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My Biggest Regrets From High School

I graduated from high school almost a year ago. Since the pandemic dominated the last semester of my high school career, I haven’t had the time to find closure in the last chapter of my childhood.

Graduation for me was a dismal experience on Zoom. The shutting of my MacBook after the school-wide video call finalized the closing of the last eighteen years of my life.

Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on my high school experience. With my new college friends, we would often compare and contemplate each other’s high schools. Since I’ve returned to my hometown, I like to reminisce about the memories I had there and the regrets I’ve harbored. 

The pandemic tested the strength of friendships that I clung to in high school. Of course, you don’t need to stay friends with all of your high school friends after you graduate, but I can happily and confidently say that I retained 10% of the friendships I had in high school.

Many people didn’t reciprocate the effort to keep in touch with me, which I’m actually happy to remember. These friends were not necessarily “fake.” Just because a friend you once had isn’t still active in your life shouldn’t discount the great memories you made. I don’t feel regretful thinking back to the cafeteria conversations or AP Chemistry FaceTime calls. The connection was absolutely there at the time. These friends were there when I needed them at the time.

It’s completely natural to drift away, move on, and keep the highlights of your relationship. We all only have enough energy to maintain a certain number of friendships as we move into the next chapter of our lives. This solitude allowed me to invest in the people I wanted to keep in my life and focus on my own self-growth.

It’s funny how everyone’s life paths are so different, especially after adding in the X-factor of the pandemic. For the last two decades, almost everyone we knew was attending school, going home to live with their families, and moving through the same major life events that we were: going to prom, getting our driver’s licenses, attending high school sporting events, applying for colleges, studying for grades.

From entering the workforce, to enrolling in trade school , to moving to Hollywood, to taking gap years , to volunteering at a beekeeping farm in Hawaii, to starting viral TikTok accounts, my high school graduating class is exploring a variety of opportunities that I can only follow through social media. 

Now that I’m in college, I’ve also realized how many activities I did just to put on my college application. I grew up thinking that things I did with my time must result in productivity, whether that be a new line of my resume or a side hustle. I wanted to be good at everything I did.

I wish I developed hobbies in high school — things I did not need to monetize or be productive while doing. Every interest I had in high school seemed to land on my extracurricular activities sheet with a string of awards and achievements.

After graduating, I realized that I enjoyed none of these activities. I was chasing the high of winning. Once I placed value on activities dependent on whether I was excelling, the original joy I found in these activities was gone.

Now, I try to be intentional in doing things I enjoy for the fun of it. I try to explore different community groups and interests that I may not be the best at. I’ve explored painting, crocheting, yoga, and baking. I fell in love with journaling, taking long walks with podcasts, and vlogging.

These hobbies allow me to enjoy life as it is and take every moment slowly. It’s taken me until now to realize that it’s impossible to achieve productivity at every moment of every day.

I try to live by the motto: To see the world and to feel. I want to allow myself to feel every emotion, even if it is considered a negative emotion like sadness, heartbreak, sorrow.

All of those things are part of this human experience. Graduating from high school gave me a deeper perspective in appreciating life. 

I cared too much about specific test scores in high school. I lost too many nights of sleep to anxiety about the future. I turned down too many plans for the sake of getting one more practice test in. I paid too much attention to what other people were doing. 

From the time I was a high school freshman , I yearned to get out of my hometown and meet different people. I dreamed of life in college, a life more exciting, stimulating, and dramatic. I set my eyes on starting my life once college started, once I graduated high school, once I could get out of this town.

Now I know: there is no point in waiting to live your life.

Our lives go by so fast. None of us knows how long we have left. Every hour we use is one we never get back.

I wish I appreciated the time that I had left. I wish I spent more time being social rather than being so hard on myself for academics. I wish I said “yes” more.

After this past year, I think we deserve to enjoy life. If you have the opportunity to enjoy something and if someone texts you about going out and spending time with people, take it. The other stuff can wait. What matters the most is the time spent, the memories made, and the friends you love.

Author: Lauren

Lauren is a college student, double majoring in Economics and Psychology.

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10 High School Regrets I Had (Things I Wish I Did)

• by Daniel Friedman
• 7 minute read

Going to high school soon? Don’t make the same mistakes I did in my past. Here are 10 high school regrets I wish I didn’t do!

Before we start, you should note that this is based on personal experiences. You may or may not go through the same things.

Most of these regrets are things that I did NOT do. None of them are things I regret doing. A lot of times in life, it’s the things we missed out on that we regret.

