September 30th, 2007
A Starbucks in the College Library?
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As an MBA student at IIMB, I spent an absolutely obscene number of nights in the institute library. The canteen closed at midnight and an insomniacs like me could only get my nocturnal caffeine kicks from a canister of terrible South Indian coffee that the canteen folks very considerately left behind. Even during daytime, the best coffee you could get in campus was from a vending machine, and you know how bland vending machine coffee can be. That changed, by the way, in my second year, when I spent most of my nights in the girls hostel, rarely reading, and had my coffee brewed in an electric kettle.
You can probably imagine the mixed emotions I felt when I went back to campus a couple of years back and found the students hanging out at a brand new Cafe Coffee Day outlet inside the campus. The campus had found a new favorite public space.
