Week Fourteen

Issues from Class Presentations
A couple of results really surprised me from the other presentations. The first was from the group who looked at the three different coffee shops on State Street. I don't remember the exact statistic, but a good portion of the customers surveyed said that they frequently visited other coffee shops than the one they took the survey at. I would have expected that people find a favorite location to get their coffee from and to study at and then use this shop the majority of the time. That's typically what I tend to do. I find one place that I really enjoy and one drink that I really like and usually stick to it. I'm the same way with the places I study at. If I find one place I really like to study, I typically continue going to that same spot (for me, it's usually somewhere in the library). I guess I was just surprised at the variety of places the customers patronize. At the same time, however, I am glad to hear that Starbucks isn't completely monopolizing the business and that the smaller independent shops are doing just fine!

Another issue that surprised me was the amount of people the bus-riding group observed reading on the buses, especially the coach to Chicago. I would have expected many more people to be reading on these buses. I used to take the Badger bus to Milwaukee to visit my boyfriend before I got a car, and it always seemed that a lot of people were reading. Although, now that I think about it, plenty of people were sleeping too. I agree with the group that because they observed the bus near the Thanksgiving holiday that perhaps they did not see the typical group of riders.

Free Post
On Monday I finally made it to my first basketball game of the season. I have had season tickets every year, and I usually make it to the majority of the games, but this year I had to miss the first seven (yikes!) because of school and being out of town. I knew that my seats were on the first deck, row AA. I thought this row was about 13 rows up or so (I thought the single letter rows came first), but when I got there I found out that my seats are FRONT ROW! I was so excited, the season is going to be awesome!