Hopefully you will learn something useful from these high school regrets…

Not Making Better Friends

One of the best quotes I’ve read is “tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.”

What this means: your personality and habits are essentially the sum of your closest friends around you.

If your friends are rude and underachievers, you are likely to be as well. If your friends are kind, caring, and overachievers, you will be like that too.

The point is, I regret not making better friends in high school because friends don’t always last forever, but they shape us into who we’re going to be.

During freshman year, don’t limit yourself to just 1 or 2 friends . Experiment your interests with all different people and stay close to the good ones (you’ll know them when you see them)!

Not Expanding My Circle

Similar to not making better friends, I also regret not expanding my circle of friends.

Networking is an important thing when you’re a little kid, in high school, and as an adult. You never know when you’ll need some help from an old friend.

Instead of sitting at your normal table of friends, challenge yourself to spend one lunch per week sitting with another group of kids you know.

Maybe you talk with them during class, but never get to hang out when you’re not in the middle of a lecture. This is an excellent time to familiarize yourself with those people.

On top of that, try to say hi to everyone you’ve met before as you walk to class or during your breaks. It helps people remember each other easily.

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Not communicating better.

One of the biggest high school regrets I had was not communicating better with friends, but more importantly… family.

In high school, it’s easy to close yourself off , form small circles, and never leave your room. I get it, I was there too.

However, it’s important to speak your mind when you’re not happy about something . The only way to fix the issue is by openly communicating how you feel.

For example, if it bothers you that your parents never knock before coming in, sit down with them for 60 seconds and ask nicely if they can start knocking.

If you bicker with your friends often and end up not talking for a day, start openly communicating about why you’re upset and how you guys can fix the issue.

Avoiding this communication while you’re young can end up leaving long term effects on how you talk to people when you’re older.

Not Doing Extracurricular Activities 

High school isn’t only about getting good grades and doing your homework. There’s more than that to life while you’re a teenager.

Doing extracurricular activities is a great way to improve your high school records on paper while also having fun after school.

There are hundreds of extracurricular activities to choose from between clubs, sports, robotics classes and more!

Not only do they keep you occupied, but they’re also important for getting into college! Don’t have the same regret I did.

Not Gaining More Experiences

Dating, hanging outside with friends, and going to new places are all examples of experiences you can gain during high school.

I regret not gaining more of those harmless experiences, whether they turn out good or bad. Remember, bad experiences are good too. That’s how humans learn from mistakes.

Keep in mind, doing drugs and alcohol is not something you need to knock off as an experience . Of course, people will experiment as teenagers like many of my friends did.

If you have to try it once just to say you did it… fine, but draw the line there.

I sadly lost a friend that was under the influence during high school and I bet she would regret it if she could do it all over again.

Listen to your instincts and you’ll know which experiences are healthy and which ones are dangerous.

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Not focusing on passions.

Whether you have a passion or not, you should never forget to go out of your way to pursue them .

High school is really good at making you forget about the things you love and making you focus only on school or getting a job.

The whole point of life is to be happy. How are you supposed to be happy if you’re not focusing on your favorite passions?

Who knows… maybe one day that passion could turn into a side hustle or a full-time business . As long as you’re actively searching for them, you’re on the right track.

Don’t forget that your passions are also valuable to colleges , so start a club around your favorite things and add it to your portfolio!

Not Joining a Sport

One of my worst high school regrets was not joining a sport. I wish I had the guts to keep trying to get on a sports team.

If you’re the athletic type and are looking forward to joining a sports team, I highly recommend you do everything you can to make it work !

If you’re not super athletic, I would still encourage you to work on your physical fitness while you’re young because it only gets harder from here.

Being part of a sport is one of the best experiences you could have in high school. Your friends become family and it teaches you a lot about discipline and hard work.

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Not going for that girl/guy.

Another thing I regret not doing in high school is going for that girl I was into at the time.

A lot of high school students are scared to start something with their crush because they don’t want to “ruin anything” between them.

My advice: screw that! You’re going to look back at high school and laugh about how serious you took everything.

At the end of the day, starting a new relationship or getting some more practice with someone you like is only going to give you more experience!

Your crush is just as much of a human as you are (probably just as insecure too) so don’t be afraid to tell them how you feel.

And if you get rejected, who cares! You wouldn’t have known they didn’t like you until you asked, right? We all have to learn to deal with rejection anyways (more experience points).

Not Being Myself

In high school it’s easy to try and impress others. All we care about is what other people think of us. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t care about our likes on Insta or how many followers we have.

The truth is, if your friends like you as your fake version, they’re not your real friends. If you’re not even honest with yourself, then who can you be honest with?

