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...feel like royalty when they order any one of the café’s delicious hot teas, which are available by the pot ($6) and are served in porcelain teapots with silver strainers. Some of the suggested flavors include Bouddah Bleu, Bourbon and Karmel. For a main dish, try the grilled chicken breast with asparagus and wild mushroom salad ($21) or the grilled focaccia with grilled portobello mushroom, roasted pepper and goat cheese ($19)—both are light and flavorful. The raspberry and pistachio napoleon with amaretto cream ($12) is the perfect ending to an elegant...
...November. The café is far from the typical college hangout—the food is too good, the customers are too patronizing (even for Harvard students) and the general atmosphere is much too see-and-be-seen. Those on a tight college budget unwilling to dish out the cash and deal with the attitude should choose to go elsewhere. With its hip reputation and high-end customers, the café will appeal only to those confident fashionistas who are not easily intimidated...
...September of my sophomore year, I spent the better share of a day running back and forth between my third-floor room in Currier and the courtyard along Garden Street with a pencil, a compass and a screwdriver. My suitemate, Charles, screamed down instructions as I wrestled our satellite dish into place, adjusted it to compensate for the somewhat ‘untraditional’ orientation of Currier House with respect to the cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips, nails and twist...
Were I a better liar, or a more standard college student, or maybe just better company, I’d describe with zest the extra sports channels our satellite dish brought in, or the added movie channels, or the free porn, or the fourteen episodes of Seinfeld beamed in daily. I could even talk about how much fun it would be to host weekly “24” parties to flaunt the crystal-clear reception and impressive sound. It would even make sense: “24” is a show of cult-like obsession...
This, though, would betray an important and embarrassing truth. The only thing that kept me out there, steeled against the rain and straining against the wind to affix my satellite dish, was the biting and driving need...