As an indebt student, survivng through grad school on espresso -- all I'll say in my (our) defense is -- what was Europe like pre-coffee? Enlightenment and coffee introduced similiar times. Coincidence? I think not.

Jor,
You'd better be producing some new kind of Age of Enlightenment, then. And I won't buy the "every day is an Age of Enlightenment all its own" argument, either. =)

What they didn't study is whether the act of sitting over at Starbucks with a latte made the students feel so good that they got more out of their study time than they would have elsewhere with a glass of water (or nothing)

Maybe it was a slow day over at the Post, after the Downing Street memo

Mocking the Downing Street Memo

Of course, Dan.

this is comming from a guy who himself has more to say about Katie Holmes than the Downing Street Memo.

The CDC has a report coming out warning that a latte habit adds to the nation's obesity epidemic. It recommends that latte-drinking indebted students switch to black coffee (Sumatran or French Roast in the morning, Kenya AA after big meals) for better health, reduction of future indebtedness and because, says the report, "...such is the way of manly men."

Well that's what I heard.

Are the editors of the WaPo suicidal? Don't they know better than to try to mess with our caffinne.

I brewed my own coffee when I was in college.

But since I was spending my old man's money,
and I got out of school without any loans, I
gladly would have dropped some of his cash on
Starbuck's.

If only had it been around back then.

I know that my own children do (did) the
Starbuck's thing, since it isn't their
money either. :-}

But... Starbuck has horrible coffee in horrible mugs (or worse paper cups!) in a crap athmosphere.

No, if you are going to bankrupt yourself drinking coffee don't go to starbucks (is this really the best coffee available in Seattle?) give the bank's money to someone who cares about what they are serving up!

I attended the referenced law school -- yep, Starbucks is across the street. Laptops at SU Law are mandatory and you can even log onto the SU Law webserver while in Starbucks. To spend $3 per day at Starbucks, you would only get a 16 ounce Vente drip. So, how does she arrive at $4,000 over 3 years? That would roughly work out to 1,333 Vente drip orders -- meaning SU Law students while attending classes 5 days per week purchase (estimating 216 days over the academic year) about 6.2 vente drip a day for a estimated total of $18 per day. Obviously Erika didn't have a math, accounting or finance undergraduate major if she believes that the total student cost at Starbucks for an SU student is $3 per day. If the total number of days is increased to 365 days in the calendar year, the daily consumption of Vente drip coffee is 3.76 daily -- the cost is $11.75. How did Erika Lim come up $3 per day? Then again, law professors would sneering refer to a case where an "accounting" was necessary -- performing simple calculations is obviously beneath any "real" attorney.