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So im one of those perpetual starbucks dwellers. I cannot study anywhere else. I just started tracking how much coffee i drink a day....its insane. Apart from the health ramifications i have realized that a triple shot gives me the perfect amount of focus for 2 sections or so and then my brain shuts off. My score normally starts tanking at section 3 on most PTs EXCEPT if its LG. Im attributing this to coffee over fatigue bc i can do 6 or 7 timed sections and be ok if i have coffee. What do i do?
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@elliottscott8814 said:
blehhhhhhhh :smile:
Haha. I second that!
@jhaldy10325 said:
@elliottscott8814 said:
so no black coffee for you then? I'm drinking an organic french roast with a splash of soy milk right now haha ;)
Lol. No way. If it's not at least 80% milk and sugar with a fancy name that arbitrarily ends with a "-ccino," then it's not for me
blehhhhhhhh :smile:
@elliottscott8814 said:
so no black coffee for you then? I'm drinking an organic french roast with a splash of soy milk right now haha ;)
Lol. No way. If it's not at least 80% milk and sugar with a fancy name that arbitrarily ends with a "-ccino," then it's not for me.
@jhaldy10325 said:
Hey it's 5 o'clock somewhere, right?
Today, I'm drinking Guatemala el Injerto Natural from Equator Coffee. Bright, sparkling acidity, floral aroma with notes of strawberry syrup and brandy.
so no black coffee for you then? I'm drinking an organic french roast with a splash of soy milk right now haha ;)
@uhinberg359 said:
Sounds like an awesome webinar subject!
Haha, I wonder if JY would approve that. An argument could definitely be made that it's relevant to studying for the LSAT. Without good coffee, I'd've only scored a 125.
@jhaldy10325 said:
Man...you sound like you need to come out west to San Francisco and Portland. We have a coffee shop on every street that knows how to make the best coffee! You'd be in heaven.
Always wanted to make it out that way. Did LA for a week, but that's about the extent of my West Coast experience. Some great coffee spots there if you know where to look, but definitely not the kind of ubiquitous coffee culture that higher up the coast is so well known for.
@jhaldy10325 said:
@uhinberg359 said:
Looks like you're gonna need a job in Biglaw to support that gourmet taste!
Cheaper than Starbucks;) The trick is just knowing how to make it well. Grab a bur grinder, a gooseneck kettle, and a clever coffee dripper, and you'll be set.
Man...you sound like you need to come out west to San Francisco and Portland. We have a coffee shop on every street that knows how to make the best coffee! You'd be in heaven.
Sounds like an awesome webinar subject!
@uhinberg359 said:
Looks like you're gonna need a job in Biglaw to support that gourmet taste!
Cheaper than Starbucks;) The trick is just knowing how to make it well. Grab a bur grinder, a gooseneck kettle, and a clever coffee dripper, and you'll be set.
@jhaldy10325 said:
Hey it's 5 o'clock somewhere, right?
Today, I'm drinking Guatemala el Injerto Natural from Equator Coffee. Bright, sparkling acidity, floral aroma with notes of strawberry syrup and brandy.
Looks like you're gonna need a job in Biglaw to support that gourmet taste!
Hey it's 5 o'clock somewhere, right?
Today, I'm drinking Guatemala el Injerto Natural from Equator Coffee. Bright, sparkling acidity, floral aroma with notes of strawberry syrup and brandy.
@jhaldy10325 said:
Oh man! Everyone make sure to go get some Folgers. I heard it's @jhaldy10325 favorite. He recommends it to everyone I think.
(Sarcastic)
I heard that too. It's carefully crafted and hand picked in some town in Mississippi and has notes of crap and vomit and bad things. Delicious! :D
@rahelaalam514 said:
@uhinberg359 said:
Happy National Coffee Day to all 7Sage coffee drinkers, especially @jhaldy10325
isn't that tomorrow O_O
Oh. I just got an e-mail for some coffee special in honor of the day. I guess it was one day early.
Oh man! Everyone make sure to go get some Folgers. I heard it's @jhaldy10325 favorite. He recommends it to everyone I think.
