Delicious Things

Delicious Things Despite how many mailing lists Im on, Im not an active member of many organizations. I show up for events randomly, but dont attend meetings for most of these groups. Not because I dont want to, but because here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do commit ahealthyamount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of that, I try to show for whatever sounds cool. And you know what sounds cool? Food. So like 90% of MIT events have freeeeeeeee foooooooood. Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and soon free food isnt a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2-hour lecture. But I couldnt ignore the email from the Association of Taiwanese Students in my inbox a couple weeks ago: Cooking workshop. Oh, yeah, it was free food, but much, much better. Its like an engineering international service project instead of flat-out donations: sustainable. You know the whole give a man a fish, hell eat for a day, etc.Well, that phrase came to life when I heard about this thing. Especially since I cook for myself most of the time I rarely go to the student center or LaVerdes. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I mostly live off my credit card.) Its always good how to learn to cook new things. So I went with My Suitemate Linda, and we learned how to make wontons (which Linda already knew how to make, so hers looked a lot cooler than mine). It was great like watching the Food Network live! We also learned how to make mochi, which I didnt like much because I dont like red bean stuff: Cucumber meatballs (I had never heard of these before, and I couldnt even find a wikipedia page for them): And my personal favorite, onigiri: Talking to a mathematics grad student recently, he mentioned how he has learned more from his peers at MIT than the actual lectures or professors, and I think this is 100% true. There are so many opportunities available, both in high school and college, to learn about things outside the classroom that will come in handy one day (perhaps when youre very very hungry and only have rice, rou song and rice vinegar sitting around). Be sure to enjoy them! I know I do *Thanks to the Glorious Gloria Yang for the pictures!