College and coffee go hand to hand (a pair almost as amazing as college and ramen), so it's absolutely appalling that our campus coffee shop just can't seem to get its mixed drinks right. I must admit when you walk in at the right time and the right person is behind the counter, you can walk away with a cup full of caffeinated magic. But more often than not you're just left with a bunch of milk, a splash of expresso, non-existant flavorings and broken dreams.
Most workers have the tendency to skip on everything that matters. Like the syrups that separate a mixed drink from just regular coffee. The slightly outrageous prices do not make it any better.
There's also the handful of people who don't know how to make the drinks on the menu, even though the ingredients list is literally right in front of them. Being a creature of habit, I always order the same drink with chocolate, white chocolate and hazelnut, making it extremely obvious when someone makes it wrong. And my friend Brandon shared an awful story about how he ended up with chai with expresso in it. After he specifically requested no expresso and the worker sharply responded "We don't put expresso in our chai...". Of course, the irony was not lost after that mistake.
One of these days they will realize the error of their ways and stop messing with the wonderful caffeine dependency that upper-level college courses inspires. But since I'm leaving in May, I probably won't see that day come so I won't get my hopes up.
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