This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at BC chapter.

It’s a Thursday night, you head to Lower, and are more than disappointed that tonight’s special is “Roasted Cornish Game Hen with North African Spices.” What does that even mean?

You decide to cook for yourself, beyond excited to try your hand at a new recipe.

You go to the grocery store and are determined to get the most bang for your buck. These ingredients look okay, right?

After unpacking your groceries, it is time to start preparing your first dish. Comfort food anyone?

You remember you have an assignment due tomorrow, briefly consider abandoning your culinary adventure, but decide cooking trumps academics.

You taste your dish and decide it needs more salt… BAM!

Everything is going according to plan, so you call up your friends and invite them over for dinner.

While you wait for your friends to arrive, you decide to try out a new drink recipe, because let’s be honest… friends make the best guinea pigs. They seriously will drink anything.

Dinner is served and you hope your friends will take a bite and react like this:

But it is probably more likely they will be like this:

And all you can do is apologize:

Hey, there’s always dessert, right? And who doesn’t love a good dessert?

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