I found the coffee room when I was a young child and wandered into my Yeshiva’s coffee room. Ever since, I was addicted to that room where I used to pick up on some mature talk. It was probably the place where I got the nack for politics and other intellectual topics (I like to think that politics is intellectual although it isn’t nowadays).
When I left Yeshiva, I longed for the coffee room. After many years, Yeshiva World came to the rescue. However, it seems like the members of this coffee room prefer chit-chat over intellectual topics ;(