Reporter
Trying to focus and find the energy to step into class can be hard, but for some students, coffee gets the heart pumping and can make a sluggish Monday morning feel like a Friday afternoon.
Students like Viridana Garcia, a senior criminal justice major at CSU Bakersfield, found it difficult to get back into school after winter break.
“It was hard to go back to school, because I miss sleeping in and not thinking about research papers and exams,” said Garcia.
While some people drink coffee to stay up, Garcia prefers tea.
“I prefer drinking tea over coffee because I feel like it’s healthier and it keeps me awake. That’s a plus,” said Garcia.
Not everyone enjoys the boost of energy that comes from coffee. The preference of tea over coffee is rare, especially on a college campus.
Cindy Engle works at CSUB for the Peet’s Coffee company, and has been working there for 21 years. She admits that we’re living in a “coffee generation.” She thinks that in recent years coffee has seen a resurgence, It’s a trend that has been embraced the most among college students.
However there are those students that can’t really feel the affects of coffee anymore, but do feel withdrawals.
Vanessa Aguas, a senior psychology major, said, “ I usually drink about five cups a week, but when I don’t drink coffee, the days feel like a drag.”
The lines for coffee can get crazy-long the first days back at school, but here at CSUB, Engle says the lines last a little longer.
“The first weeks of school are very busy. People will wait in really long lines just to get their coffee,” said Engle.
Engle also notes that the semester system has changed the frequency people get coffee.
The lines get extensively long at 8 or 9 a.m. According to Engle, people used to get coffee every two hours. Now it’s every hour.
“There’s days where I don’t even look up, we’re so busy,” said Engle.
Coffee is what keeps the students at CSUB going, and according to Engle, “if the machine is down, everyone is down.”