Playing this lie only gets worse as you get older. You’ll start buying things you can’t afford and dressing up as someone that’s not you.

I regret not being myself. I think I would’ve made more friends in the long run and had less fear now about who I really am.

One thing that did help me was reducing my time on social media (I know…boring). It’s true though. I highly recommend it.

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Not enjoying high school while it lasted.

My last and one of my biggest high school regrets was not enjoying the high school experience while it lasted!

Look, it’s a very strange few years of your life. You’re going to make friends, lose friends, get wacky grades, try new things, etc.

That doesn’t mean that you won’t have fun! The amount of fun you have is dependent on how much you’re willing to appreciate the good times while you’re still in them .

By no means does this mean that you’re likely to peak in high school, but it does mean that you’ll get opportunities that you may never get again in life.

Seize those moments with every breath and smile your way through these odd 4 years ! That way, you’ll never regret a single thing.

Hopefully these 10 high school regrets have actually taught you something valuable that you can take with you into freshman year. Good luck in high school! I know you’ll do great!

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions leave them down below. Thanks for reading!

Daniel Friedman

Hey, I'm Daniel - The owner of Modern Teen! I love sharing everything I've experienced and learned through my teen and college years. I designed this blog to build a community of young adults from all around the world so we can grow together and share our knowledge! Enjoy and Welcome!

Hi there, Daniel!

I’m striving in the ninth grade right now. ( Not absolutely, positively, sure if I can survive!)

This fascinating article helps me to be extra aware and care about, to explore, enjoy, and improve upon specific things I normally overlook without your subtle reminder.

4# I’m going to try out and experiment with new extra-curricular activities, a big THANKS to you. Up until now, I’ve never taken part in any co-curricular activities because I was just so fixated on improving my grades and didn’t bother to spend time in the real phenomenal world. I’m quite into writing stuff so, may I get some recommended or advised activities within my passion, writing? It’ll truly mean a lot to me.

Have a marvelous day, Mandy

I’m so happy you’ve been finding useful information from some of the posts on Modern Teen… it truly means a lot! Extracurriculars in writing are awesome for finding your passion and for college. I’m not sure what it is exactly that you write about, but you can try out things like blogging, writing stories, notebook collecting, or journaling.

All of those hobbies or clubs (if you choose to turn it into a club) are excellent ways to work on what you love. If you ever have any questions about blogging, feel free to email me as well!

Hope this helps 🙂 – Daniel

A whole lot of thanks, Daniel!

I really appreciate it.

Hi!!! I love reading your blogs I just entered my high school life… during COVID though😭 And I am missing all the fun Reading your blogs makes me feel better Pls write more blogs on high school drama and high school relationships!!

I’m so glad that you enjoy the blog posts! You just made my day 🙂

I’ll definitely look into to writing more posts on those topics… thanks for the input!

Great points! I’m much much older than you and still have these same regrets. One of my biggest (not on your list) was working a job during my high school years. I worked many hours a week, and missed out on so much of the high school activities I would’ve enjoyed. I remember what my high school tennis team coach said to me when I quit the team so I could work and have a car: young man, you have your whole life to work at a job, enjoy your high school years while you have them.

Couldn’t have said it better myself David! Thanks for sharing 🙂

Hi Daniel, I’m from Malaysia and I just started engaging in high school after the pandemic, you tips seen really useful and I hope it will be helpful. I have something to ask, about sports. I’ve tried to go to ever sports audition that happened in my school and most of my teachers told me that I shouldn’t join and I was late at joining without even giving me a chance to join! Tell me what should I do? What is your opinion? How can I enter any sports? From, Izz

Hi Izzy, I’m glad the tips seem useful and I wish you the best of luck in high school. If you already missed the tryouts for sports, sometimes it’s best to speak directly with the coaches and see if they’ll let you join late. Hopefully this helps!

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11 things we wish we would've done before we left high school, before you know it high school is over, and sometimes you can't help but think about what you missed along the way..

Most of us remember high school as the SATs, trying desperately to find a date to the prom, and (finally) graduating next to all your best friends. Although we spent our time there wishing we were out, once it's over some of us are left thinking about what we could've done. So, I asked some college students: what were some of the biggest things you wish you would have done in high school?

