what i ate in a week* by Janet G. '27

not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living no more than a 5 minute walk away from friends ⁠01 10 if you’re unlucky and live in simmons and next... jk love my nexties and sims makes every day feel like a constant sleepover and you really get to yap and have fun 

… and not to be meta and all but i just read jebby’s blog draft that she whipped up in 20 minutes and got inspired so now i’ve decided to take this less seriously and i was going to do a lowkey deep post about conversations with friends and meals as a method for socialisation but that’s too much brainpower and pre-amble, SO NOW YOU GUYS GET TO HEAR WHAT I’VE BEEN HAVING FOR DINNER RECENTLY AND WHAT I DO OVER DINNER!! ⁠02 confused? sorry to say that it doesn't really get better from here food reel style. maybe i’m exposing my content consumption a little. oops

yesterday we had a little rpm⁠03 resident peer mentor, which is basically an upperclassman who looks after freshman dinner. the timing of it was lowkey early for me (4:30, considering that this was basically dinner), but because i had just finished a problem set i decided to be jobless and reward myself by just sitting there and eating the really good food that mit administration paid for. we had salmon and chicken and quinoa salad catered from some newbury shop and i have to say it might have been the best food that i’ve had in a while. we were just talking about our experiences looking after baby frosh and it was honestly really cute! a lot of the rpms talked about giving back because their rpms were super helpful to them, and after hearing about their newbury trips i’ve decided to finally commit to making boba with my frosh. frosh if you’re reading this it’s going to happen and it’s not just my stream of consciousness thoughts 

two days ago i was dying over my 6.1210⁠04 introduction to algorithms, a class that began kicking my ass at the start of the semester and has not stopped kicking my ass ever since midterm so i was honestly a bit too stressed to eat that much food. i reheated some leftovers i had from the maseeh⁠05 one of our dorms. affectionately (and sometimes derogatorily) regarded as 'maseeh D' greenbox⁠06 takeout boxes that you can get from the MIT dining halls two days back⁠07 so i haven't gotten food poisoning yet from my adventures and you haven't even heard the worst of it. so trust this was chill and poached an egg with it, and i ate it while stress scrolling some food reels about meal prepping that i have and probably will never get around to using 

three days ago i had a dinner with a friend, Tristan C. ’27, at baker dining which was actually the first time i ate at baker dining again since freshman fall, and i have to admit their bokchoy and sesame chicken that day wasn’t too bad. we were talking about how our education systems were structured because we’re both internationals and how we had to translate all of our weird grading systems over to american norms. ⁠08 did you know that new zealand grades on the N-A-M-E system? quirky until i had to explain this to all the schools i applied to and figure out how to explain that yeah i'm a good student for getting E's instead of A's i also saw like 3 distinct groups of friends at baker dining and none of us ever go there so i guess everyone was just feeling like soba noodles and bokchoy that day 

anyways this is the extent of my memory so i’m going to quit YAPPING about random dinners that i had and maybe one day you’ll get some more substantive takes from me on dinners and random conversations. thanks for coming to my youtube short remember to like and subscribe 😍

*so you will actually notice that 3 is not 7 (not even to the nearest 7, which is a TRAVESTY), which is why i said uh clickbait included i guess. we take a little creativity a little flexibility