I'm really craving a carmel apple cider right about now

I admit, I miss the coffee culture back in Seattle.

Of course, as a Mormon, my coffee consumption was much lower than the average Seattlite, but I fondly remember sitting at the tables, talking with friends and sipping from my overpriced, but blissfully delicious carmel apple cider. We would complete group projects huddled together around one or two laptops, and one time I spent an entire day in a Starbucks, filling out college applications, safe from the iconic, drizzling Seattle winter rains outside.

Cozy, warm atmospheres are hard to come by in Utah during the winter. A coffee shop certainly could remedy that. Unfortunately, the closest coffee shop is miles away at the Barnes and Noble in Orem, hardly accessible without a car. Other than that, anything close to a coffee shop atmosphere is nonexistent in Utah. I'm jealous, for sure, of other colleges, who are surrounded by a phalanx of coffee shops to serve their every caffeinated whim, packed to the brim with college students finishing projects and studying for midterms.

Unfortunately for me, midterms are often studied at a bike in the gym or in the cold, basement levels of the Harold B. Lee Library. A fine place to study, for sure, but without the comfortable couches, classy jazz music and an overpriced carmel apple cider within arm's reach.