1. Try out or stay on a sports team.

"Some sports! Actually would've liked to be part of a team or have been more active in clubs"

-Eunice Woo, freshman Public Health Biology major

"Stayed in a sport"

-Peter Erikson, sophomore Video Game Design major

2. Talked to different people outside of normal friend groups

"I wish I talked to more people from my grade. We're all really friendly with each other now, but in high school, we were super cliquey even if we weren't trying to be"

-Jacqui Napier, sophomore Early Childhood Education major

"I went to a small private school. I wish I'd been kinder to the people everyone else ignored, the people who sat by themselves at lunch. I wish I'd tried better to reach out to them"

-Netanya B, sophomore English Literature major

3. Strayed from trouble

"I wish I had stayed out of trouble. I had some really close calls that could have ruined my life"

-Anonymous, senior Nutrition major

4. Been more confident about our self-image

"I wish I hadn't worried so much about how much I weighed. I wish I hadn't restricted myself from certain foods and wish I hadn't convinced myself that I was worthless because I was 'overweight' according to society. It kept me from being involved with events in school and being social because I was embarrassed of how I looked"

-Emma P, sophomore English major

5. Been more confident in general

"Been more outspoken and less shy"

-Ashlyn Bushey, sophomore Music Education major

6. Jumped into clubs earlier

"Gotten involved in theater earlier. I always regret jumping in in my junior year"

-Erin Mecchi, sophomore Early Grades Education major

7. Gone to more high school events

"I wish I would've done all the stereotypical high school things. Dances, football games, pep rallies, etc."

-Alex Nalevanko, freshman Marketing major

8. Tried out for new opportunities, no matter how much they scare us

"I wish that I was in the musical/plays in high school. I was so shy… I froze and had no voice when I tried out"

-Anonymous, former Communications major

9. Stepped outside the library more often

"Do more fun things! I was always studying so I almost never did anything social or fun!"

-Hally Everett, sophomore Nursing major

10. Spent more time dating ourselves instead of other people

"Stayed single"

-Abigail Hadfield, sophomore Creative Writing major

11. Gotten to know more of their teachers as well as students

"I wish I had gotten to know my teachers more personally, and I wish I cared less about social status so I could have made friends with more kinds of students"

-JV Saddic, junior Computer Science major

In the end, you can't go back to high school. For all current students, whether you're in high school or college, try to experience what you can while you're there. Go out for clubs that you might not like, reach out to people you're scared to talk to, and embrace yourself for who you are in the moment, because before you know it, this stage of your life will already be done.

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Waitlisted for a college class here's what to do, dealing with the inevitable realities of college life..

Course registration at college can be a big hassle and is almost never talked about. Classes you want to take fill up before you get a chance to register. You might change your mind about a class you want to take and must struggle to find another class to fit in the same time period. You also have to make sure no classes clash by time. Like I said, it's a big hassle.

This semester, I was waitlisted for two classes. Most people in this situation, especially first years, freak out because they don't know what to do. Here is what you should do when this happens.

Don't freak out

This is a rule you should continue to follow no matter what you do in life, but is especially helpful in this situation.

Email the professor

Around this time, professors are getting flooded with requests from students wanting to get into full classes. This doesn't mean you shouldn't burden them with your email; it means they are expecting interested students to email them. Send a short, concise message telling them that you are interested in the class and ask if there would be any chance for you to get in.

Attend the first class

Often, the advice professors will give you when they reply to your email is to attend the first class. The first class isn't the most important class in terms of what will be taught. However, attending the first class means you are serious about taking the course and aren't going to give up on it.

Keep attending class

Every student is in the same position as you are. They registered for more classes than they want to take and are "shopping." For the first couple of weeks, you can drop or add classes as you please, which means that classes that were once full will have spaces. If you keep attending class and keep up with assignments, odds are that you will have priority. Professors give preference to people who need the class for a major and then from higher to lower class year (senior to freshman).

Have a backup plan

For two weeks, or until I find out whether I get into my waitlisted class, I will be attending more than the usual number of classes. This is so that if I don't get into my waitlisted class, I won't have a credit shortage and I won't have to fall back in my backup class. Chances are that enough people will drop the class, especially if it is very difficult like computer science, and you will have a chance. In popular classes like art and psychology, odds are you probably won't get in, so prepare for that.

Remember that everything works out at the end

Life is full of surprises. So what if you didn't get into the class you wanted? Your life obviously has something else in store for you. It's your job to make sure you make the best out of what you have.

Navigating the Talking Stage: 21 Essential Questions to Ask for Connection

It's mandatory to have these conversations..

Whether you met your new love interest online , through mutual friends, or another way entirely, you'll definitely want to know what you're getting into. I mean, really, what's the point in entering a relationship with someone if you don't know whether or not you're compatible on a very basic level?

