If you find me on campus, you either find me with a Starbucks coffee in hand or physically at a Starbucks, so it’s easy to say that Starbucks would be a place on campus that’s really significant to me. When the location in the Hurt Building opened up, I was thrilled! As a Graduate student, I don’t explore campus much; all of my classes have been in either 25 Park Place or Langdale Hall. This Starbucks is in the perfect location. It may seem silly that my most significant location is at a coffee shop (something not particularly GSU in nature) but I’ve gotten a lot accomplished at this Starbucks, especially during this most recent Maymester.

I came here every morning to work on grammar exercises and study for my exams. It got to the point where the employees knew me by name and knew my order before I could even say it. Sad? Perhaps – but it made my morning just a little bit easier. It was never too busy, but never too empty: the perfect atmosphere for studying. I met some of the sweetest people and even got to explain to a couple of them what sentence diagramming was once they saw my textbook.

Especially when other students are around, its easy to see we’re all here for the same things: exhaustion, caffeine, food, and motivation to get through the semester. When we’re all at Starbucks, we’re all in it together.

P.S.: My second most significant location was the Zen room on floor 23 of 25 Park Place. If you haven’t been there, you should go – it’s the perfect place to relax, sleep, or even get some work done, depending on your mood.