Do Students Drink Too Much Coffee?

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Ibram Hanna

Sophomore Cece Schroeder drinks her daily coffee before first period.

Alyssa Taylor, Staff Writer

Sophomore Cece Schroeder drinks her daily coffee in before first period.
Ibram Hanna
Sophomore Cece Schroeder drinks her daily coffee before first period.

Do students drink too much coffee?

Yes, students do drink too much coffee.

Students consume coffee on a day-to-day basis to get through the four years they have of high school. In order to get themselves past the long days and short nights, undergraduates find themselves drinking way more coffee than they should be.

Monica Tso wrote, “Students are becoming more dependent on caffeine to balance their rigorous study habits and improve their everyday moods” (1).

Coffee has become a way of life for most students since it helps them get passing grades with their tight schedules and lack of sleep. The more coffee is consumed, the more energy the consumer will have. The energy does not start immediately, which causes people to take in more coffee. This act ends up leaving them with the inability to go to sleep when they are done with their studies, thus making them need coffee in the morning to stay awake to retain new information.

While students drink coffee to stay awake, others may have a lot of coffee because they enjoy the taste of it. They drink it since there are now many options of coffee from stores like Starbucks. Because of these options, students feel the need to have coffee whenever they feel like it, as opposed to when it is needed. This new variety also makes possible for undergraduates to like to have coffee because of its taste.

Bryant Simon stated, “What makes young customers good customers is that they generally buy expensive, high-profit drinks, like Frappuccinos” (2). Students have become the target audience for stores like Starbucks because of their desire to drink lots of coffee.

Coffee has become such a popular drink now that it is consumed more than it should be. Not a day will go by where coffee will not be spotted on the desks of students. Whether a student in high school drinks coffee to stay awake or because he or she like the taste a lot, the amount of coffee being consumed in high school is too much.

 

CITATIONS

(1) “Coffee the Norm for Growing Number of Children.” TODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct.      2014.

 

(2) Tso, Monica. “Students Dependency on the Buzz of Coffee Increases- The Daily Cougar.”        The Daily Cougar ICal. N.p., 24 Jan. 2013. Web. 12 Oct. 2014.