Consider these 21 questions to ask in the talking stage when getting to know that new guy or girl you just started talking to:

1. What do you do for a living?

What someone does for a living can tell a lot about who they are and what they're interested in! Their career reveals a lot more about them than just where they spend their time to make some money.

2. What's your favorite color?

OK, I get it, this seems like something you would ask a Kindergarten class, but I feel like it's always good to know someone's favorite color . You could always send them that Snapchat featuring you in that cute shirt you have that just so happens to be in their favorite color!

3. Do you have any siblings?

This one is actually super important because it's totally true that people grow up with different roles and responsibilities based on where they fall in the order. You can tell a lot about someone just based on this seemingly simple question.

4. What's your favorite television show?

OK, maybe this isn't a super important question, but you have to know ASAP if you can quote Michael Scott or not. If not, he probably isn't the one. Sorry, girl.

5. When is your birthday?

You can then proceed to do the thing that every girl does without admitting it and see how compatible your zodiacs are.

6. What's your biggest goal in life?

If you're like me, you have big goals that you want to reach someday, and you want a man behind you who also has big goals and understands what it's like to chase after a dream. If his biggest goal is to see how quickly he can binge-watch " Grey's Anatomy " on Netflix , you may want to move on.

7. If you had three wishes granted to you by a genie, what would they be?

This is a go-to for an insight into their personality. Based on how they answer, you can tell if they're goofy, serious, or somewhere in between.

8. What's your favorite childhood memory?

For some, this may be a hard question if it involves a family member or friend who has since passed away . For others, it may revolve around a tradition that no longer happens. The answers to this question are almost endless!

9. If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?

We all have parts of our lives and stories that we wish we could change. It's human nature to make mistakes. This question is a little bit more personal but can really build up the trust level.

10. Are you a cat or a dog person?

I mean, duh! If you're a dog person, and he is a cat person, it's not going to work out.

11. Do you believe in a religion or any sort of spiritual power?

Personally, I am a Christian, and as a result, I want to be with someone who shares those same values. I know some people will argue that this question is too much in the talking stage , but why go beyond the talking stage if your personal values will never line up?

12. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Even homebodies have a must visit place on their bucket list !

13. What is your ideal date night?

Hey, if you're going to go for it... go for it!

14. Who was/is your celebrity crush?

For me, it was hands-down Nick Jonas . This is always a fun question to ask!

15. What's a good way to cheer you up if you're having a bad day?

Let's be real, if you put a label on it, you're not going to see your significant other at their best 24/7.

16. Do you have any tattoos?

This can lead to some really good conversations, especially if they have a tattoo that has a lot of meaning to them!

17. Can you describe yourself in three words?

It's always interesting to see if how the person you're talking to views their personal traits lines ups with the vibes you're getting.

18. What makes you the most nervous in life?

This question can go multiple different directions, and it could also be a launching pad for other conversations.

19. What's the best gift you have ever received? 

Admittedly, I have asked this question to friends as well, but it's neat to see what people value.

20. What do you do to relax/have fun?

Work hard, play hard, right?

21. What are your priorities at this phase of your life?

This is always interesting because no matter how compatible your personalities may be, if one of you wants to be serious and the other is looking for something casual, it's just not going to work.

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Challah vs. Easter Bread: A Delicious Dilemma

Is there really such a difference in challah bread or easter bread.

Ever since I could remember, it was a treat to receive Easter Bread made by my grandmother. We would only have it once a year and the wait was excruciating. Now that my grandmother has gotten older, she has stopped baking a lot of her recipes that require a lot of hand usage--her traditional Italian baking means no machines. So for the past few years, I have missed enjoying my Easter Bread.

A few weeks ago, I was given a loaf of bread called Challah (pronounced like holla), and upon my first bite, I realized it tasted just like Easter Bread. It was so delicious that I just had to make some of my own, which I did.

The recipe is as follows:

Ingredients

2 tsp active dry or instant yeast 1 cup lukewarm water 4 to 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup white granulated sugar 2 tsp salt 2 large eggs 1 large egg yolk (reserve the white for the egg wash) 1/4 cup neutral-flavored vegetable oil

