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"Guys - it&amp;#039;s a miracle. I can cook!  And, it wasn&amp;#039;t terrible, my roommates actually really liked it! Okay, it more like they were raving about it, but I&amp;#039;m not going to let that get to my head. So I&amp;#039;ve never really cooked dinner for myself, and especially not for other people (I know, I know. Thanks mom!) so when I found out that it was my turn to make dinner for my hall-mates, I sort of freaked out. There are some vegetarians, some people who don&amp;#039;t eat red meat but eat chicken - I didn&amp;#039;t know how I was going to make a meal that was okay for everybody! Then, it came to me. What&amp;#039;s the easiest thing to make since cereal? Mac&amp;#039;n&amp;#039;Cheese! I nearly sprinted to the little grocery store for the little blue boxes of Kraft that I based my childhood around, but I couldn&amp;#039;t find any! I finally asked the store manager and found out that they don&amp;#039;t carry Kraft, or any kind of mac and cheese! There were 40 minutes until the rest of my friends got out of class, and I now had nothing to make. I sat down at my computer after I got back to my dorm and went on some cooking websites. Nothing looked easy or appealing. After thinking about mac and cheese all evening, it was all that I wanted. I then saw a recipe for the &amp;quot;BEST MACARONI AND CHEESE&amp;quot;, and up popped something that looked so easy and delicious I had to do it!  Half an hour later - after my pasta had spilled over the top of the pot, I had this.  I had no idea how it was going to taste, or if my roommates were going to be like &amp;quot;Mmm it&amp;#039;s great&amp;quot; and then look at each other behind my back as they spit it out, but I had no other choice. I put it in the oven for 20 minutes, and when my hall-mates got back from class, we sat down to eat.  &amp;quot;This is so good!&amp;quot; they all said to me as they devoured my meal. I hadn&amp;#039;t been as happy as that in a while. I had made something that people were eating, and it was good! They were enjoying themselves! This must be what my mom feels when she makes something we all love it. I would hate to think about how she would feel if we didn&amp;#039;t like it (which, unfortunately, has happened) - I know I would be crushed. Let&amp;#039;s hope that I can make dishes that compete with this one in the future! xox Kels "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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