As a college student, life can get stressful and sleep can seem like a joke some nights. That’s when coffee becomes important. Caffeine is a beautiful thing. Although my introduction to coffee was long before college, when my Portuguese grandmother would watch my brothers and me during summer days while my parents were at work. She would serve seven-year-old me the greatest drink that could possibly grace my mouth: coffee.
Realistically, it was mostly sugar and milk with a splash of coffee, but coffee nonetheless. So, my love, obsession, addiction, or whatever you want to call it started young and has only allowed me to blossom into a sort of ‘coffee monster’ if you will, but it’s not that serious. Anyway, here are nine reasons that you may also be in love with, or even obsessed with, coffee.
1. You don’t care what it tastes like.
As long as it’s advertised as coffee and has caffeine in it, you’ll drink it. You don’t even care if it tastes like dirty mop water, you’ll drink it...especially if it’s free.
2. You plan your day around when and how you’re going to get coffee.
You throw together an outfit that probably doesn’t match, just so you can get out the door to grab a coffee before your first class because sitting through a 2-hour class early in the morning is impossible without one. Then, while drinking your first coffee, you’re thinking about your next coffee. You’re thinking about your late morning coffee and your post-lunch coffee. You kind of always have coffee on the brain.
3. You become a toddler with a headache without it.
You’re cranky and your head is throbbing until coffee comes to save the day.
4. You don’t understand people who don’t like coffee.
Person: “I don’t like coffee.”
You: “Well, I don’t like you.”
5. Your Keurig coffee machine is your best friend.
Plain and simple, any machine that will provide you with coffee in under a minute is a friend of yours.
6. After your third cup, you feel invincible and inevitably begin making false promises to yourself.
You’re so caffeinated and you feel great- a little jittery, but great! You tell yourself you’ll go to the gym tomorrow and start your remarkable weight loss journey, but we all know that’s a lie. You also tell yourself that you’ll get all of your papers written a day in advance, yet you know in the back of your caffeinated mind that you’ll be writing your papers right up until about 20 minutes before they’re due.
7. You don’t understand why people order fancy drinks at coffee shops when there’s just good ole coffee.
Coffee is so good! Why would you pass up an opportunity to drink it? Also, just a large coffee is much less expensive than a mocha swirl whipped cream macchiato espresso latte with skim milk and two pumps of caramel.
8. You have to pee every 15 minutes.
Caffeine is considered a diuretic, therefore coffee will make you pee frequently. You know exactly where every bathroom is everywhere you go and, if you don’t, you will soon.
9.You have embraced coffee breath
Yeah, it's kind of gross, but if someone can smell your coffee breath, then they're probably too close to you. Personal space, please!
If you can relate to any of these, well, you might love coffee. Coffee is good for your soul, it's science. So, never feel bad about your potentially excessive coffee consumption.
