{"id":11770,"date":"2026-07-21T20:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:36:42","slug":"listen-our-summer-fling-with-the-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/07\/listen-our-summer-fling-with-the-vending-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Our summer fling with the vending machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"LISTEN: Our Summer Fling with the Vending Machines by Medill Cherubs\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2365371437&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[CHERUBS AUDIO THEME MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If there\u2019s one thing cherubs love, it\u2019s food. After long days spent writing stories, listening to lectures and doing interviews, we always go to one place: the vending machines. For Claire Lin, they\u2019re very convenient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[VENDING MACHINE SOUND]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLAIRE LIN: When I come down here, it\u2019s because I don\u2019t like walking to Allison or anywhere to eat. After lectures, I\u2019m starving, I\u2019m thirsty, I\u2019m tired but I\u2019m never too tired to walk down the stairs and get chips.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Alice Xiao, the vending machines have a lot of new food items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[VENDING MACHINE SOUND]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ALICE XIAO: I\u2019m a huge fan of the vending machine. Whenever you can\u2019t track me down, head to the vending machine at Fisk! I got a bottle of apple juice today, since I\u2019ve basically tried every juice they have here. I try to pick something new every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The selection of food from the vending machines is limited, but it has a few gems that cherubs like Emerson Roux enjoy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EMERSON ROUX: I\u2019ve used the ones, um, downstairs in Jones the most often, especially when I really just want like a Coke and I\u2019m just craving a Coke and I don\u2019t feel like walking all the way to Allison to get it. I\u2019ve also gotten candy from the vending machine a couple times. I really like the Airheads Bites specifically. I got those before the movie night that John hosted, so that was great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The availability of the vending machines is new to the program. Cynthia Wang, a senior instructor and former cherub, didn\u2019t have any vending machines to use when she was at the program in 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CYNTHIA WANG: I wish there were vending machines but I don\u2019t remember any in Fisk when I was a cherub. There was a grocery store, I guess on the corner by Target, called Jewel-Osco so you bought snacks there, and that was the only way you were going to get any snacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[CHERUBS AUDIO THEME MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least we don\u2019t have to deal with that! Reporting for Cherubs Audio, I\u2019m Pranya Duvvuru. 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