Instructions

• Combine yeast and a pinch of sugar in small bowl with the water and stir until you see a frothy layer across the top.
• Whisk together 4 cups of the flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl.
• Make a well in the center of the flour and add in eggs, egg yolk, and oil. Whisk these together to form a slurry, pulling in a little flour from the sides of the bowl.
• Pour the yeast mixture over the egg slurry and mix until difficult to move.
• Turn out the dough onto a floured work surface and knead by hand for about 10 minutes. If the dough seems very sticky, add flour a teaspoon at a time until it feels tacky, but no longer like bubblegum. The dough has finished kneading when it is soft, smooth, and holds a ball-shape.
• Place the dough in an oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and place somewhere warm. Let the dough rise 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Separate the dough into four pieces. Roll each piece of dough into a long rope roughly 1-inch thick and 16 inches long.
• Gather the ropes and squeeze them together at the very top. Braid the pieces in the pattern of over, under, and over again. Pinch the pieces together again at the bottom.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment and lift the loaf on top. Sprinkle the loaf with a little flour and drape it with a clean dishcloth. Place the pan somewhere warm and away from drafts and let it rise until puffed and pillowy, about an hour.
• Heat the oven to 350°F. Whisk the reserved egg white with a tablespoon of water and brush it all over the challah. Be sure to get in the cracks and down the sides of the loaf.
• Slide the challah on its baking sheet into the oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through cooking. The challah is done when it is deeply browned.

I kept wondering how these two breads could be so similar in taste. So I decided to look up a recipe for Easter Bread to make a comparison. The two are almost exactly the same! These recipes are similar because they come from religious backgrounds. The Jewish Challah bread is based on kosher dietary laws. The Christian Easter Bread comes from the Jewish tradition but was modified over time because they did not follow kosher dietary laws.

A recipe for Easter bread is as follows:

2 tsp active dry or instant yeast 2/3 cup milk 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup white granulated sugar 2 tbs butter 2 large eggs 2 tbs melted butter 1 tsp salt

• In a large bowl, combine 1 cup flour, sugar, salt, and yeast; stir well. Combine milk and butter in a small saucepan; heat until milk is warm and butter is softened but not melted.
• Gradually add the milk and butter to the flour mixture; stirring constantly. Add two eggs and 1/2 cup flour; beat well. Add the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring well after each addition. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes.
• Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
• Deflate the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough into two equal size rounds; cover and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll each round into a long roll about 36 inches long and 1 1/2 inches thick. Using the two long pieces of dough, form a loosely braided ring, leaving spaces for the five colored eggs. Seal the ends of the ring together and use your fingers to slide the eggs between the braids of dough.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place loaf on a buttered baking sheet and cover loosely with a damp towel. Place loaf in a warm place and let rise until doubled in bulk, about 45 minutes. Brush risen loaf with melted butter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 30 minutes.

Both of these recipes are really easy to make. While you might need to have a day set aside for this activity, you can do things while the dough is rising or in the oven. After only a few hours, you have a delicious loaf of bread that you made from scratch, so the time and effort is really worth it!

Unlocking Lake People's Secrets: 15 Must-Knows!

There's no other place you'd rather be in the summer..

The people that spend their summers at the lake are a unique group of people.

Whether you grew up going to the lake , have only recently started going, or have only been once or twice, you know it takes a certain kind of person to be a lake person. To the long-time lake people, the lake holds a special place in your heart , no matter how dirty the water may look.

Every year when summer rolls back around, you can't wait to fire up the boat and get back out there. Here is a list of things you can probably identify with as a fellow lake-goer.

A bad day at the lake is still better than a good day not at the lake.

It's your place of escape, where you can leave everything else behind and just enjoy the beautiful summer day. No matter what kind of week you had, being able to come and relax without having to worry about anything else is the best therapy there is. After all, there's nothing better than a day of hanging out in the hot sun, telling old funny stories and listening to your favorite music.

You know the best beaches and coves to go to.

Whether you want to just hang out and float or go walk around on a beach, you know the best spots. These often have to be based on the people you're with, given that some "party coves" can get a little too crazy for little kids on board. I still have vivid memories from when I was six that scared me when I saw the things drunk girls would do for beads.

You have no patience for the guy who can't back his trailer into the water right.

When there's a long line of trucks waiting to dump their boats in the water, there's always that one clueless guy who can't get it right, and takes 5 attempts and holds up the line. No one likes that guy. One time my dad got so fed up with a guy who was taking too long that he actually got out of the car and asked this guy if he could just do it for him. So he got into the guy's car, threw it in reverse, and got it backed in on the first try. True story.

Doing the friendly wave to every boat you pass.

Similar to the "jeep wave," almost everyone waves to other boats passing by. It's just what you do, and is seen as a normal thing by everyone.

The cooler is always packed, mostly with beer.

Alcohol seems to be a big part of the lake experience, but other drinks are squeezed into the room remaining in the cooler for the kids, not to mention the wide assortment of chips and other foods in the snack bag.

Giving the idiot who goes 30 in a "No Wake Zone" a piece of your mind.

