people,” Ingold said. “I think that I was just a cute little girl. I think that a lot people felt bad.”

Jess Walsh, a senior majoring in cinema, loves eating Samoas because she enjoys eating coconut. She also remembered her hey-days of being a persuasive Girl Scout and how selling cookies was a “competition” to her. 

“I always went out with my mom,” Walsh said. “The moms are the ones that are selling the cookies, and they bring the girls to make the [potential buyers] feel bad.”