Also, there’s a new gizmo to make your own pods if you have a coffee you absolutely love that doesn’t come in this format.

Happy college.

I had some friends that only worked at night in our lab, from around 9 pm to 6 am. We always met at midnight for coffee and to talk.

Okay, that’s a little extreme, but late night are a part of the deal and coffee sure does help. You might consider joining Gevalia, or some other coffee of the month club–not a bad investment! If nothing else, you’ll graduate as a coffee connoisseur–and there might even be work for that!

Good luck!

I would buy a jar of Taster’s choice, either regular or decaf (if you are one of those who find coffee disturbs your full night’s sleep). I would use 1/2 tsp to a cup of boing water and if my room did NOT have a hot plate I would use (as I did in lots of places) a $1 immersion heater. Those are those little spiral heaters that you put in the cup, plug in to your outlet and it boils the cup of water in about 20 seconds.

In other words I would keep it simple. So often I have seen in dorms such a clutter and mess of stuff when someone brought a dripolator or percolator and then bags of coffee and all sorts of stuff messing up the room.

Try to get one of those with a thermal carafe that doesn’t need a hot plate to keep the coffee warm–the hot plates tend to scorch the brew after a while, the thermal carafes don’t keep it warm forever but they don’t make it tast burnt either.

Substitute getting enough sleep plus exercise for coffee, and see how you feel!