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The Life a Coffee-Addicted Collegiate

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Framingham chapter.

Ah coffee, where would we be without you? How many papers, late nights, early mornings, and long shifts you have helped me through are uncountable.  You’re a true lifesaver my friend, one who is there for me everyday and especially when it matters most (s/o to pulling me through finals week).  I could write you a sonnet about the way your iced caramel swirl tastes like happiness or how your freshly-brewed smell encloses around me like a warm hug.  Some call it love, others may say it’s an addiction, either way college wouldn’t (nay, couldn’t) be college without coffee.  It may have started out as a casual cup here or there, but if you’re like me, college has intensified your relationship with the good ol cup of joe.

1. You initially thought drinking coffee was cool and just wanted to be able to sound mature and say “hey let’s grab coffee sometime”.

2.  But it wasn’t long until it became a part of your daily routine, right along with showering and brushing your teeth.

3. You went through the twitch-phase as your body first adjusted to its magical qualities.
4. Your first experience drinking black coffee was not as cool and poetic as it sounded.
5. So you then began to drown it in as much sugar as it took to make it taste like anything besides actual coffee
6.  Your first encounter with Dunkin caramel swirl (or Starbucks for you fancy people out there) left you in wonder in how good coffee could actually taste without you pouring ten sugars in it.
7. The struggle of keeping clean mugs around your dorm room has become much too real.
(don’t lie, we’ve all done it)
8.  You’ve grown to really appreciate it on certain days.
9.  It has saved you on numerous occasions from making some probably horrendous decisions.

(Because no one should be trusted to be rational without a cup of coffee in their system)

10.  Potential suitors need to understand that bringing you a coffee is single handedly the fastest way to your heart.

11.  You pretty much can not function without it.
12. You can’t even imagine this level of love for a person.
13.  The way the cream fills in the darkness of a hot cup of coffee is one of the most beautiful things you’ve witnessed.
14.  It on occasion has made you emotional.
15.  You are a legitimate crazy person without it.
16.  No one, not even your friends, comes between you and that cup of sweet miracles.
Maybe you are a more fortunate soul who is not at the same level of coffee-lover as some of us.

But let’s face it, whether you’re a newbie or a long time drinker, we all need our go-to order to get us through these last few weeks of the semester. Medium iced caramel swirl with skim please!

 

Freshman; Undecided (about a lot of things). Currently in a relationship with coffee and Nate Archibald.