September 21, 2017
A GWU Freshman Brought Her Baking Business to College. Small Problem with That.
Lena Geller makes cakes. Cakes with flowers. Truly clever cakes, with insults spelled out in bright colors. Lovely cakes with layers and berries. So when the George Washington University freshman moved from Durham, N.C., to the school’s Foggy Bottom campus in August, she brought her light blue mixer and loads of baking supplies. And this month, she was featured in the school’s student newspaper, the Hatchet, which chronicled the arrival of the baking business she’d hoped to run out of her residence hall’s kitchen. Then she got an email from her resident adviser.