Creativity and cookie dough
by Prada Handbag Prada handbagCreativity
and cookie dough
I was in the kitchen of my residence hall making
chocolate chip cookies. Two of my friends and I were jamming to music blaring
out of a laptop and using wooden spoons and spatulas as microphones while
happily rolling cookie dough into balls.
A few more of our friends came
by to see what smelled so good and stayed to hang out.I was just rolling cookie
dough and placing the balls on the tray, but everyone couldn't stop laughing and
no one would tell me why. After demanding to know what was going on and
threatening to smear cookie dough in my friends hair, someone finally told me.
Every time I turned to my left to scoop more cookie dough out of the
bowl, one of my friends would snatch a cookie dough ball off of the cookie sheet
to my right and eat it. And I would contentedly roll another ball and set it
down on the sheet exactly where they had just left an empty space.
I was
furious. I made good on my threats of ambush and several of my friends got
cookie dough in their faces and on their clothing. What few cookies I managed to
bake did turn out scrumptious, and we had a feast.
I remember this night
vividly as one of the many times cooking brought my friends and me closer while
living in the dorms my freshman year. Though we all had meal plans, when dinner
or snack options felt boring and monotonous or we wanted to celebrate a special
occasion, we headed to the kitchen.
We cooked doubled recipes of chicken
casserole and heaping bowls of pasta. We made birthday cakes, brownies,
chocolate chip cookies, cake cookies, s mores cookies, pancakes, French toast
the options seemed endless. We were constantly browsing the Internet for new
ideas.
I was known throughout my floor for always having a baked good
for my fellow hallmates to taste test. There was a door to a stairwell right
next to the kitchen, and people would walk by and yell, What are you baking
now, Alyssa?
Baking was an outlet for me to relieve my stress. And I
loved being able to hand out my creations to everyone on my floor. It was my
hope that an unexpected cookie might make their day a little brighter.
By the time winter break rolled around at the end of my first semester,
I had a cooking stash in my room that took up an entire shelf of my closet: bags
of flour and sugar obscuring boxes of baking soda and bottles of vanilla
extract, wooden spoons and pot holders poking out from pans and bowls stacked
precariously on top of shiny cookie sheets.
It was not uncommon for one
of my friends to poke his or her head into my room and say,High quality indoor Tracking printing for business
cards. Hey, can I borrow your [insert any random cooking object here]?
Cooking in the dorms is a great way to bond and spice up your daily
routine. Living on campus does not mean being stuck in a meal plan. Most of the
ingredients my friends and I used could be purchased in a convenience store in
one of the residence halls or at Wegmans, which we could get to by bus.
The night before the first of our friends left for the end of the year,
we had a huge pasta dinner as a floor family and talked about our memories of
the year. Even though freshmen are required to have a meal plan, this doesn t
have to mean feeling trapped within a swipe of your UB card. Cooking was a
bonding experience for us, and it is an option for others, too.
Morning
light shines softly through a large glass window as a travel-weary Michio Kaku
gamely musters a smile. Just a few hours removed from a cross-country flight
from the East Coast, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this
physicist is plain tired. Then the camera starts rolling. In an instant, Kaku
looks rejuvenated as he plays to his audience and waxes poetic about his
favorite subject -- science.
In the world occupied by nerds and techno
geeks, theoretical physicist and futurist Kaku is akin to a rock star. Chalk it
up to a flowing mane of pepper-gray locks and the fact he co-created string
field theory (which tries to unravel the inner workings of the universe). These
days, Kaku can mostly be found teaching at City College of New York where he
holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics. When he
isn't teaching, Kaku still spends most of his extra time talking science,
whether it be through his radio programs, best-selling books such as Physics of
the Future or appearances on shows like The Colbert Report, where he recently
enlightened Stephen Colbert about the dangers of sending Bruce Willis into space
to blow up a deadly asteroid. As fun as it is for Kaku to talk physics, however,
he also considers it a matter of survival.
"When I was a child, it was
cool to be a scientist," Kaku says. "Remember Sputnik? When Sputnik went up, it
just shocked the country and all of a sudden, physicists were superstars. It was
your patriotic duty to learn nuclear physics to go head to head with the
Russians because the future of the country depended on it. And then, we lost it
-- we lost all of that momentum."
It's a change that still stings for
Kaku, which is why he finds himself jetlagged in places like Reno, Nev., trying
to drum up interest in his favorite subject at local universities. Just like
fellow science evangelists Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Greene, Kaku's goal is
quite simple: help science get back its mojo and nurture the next wave of rock
stars by engaging the public.
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