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...adult specter of Debt). That there is actually very little that needs to be purchased during termtime, particularly given the required meal plan, is a fact conveniently overlooked by the serial spender. I can testify to many a joyful afternoon whiled away my first year among the aisles of CVS opposite the Yard, entering the store under the ostensible purpose of buying a toothbrush or other inarguably essential product, and leaving with bags of entirely frivolous drugstore-related goodies, particuarly those in gimmicky packaging...
...those not so inexplicably enamored of travel-sized toiletries (of which the Mass Ave. CVS has an admirable selection) and their ilk but still looking to burn a hole in their pockets, Harvard Square luckily also seems to specialize in entirely useless stores designed purely to sell, well, things of various sorts to newly-flush students. Think entire parts of said “gift shops” devoted to toys that look like assorted Japanese foods, fluorescent-colored hosiery and pasta in naughty shapes, and you’ll get a reasonably accurate picture of what one might...
Harvard students dying for some late-night action have one more option: CVS Pharmacy now stays open 24 hours a day, making it that much easier to buy such essentials as VHS copies of The Blair Witch Project and Odwalla antioxidant smoothies, not to mention all the usual drugstore staples. Yet after spending six hours in the store, from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., it doesn’t seem as though many have taken CVS up on its offer of permanently open doors...
...that come in find what they need on the first floor, and the pharmacy on the second floor is closed. “It wasn’t going to be enough of a money maker to keep it open,” Madden explains, “and CVS didn’t want to be held liable if something happened with drugs bought from their pharmacy at this hour...
Maybe some students are accustomed to pulling all-nighters in Cabot or Lamont, but spending it in CVS would be a far cry from studying. While there is nowhere to sit, there’s a whole lot to eat, and the music is pretty good. All they need now is a liquor license to turn it from silent to slammin?...