[ouch] no more! {science & cooking}
Very good news below (and I was sure it would never happen)!
Rejection hurts! I’ve been looking forward to the new Science and Cooking class offered this semester, featuring Ferran Adrià (El Bulli) , Joan Roca (El Celler de Can Roca), Grant Achatz (Alinea), and all the other culinary superstars you can think of, since last year (proof). Sadly, I was brutally (ok, not really brutally) rejected from the class lottery - didn’t even make it onto the waiting list! Pretty disappointed and annoyed that they didn’t give any preference to seniors like most lotteries do (we will never have another chance to take courses like this!!!). Although with my luck, senior preference probably wouldn’t have made a difference anyway :P. Many of my friends (including Lingbo) did end up getting in, either directly or by getting off the waiting list, so I will just have to live vicariously through them!
Anyway, I’m done moping, especially after hearing that the science part of the class, which I was actually excited about, is very dumbed down and boring. Plus, Ivy (who also did not get in) and I have plans to learn the techniques from class (and even cooler stuff) on our own to continue our awesome food science adventures - she is trying to do a VES thesis related to food, very cool. And of course, we will just stealthily sneak into all the lectures that the celebrity chefs appear at…
Mwahaha by some miracle I’m IN!!! Just got an email Sunday from the prof saying there were a few spots left in the (excruciatingly early) Monday morning section so I can join if still interested! After all the lottery drama and reports of very dumbed-down science, I started feeling like the class was a bit overrated and not really as great as we all expected, so I actually had to think for a while about whether I wanted to add it so late…a short while though - almost all my friends in the class say they have liked it a lot so far, despite some inevitable flaws, so I think I will enjoy it. Still bittersweet though because, having become quite a Boston-phile, I really like the “Reinventing Boston” class I added in place of S&C and will have to drop now (sorry, food > pretty much anything else). Ivy is staying in it though, which means I can just tag along on her neighborhood visits in the city and enjoy the fun of the class without having to do all the writing assignments, yay!
