Cafes: getting closer to the heart of Redwood City

BY VIVIAN KREVOR AND ABIGAIL AGUAYO A&E Editor and Graphics Editor

With summer beginning to feel like a distant memory, the middle of the school year is a time dense with homework. Everyone at Sequoia has personal strategies that help them focus on work or relax, cafes being a convenient location for either. Luckily for us, Sequoia is near one of the most popular parts of Redwood City, with Philz Coffee, Coupa Cafe, and Coffeebar within a 15 minute walk.

Cafes have a notoriously romanticized aura in shows and on social media; we are set out to find the most enjoyable-and possibly cinematic-cafe studying environment. Cafes often offer a cross section of people doing different things: grabbing lunch with friends, on a work grind, having a relaxing moment, fueling with caffeine before a hectic day, or people-watching to a potentially creepy extent. The appeal to doing homework in a cafe may be the environment making its customers feel a sense of connection to the world. While study methods are personal, Sequoia students luckily have the choice to study at many cafes, all of which we reviewed effectively making an environment of connection.

Junior Gabrielle Vella, a regular cafe studier, explained why her home isn’t always the ideal location to study.

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