Students serve up a dream trip to Disney World for campus barista

Students, they’re the absolute worst aren’t they?

All they do is sit around, drink coffee and help fuel the gentrification of urban areas thanks to the combination of an abundance of free time and in some cases the abundance of maintenance loans, or payments from Mum and Dad.

Worse still, they hog all the best tables and abuse the (often) free WiFi.

Students, we see you with your late night revelry when the majority of us have to work first thing in the morning. Students, we shake our fists at you out of sheer loathing and jealousy.

But then a story like this comes along and suddenly all students get a free pass because deep down, the majority of them are what we’d call good eggs. And Taylor Zisholtz and Lucy Smith-Williams are the best of eggs; they’re Ostrich-sized good eggs.

Zisholtz and Smith-Williams have helped send Kathryn Thompson, a barista at their campus coffee shop, and her family to Disneyland.

The two students were in the Acorn coffee shop one evening. Located on the campus of Elon University, North Carolina, it’s a popular haunt for many a student doing university work, meeting up and generally watching the world go by.

The pair got talking to Kathryn, who has been working at Acorn for a decade and let slip that it was her dream to take her children and grandchildren, her autistic grandson especially, to Disney World for one big family holiday. It’s the kind of thing we’d all like to do; be a big kid and hang around with Mickey et al.

Immediately after the conversation the two students started planning.

“I moved my stuff to Lucy’s table, and we were just brainstorming ideas because I looked at her and was like; ‘We’re doing this, we can do this,’” said Zisholtz to The Pendulum, Elon’s student newspaper.

A GoFundMe page was set up and with the help of donations from the student body, alumni, the local community and even one GoFundMe employee, the $6,500 goal was smashed in three short weeks.

“Everybody knows Acorn,” Zisholtz continued, explaining why she thinks it took so little time to reach its fundraising goal.

“Everyone’s been there a million times. It’s Elon, it’s their school, it’s their stomping ground, it’s something they can link to and it’s doing good for someone.”

Yeah, we’re in tears here.