JUMP TO RECIPE Learn how to make the best zucchini oatmeal cookies with this easy recipe! Supremely chewy with lots of soft oats and cozy spices, these cookies taste similar to zucchini bread with their sweet comforting flavor and extra moist and tender texture.They’re made with common ingredients and come together quickly, so they’re simple to whip up any day of the week — or whenever you start craving cookies!     During my first year of graduate school, the chemistry department required all first year students to attend two weekly seminars.The professors took turns presenting their research groups’ focuses and current projects on Tuesday evenings, and experts from outside of the university gave talks on their industry jobs and businesses… On Friday afternoons.

While most people on campus zipped up their backpacks and headed home to relax and kick off the weekend, we piled into a small lecture hall with the lights shut off to stare at slides.Diagrams, molecules, and equations flashed across the projector screen pulled down over the black chalkboard as many of us fought to pay close attention — or even stay awake.    As a seasoned vet who hosted the seminar series every year, the professor in charge had a few tricks up his sleeve to make those two-hour lectures a little more bearable.

Each week, about five minutes before the presentation officially began, he carried two large paper bags to the front of the room, both filled to the brim with… Cooki

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