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Barmymoo:
Sieves are so useful! :-o Obviously if I am baking I will need to sift flour, sugar and so forth, but also they are a cheap and simple alternative to a colander when draining vegetables, and if I make an apple pie or something else involving stewed fruit I will be able to separate the juice from the pulp with no wastage.
Man, ever so often I forget that the US and the UK really don't speak the same language.
smack that isaiah:
Hrmm, we totally didn't consider cooking (we're all dudes in my room, so maybe that's a reason? Although, one of my roommates is gay and he didn't think of cooking...)
All my experience with sieves had come from time at the beach when I was younger, trying to separate sand from shells, and occasionally finding worn down glass.
I've never had to sift flour or sugar when I cooked anything when I was younger (either my mother didn't care about clumps, or there weren't any?). And, in my college, the dorms don't have individual kitchens (the apartments do, but not the dorms), but rather one communal one that hardly anyone uses cause it's so old. None of us cook our own food past merely heating something up in a microwave. It'd be nice if someone made a pie, but I doubt it's gonna happen.
Bastardous Bassist:
My roommates and I cooked all the time in college, even when they were mostly male. In fact, I've only really had one roommate who didn't cook (by which I mean he subsisted Easy Mac and take-out food).
--- Quote from: Elizzybeth on 21 Sep 2009, 12:46 ---A lot of bakers sift flour.
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When I worked in a kitchen, we actually used a whip instead. Probably because we were baking large amounts of stuff, and it didn't make sense to put all of it through a sifter. Now, I use a sieve for sifting flour (along with other dry ingredients, because it mixes them a bit), dusting deserts with stuff like powdered sugar or cocoa and squeezing fruit (especially lemons) into sauces. I broke down and bought a colander because I usually washed a lot of vegetables.
Aimless:
Guys, this my sixth semester at uni is the most relaxing ever!
The first half of this semester is for a research project, which I started working on in the beginning of this summer as a summer-job, and the second half is an introduction to internal medicine, surgery, and various clinical skills. This is the semester between a murderous pathology course and a murderous internal medicine/surgery course, and it feels like heaven :) feels like a very very long summer break.
Here in Sweden, courses in med-school are pretty much all pass/fail, although you have to pass everything. It's a nice system. As has been demonstrated elsewhere, a pure pass/fail system doesn't have to have a noticeable negative impact on students' performane on exams and the like, and makes for far less stressed students.
When it comes to exams, we tend to have one or two every semester. Once upon a time, they had more exams and other evaluations, thinking that more and smaller would be better than few and larger... but that began to change a while back. This current design, with few but large exams has a number of advantages, not least for students that end up falling behind for various reasons (this is in addition to benefits like being able to write really good comprehensive exams for every course :)).
I've had many strong opinions about the way education is handled in Sweden, on various levels... but in the past few years I've developed a greater understanding for why it is the way it is. I've also got several personal reasons for really appreciating the way eg. my programme is set up, and for the way those in charge work with us students. I had a really rough time of things for a few years, from the last year of highschool on. If I'd been living or studying in another country, I think I'd still have been an unhappy wreck. I don't think I'd have found my way to this path, to the point where I am now... a path and a point I am very very happy with :)
the system here seems designed to adjust for... well, for "life". On every level there seems to be a great deal of awareness... of the goals (eg. train a lot of good doctors and make sure they're happy while they're here), of everyone's roles and identities (eg. students are adults that have their own lives, lives which affect and are affected by uni studies and which must be taken into consideration)...
okay, I'm a little drunk and very very tired so I'll just stop this post right now. thank you for your charitable reading of my post :o :o
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: tania on 21 Sep 2009, 10:12 ---during my first year of uni in guelph we had a small stomach flu epidemic going around campus which was so bad classes were cancelled for weeks and certain sections of residence were quarantined. we made it onto the cbc news too. i was one of the 3 or 4 very first people to come down with this flu which was utterly terrifying as i had absolutely no idea what was going on when i suddenly woke up at 3 in the morning and proceeded to vomit the entire contents of my stomach over the side of my bed for the next several hours. the residence staff has to call a cab to rush me to hospital where a whole bunch of tubes and needles went into my arms because i couldn't walk and in between the vomiting i was collapsing and blacking out a lot. it's the one time in my life where i really thought i was going to die. then of course everyone else got it and i couldn't anymore because i was immune on account of having already had it, but at that point classes were essentially cancelled so i got to defer all my exams and enjoy a couple of weeks off anyway.
anyway it was eventually deduced that the most likely explanation for this was that someone forgot to wash their hands after taking a dump. that's my advice to you, freshmen. wash your hands after you shit. a little bit of soap and water goes a really long way, trust me on this.
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I remember that! I didn't get sick. I don't remember classes being cancelled. I remember they were handing out those surgical masks at the entrances of South (I still have one that I kept, actually) and that the walk-in clinic was basically jam packed with people all day every day for a couple weeks.
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