Short review: Easily the best coffee shop and cafe on campus…read more
Long review: Imagine you're a senior engineering student. It's Friday, so you pop by your favorite on-campus coffee shop, Two Creek, with a friend and grab an oat-milk cappuccino, and what the heck, throw in a bag of vegan, gluten free cookies. Good cappuccino, perfect thing to make your first class less boring, even somewhat pleasant. Forget about the cookies in your bag, they'll wait until tonight.
Fine day, a few classes, a few conversations and an early lunch and you're done. It's 2 PM, so you figure you could pop by your undergraduate research job and run a test you thought you got ready on Tuesday. Turns out it'll take two hours to set up. Your boss is busy so you get her top lab to help you out. He keeps trying to do his own job, but you keep bothering him so he 'leads you by the hand' through the belated test set-up. He leaves, you finish setting up. You take your first test readings, grab sample number 1, raise the test solutions PH, and repeat. But you goofed on the PH, lower it and take your readings. Raise it again and take the next reading, one of your machines is giving weird numbers, but that's okay, right? Raise the PH and collect sample 4, oh wait, you've only grabbed one other sample. Frick. Call your boss to scrap the test. They come down and agree, you need to redo the test and the machine is being weird. Spend two hours cleaning up, questioning your life, and have your sister text you asking where you are. Leave the lab, anxious, shaky, and hangry. Get ready for your 1.5 hour commute home. It's late so every store, food place, and cafe on campus are closed. Open your bag to get a sip of water for your parched mouth, and there they are. The cookies. Elation and quick carbs fill you. They're pretty good, or you're mighty hungry. Your night has been saved.
That's what Two Creek is, a bright spot at the beginning, or end, of an unpredictable college day.