(Sarcastic)
I'm drinking some coffee rn actually :sunglasses: French vanilla creamer
@uhinberg359 said:
Happy National Coffee Day to all 7Sage coffee drinkers, especially @jhaldy10325
isn't that tomorrow O_O
Happy National Coffee Day to all 7Sage coffee drinkers, especially @jhaldy10325
Yeah, that sounds like a cool dissertation @rahelaalam514 . I'd actually really love to read it, lol. The issue with Starbucks is essentially just the quality/quantity equation. At their scale, there's just no way around accommodating quantity. They can't source the best coffees which are typically smaller lots, and they have to create roast profiles with consistency in mind rather than with highlighting the best properties of the coffee--hence the characteristic dark roasts which are typically considered undesirable by coffee professionals. Other than K-pods where you're ultimately paying about $50 a pound(!!), Starbucks is the worst value for the money in coffee. There's a lot of other considerations beyond the product itself, of course, and I really don't mean to hate on The 'bucks, but if you really want to give coffee a fair shot, try out a local place with a partnership with a good regional roaster like Counter Culture or Equator or something like that. It'll taste better, and a much higher proportion of what you pay will stay within your community and with the farming communities that make it all possible. #local , lol.
@jhaldy10325 said:
@rahelaalam514 said:
I can't do black coffee, it tastes so bad to me. I can do without the milk if I'm put in that situation, but I'd at least need like ONE sugar pack or something in it lol
99% of the coffee out there is bad coffee (Yes, this most definitely includes Starbucks, although they've done wonderful things for the specialty coffee industry and coffee culture more broadly). If you try a coffee that's from a good farm, that's from a reputable roaster, that's been roasted within the last two weeks (aka is fresh), and that has been properly prepared, you may find that the problem isn't that you don't like coffee but that you simply have excellent taste and have been correct in disliking terrible coffee.
You're probably right..
I've only tasted black coffee once and hated it, so I prob should give another type a try without any added stuff..
I love Starbucks though lol. love love love it, specifically like 4 drinks only, but love it. even though I love Starbucks, I think many of the drinks they have are actually not that good.. for example, pumpkin spice lattes are overrated af and taste terrible.. lol. overall though, sbux is just an acquired taste I guess.. I actually had a nutrition prof who wrote her dissertation on that exact topic of sbux being an acquired taste. it was pretty interesting when she showed us the details, but I can't remember any since it was like 3 years ago lol
@rahelaalam514 said:
I can't do black coffee, it tastes so bad to me. I can do without the milk if I'm put in that situation, but I'd at least need like ONE sugar pack or something in it lol
99% of the coffee out there is bad coffee (Yes, this most definitely includes Starbucks, although they've done wonderful things for the specialty coffee industry and coffee culture more broadly). If you try a coffee that's from a good farm, that's from a reputable roaster, that's been roasted within the last two weeks (aka is fresh), and that has been properly prepared, you may find that the problem isn't that you don't like coffee but that you simply have excellent taste and have been correct in disliking terrible coffee.
I drink coffee all day long. It's pretty awful. Studies flip flop all day long on the ramifications/health benefits of coffee. But here's a couple of things. Try Yerba Matte, people dig that stuff. It's supposed to be healthier than coffee with less burn out. As far as weaning yourself off coffee, try this. Cold turkey is really hard way to quit a lot of things. Try attrition. Start by doing this: As them to put two shots of espresso and one decaf. See how that feels. Then start taking less and less if you want to quit it together. I did this with smoking. I continually pushed back allowable smoking times until my body got used to not smoking. Then when I did smoke, I really felt it and it began associating smoking with feeling bad rather than feeling "better" after smoking.
I accidentally lost my coffee tolerance a while ago. Doctor ordered me to drink lots of green tea and I stopped coffee for a few weeks. Now I get BAD shakes if I have regular coffee again! :( I drink decaf a few times a week though. But, coffee makes me have to pee super bad about an hour afterward so think I'm gonna go with just some green tea that morning. Less pee urgency, but still a pop of caffeine.
so what is everyone doing on the exam then?
Oh gosh. Cold turkey is a bit intense. Maybe try decaf for a little?
Caffeine withdrawal headaches are the real deal.
although that may just be a correlation and not a causation ;)
or I may be failing to consider alternative possibilities such as it being all in my head that the lack of coffee caused me to have a headache ;)