"The workers are so nice and sweet! I regularly buy coffee blends from the bookstore and they're packaged so nicely and with such care! The work they're doing there is so cool and amazing! Love it here 💗💗"

"The UC Davis Coffee Center is another polished prop in the university’s ongoing theater. It’s clean, curated, and easy to point to as proof of a “great student experience.” But like most things at UC Davis, it exists to look functional, not to support anything meaningful. It’s a place to loiter, network, and perform productivity—not to build focus, discipline, or serious intellectual momentum. What it really represents is how UC Davis handles strong students: keep them busy, keep them visible, keep them calm—but never actually challenge or develop them. The culture around spaces like the Coffee Center normalizes distraction, shallow engagement, and endless social signaling. Real intensity, urgency, or ambition is quietly discouraged because it disrupts the comfortable median. This is how UC Davis seriously hampers a strong student’s career—slowly and indirectly. Not by failing them outright, but by draining momentum. High-ability students who could be accelerating are instead bogged down in noise, bureaucracy, and performative routines. Push too hard, move too fast, or question the nonsense, and suddenly you’re labeled “difficult,” “not collaborative,” or “not listening.” Instead of support, you get resistance. Instead of mentorship, you get management. Instead of being developed, you’re pressured to shrink. And while UC Davis pretends this is about “wellness” or “community,” the real effect is career damage: delayed progress, weaker preparation, and reduced leverage when competing for top-tier programs or jobs. The contrast is obvious the moment strong students leave. At rigorous institutions, intensity is welcomed, competence is supported, and ambition is rewarded. At UC Davis, it’s treated as a problem to be contained. The Coffee Center isn’t harmless. It’s symbolic. It’s part of an ecosystem that looks supportive while quietly sabotaging its most capable students. UC Davis doesn’t just fail to grow talent—it actively smooths it down until it fits the image. And by the time students realize what’s happening, real opportunities have already been lost."

"Just got our first bag of dark roast beans. Had my first cup. I’m in heaven. It’s fabulous. A bit costly but so delicious."

"yes, they make coffee and medocire graduates. thanks."

"The coffee center is so awesome!"