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DG x Study Spots - On Campus

Some of OUR favorite study spots. Look out for us at these spots (or more) in fall when classes begin! Be on the lookout for more of our favorite spots for studying and beyond.

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Updates!

Hey everyone,

To make everyone's lives a little easier and hopefully a little less snarky, I've updated the FYUChicago FAQ, stuff like new tags, tips on how to search our blog and if fun really does come to die here...

Let us know if you think there are any other questions we should include in the FAQ and thanks for reading!

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1,000 Followers

So incredibly excited about this milestone for us!

Maroon love,

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What was your transfer GPA? Were your classes rigorous?

My GPA transferring into UChicago was a 3.33 but I'd say that's on the lower end for a transfer coming from a 4 year.

I mean, I don't know, yes and no. I went to a great school but I was personally challenged.

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The student run newspaper of UChicago covered our first ever pour over bar held on Tuesday! It was a great event for all of us, having the chance to brew and talk to people about coffee. I think the article captured very well what we were trying to do: to change how we think about coffee. And we hope that the Nueva Llusta (brewed with an infusion Aeropress with its dried raisins and chocolate favors), along with the Tairora (brewed with a v60 drip) provided a small insight into what great coffee is and what coffee could be.

We are very thankful for the support that Counter Culture Coffee (which already provides for Logan) has provided, not just in terms of the coffee beans but also in terms of the training that they provided. Great folks (hey Josh, Rich and Chad)! They also run a free coffee cupping session every Friday at 10am, which is wonderful because it helps us develop our palates. Having great pastries made specially for the cupped coffees doesn’t hurt either. Aaron and I head down every Friday for the cuppings and if any of you are keen on seeing what it’s like, you’re welcome to join us! It’s a great experience and even though I’ve been down a couple of times it always blows my mind.

We collected a total of $24.50 in terms of donations, with more money being collected from the Nueva Llusta (yay!). The reason why we have a donation box there is because as much as we think free coffee is wonderful, we also want everyone to understand that there is no such thing as a free coffee. A tremendous amount of work goes into each and every cup: from the growers, the pickers, the processing to the roasting and the brewing, and none of that can ever be free. The donations will go towards the SEEDs program, which is a fund run by Counter Culture Coffee, meant to support projects to improve quality of life in coffee growing communities such as Honduras or Burundi. Twice a year, coffee growers and its communities can apply for funding for various projects, such as water filtration systems or school buildings, which are funded up to $5000 a project. The fund was a total of $24,000 last year and our donation box is a way to giving back to the community that has provided the wonderful coffee that we can all enjoy.

In addition, we will be having a coffee workshop sometime in week 8, probably a Saturday or a Sunday, so watch out for it. We have limited space available, but don’t worry if you can’t make this one, come back after summer and you’ll definitely get the chance too!

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Join us for dotCross Coffee Project's first pourover bar! We're featuring 2 Counter Culture coffees, the Baroida (Papua New Guinea) and the Nueva Llusta (Bolivia), and we're brewing it completely FREE for you - though we'll have a donation box with proceeds going to the Seeds fund by Counter Culture Coffee, which goes to programmes supporting coffee growing communities. Just come down (up) to HARPER CAFE (3rd floor, Harper, East Tower) this coming Tuesday the 30th from 3-5pm, where we have our pop-up bar. Try one (or even two ) great coffees, hand brewed individually and specially on the spot for you.Taste coffee like you've never tasted it before: like dried cherries, raisins, sundried tomatoes (!) We'd LOVE it if you would stay and chat with our baristas to find out more about coffee. And we'd put good money on you finding out something you didn't know about coffee; be it about how the beans are made, or how its brewed, or even how it's drunk around the world. Hell, we'll give you free coffee if you don't. Coffee's always better with friends, so grab a friend or two and come over. We're making good on our promise to bring better coffee appreciation to campus. Thanks for supporting us for the Uncommon Fund 2013 and watch out for the Coffee Appreciation Workshop.

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You all might have known before, but we are applying for funding from the Uncommon Fund!

Coffee isn’t just caffeine. Coffee should not be glossed over and lumped into one amorphous thing.

We want to bring in professionals to run coffee tasting and appreciation workshops as well as provide pourover coffees on campus.

If you have a UChicago ID and believe in what we do, click the link above and put in a vote for us. We’ll greatly appreciate it. If not, share this, or like this! We’ll love you very much for it.