The IGSS Coffee House is a long-standing tradition which encourages everyone to share their talents, interests, preoccupations, and idiosyncratic obsessions. Twice a month we make time to allow students to entertain their peers; students regularly surprise us with their interests and abilities. For example this year we have been regaled by students who have recited poetry, played music, walked on stilts, performed magic, made us laugh with stand up comedy, showed us their work in video and wowed us with Irish dance. IGSS Coffee House is an effective tradition for allowing us to see ourselves and to grow into a close-knit community.