There's nothing worse than floating in the water, all settled in and minding your business, when some idiot barrels through. Now your anchor is loose, and you're left jostled by the waves when it was nice and perfectly still before. This annoyance is typically answered by someone yelling some choice words to them that are probably accompanied by a middle finger in the air.

You have no problem with peeing in the water.

It's the lake, and some social expectations are a little different here, if not lowered quite a bit. When you have to go, you just go, and it's no big deal to anyone because they do it too.

You know the frustration of getting your anchor stuck.

The number of anchors you go through as a boat owner is likely a number that can be counted on two hands. Every once in a while, it gets stuck on something on the bottom of the lake, and the only way to fix the problem is to cut the rope, and you have to replace it.

Watching in awe at the bigger, better boats that pass by.

If you're the typical lake-goer, you likely might have an average-sized boat that you're perfectly happy with. However, that doesn't mean you don't stop and stare at the fast boats that loudly speed by, or at the obnoxiously huge yachts that pass.

Knowing any swimsuit that you own with white in it is best left for the pool or the ocean.

You've learned this the hard way, coming back from a day in the water and seeing the flowers on your bathing suit that were once white, are now a nice brownish hue.

The momentary fear for your life as you get launched from the tube.

If the driver knows how to give you a good ride, or just wants to specifically throw you off, you know you're done when you're speeding up and heading straight for a big wave. Suddenly you're airborne, knowing you're about to completely wipe out, and you eat pure wake. Then you get back on and do it all again.

You're able to go to the restaurants by the water wearing minimal clothing.

One of the many nice things about the life at the lake is that everybody cares about everything a little less. Rolling up to the place wearing only your swimsuit, a cover-up, and flip flops, you fit right in. After a long day when you're sunburned, a little buzzed, and hungry, you're served without any hesitation.

Having unexpected problems with your boat.

Every once in a while you're hit with technical difficulties, no matter what type of watercraft you have. This is one of the most annoying setbacks when you're looking forward to just having a carefree day on the water, but it's bound to happen. This is just one of the joys that come along with being a boat owner.

Having a name for your boat unique to you and your life.

One of the many interesting things that make up the lake culture is the fact that many people name their boats. They can range from basic to funny, but they are unique to each and every owner, and often have interesting and clever meanings behind them.

There's no better place you'd rather be in the summer.

Summer is your all-time favorite season, mostly because it's spent at the lake. Whether you're floating in the cool water under the sun, or taking a boat ride as the sun sets, you don't have a care in the world at that moment . The people that don't understand have probably never experienced it, but it's what keeps you coming back every year.

Top 10 Reasons My School Rocks!

Why i chose a small school over a big university..

I was asked so many times why I wanted to go to a small school when a big university is so much better. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a big university is great but I absolutely love going to a small school. I know that I miss out on big sporting events and having people actually know where it is. I can't even count how many times I've been asked where it is and I know they won't know so I just say "somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin ." But, I get to know most people at my school and I know my professors very well. Not to mention, being able to walk to the other side of campus in 5 minutes at a casual walking pace. I am so happy I made the decision to go to school where I did. I love my school and these are just a few reasons why.

1. My school is incredibly unique.

There are so many different kinds of people that each bring something really special to contribute to the school which makes it so unique.

2. I am not just a number at my school.

I am a student that my professors know about and I like knowing that my professors can watch my progress.

3. I feel like I am contributing something to the community.

I like feeling like I can make a difference on my campus.

4. I really do feel like it is my home away from home.

It isn't just my school. It is absolutely my home away from home. I feel so comfortable there and it was as hard of an adjustment as I had thought it would be.

5. My professors know me and I feel that I can easily communicate with them.

I feel like they will do anything to help students succeed. I can always go to my professors. I like knowing that I have someone looking out for me.

6. The incredible people I've met

The people I have met at my school, even after my first year, have made such a huge impact on me. I know that these are people that I will stay friends with long after college is done.

7. Opportunities

My school offers so many different opportunities to get involved in things around campus. Even writing for the Odyssey was an opportunity offered to me by my school and I decided to challenge myself by writing an article. Turns out, I really enjoy writing. I might not have had this opportunity at a bigger school.

8. Students want to learn

I feel as though I am not just learning inside the classroom at my school. I am learning outside the classroom to from my fellow classmates who want to engage about the things we have learned.

9. Ability to join a sorority and have a house full of people I know I can talk to anytime I need to

I wasn't sure if being in a sorority was something I was interested in but when I met the amazing people in the sorority and how inclusive it was, I knew that it was going to be a good thing for me. The people I've met in my sorority have been so amazing.

