Word: venti
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Hunter A. Maats ’04 knows a venti when he sees one. He can tell the difference between a latte and a café au lait. So a job at Starbucks would seem perfect, no? “If you have a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, you can’t work for Starbucks,” Maats says. After being rejected by the gourmet coffee trade, Maats joined up with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest...
...size of the latte could be adjusted to the amount of sleep I had. A healthy night’s sleep could lead to a grande. Two long nights of sleep might even let me skip the second cup. But a night out—automatic venti...
...three in the afternoon in Paris as I leave Espace Ephemère, making it nine in the morning Cambridge. My mind wanders back to Harvard. The Yard is currently crowded with tired Chemistry concentrators and neurotic Starbucks junkies just leaving the garage with their Venti Triple Soy Lattes. Instead of delicate tuxedo shirts and elegant stilettos, there are North Face jackets, jeans and dirtied sneakers. In place of swinging arms and pouty lips, tense shoulders and downward stares make the criss-crossing runways from Boylston to Holworthy sloppy and out of sync...
Caveat: voters may mistake Venti for phony French instead of phony Italian...
...just 30 you can upgrade that grande Slushee to a Venti...