10. I have figured out how I learn best because my school offers so many different ways of learning.

Because of the smaller class sizes, there is more flexibility in the way the class is taught. This was helpful because I was able to try out different ways of learning and figure out which way I learn best.

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Why Did I Say That? Dealing With Regret In High School

I regret my mean words . I still remember feeling nausea bubble inside of me as I sat in my high school’s journalism classroom trying to get a grasp on all of the tasks I needed to complete by the end of the week. From English essays about books I barely had time to read to extracurricular activities to college applications, the work on my plate was overwhelming.

With my palms moist and forehead clammy, I knew I needed to take a walk and breathe. I didn’t know where, but I just knew I needed to go.

When I walked back into the room, an ill-timed and unwarranted quip from a friend hit me. The comment itself wasn’t anything remarkable, nothing especially creative or ruthless.

Any other day, I would have kept a clear head and brushed it off. But it wasn’t the day for grace or a clear head. Before I knew it, a bitter string of mean words shot from my lips as I gathered my stuff and walked out.

Immediately, I knew that I had rattled a relationship I valued. And I regretted it.

Typically, in high school we’re fed narratives that tell us to fit neatly into cookie cutter stereotypes, make us expect that high school is going to be the best time of our life, or remind us that we need to have everything figured out. We’re not told, however, that high school can be stressful enough  to push anyone to frustrated outbursts or upsetting and complicated situations.

An Opportunity for Growth

But that’s the thing about high school. It’s a time us to experience ourselves in our greatest and our worst moments. It’s a time for us to be inexplicably emotional or painfully ambivalent. For me, high school was a time and space to start figuring things out about the world, about the people I surround myself with and, most importantly, about myself.

During the inevitable encounters with petty meanness, I grew more emotionally intelligent and learned about how I react to stress . I owe that largely to my mom. On days when I came home furious, I would start debriefing the events. Oftentimes, my stories would come out muddled and confusing. Luckily, my mom offered two significant things: a reminder that I wasn’t crazy and the gift of perspective.

In the moment, high school engulfs you. Dating drama, academic stress, and a myriad of other things cloud your vision. It feels like people keep adding more and more onto your plate.

Sometimes, you drop the ball, you hurt, and you get hurt. But that’s when we learn from our mistakes.

We learn how to deal with the consequences. And hopefully we do better the next time. We make horrible mistakes in the midst of our haphazard attempts at self-discovery. But that has to be okay because the beauty lies in the chance to do it again and do it better. Sometimes high school sucks, but often it sucks so the rest of life doesn’t have to. To me, that’s worth more than a little nausea.

Jesse Sparks is a junior in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University studying Journalism and African American Studies. He can be contacted at @JesseASparks on Twitter.

Four of My Biggest Regrets About High School

Since I just graduated a few days ago, I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic about high school. I’ve been reminiscing on the good old days of tennis season, dance rehearsal, and debate practice. But although there were good times, there were definitely also some bad times. Here’s what I regret about my experience.

Not getting my driver’s license on time

This may seem like a pretty silly and minor regret, but I really wish I had gotten my driver’s license as soon as I turned sixteen. I would have had so much more freedom to drive to any place I wanted to go. Although driver’s ed may seem like a lot of work, just get it done. You’ll be grateful. The reward of mobility is so worth it. And with all of the stress of SATs, APs, and homework, sometimes it’s nice to take a drive by yourself. It can be surprisingly relaxing.

Judging people based on first impressions

Freshman year, I formed pretty strong opinions about everyone in my class, which was a huge mistake. As I got to know people, I discovered that they were completely different from who I thought they were. Everyone turned out to be so much more awesome than I thought, so I was angry that I had wasted so much time judging people from afar rather than really getting to know them. A good rule of thumb is to be nice and friendly to everyone you meet, instead of assuming that you won’t like them because of various superficial reasons.

Doing homework inefficiently

You don’t need to do every bit of homework your teachers assign you. Let me repeat: You DON’T need to do every bit of homework your teachers assign you. This was the biggest academic mistake I made freshman and sophomore year. I spent hours thoroughly annotating textbook chapters and novels that I didn’t really need to know that well, while neglecting math sheets that were vastly more important.

Figure out what your priorities are and make sure to put more effort and energy into certain types of work. Don’t waste your time going over concepts you already know or won’t be tested on.

Spending money rather than saving

Before the whole application process started, college (and financial independence) seemed to be in the distant future. Little did I know that in just a few, short years, I would be frantically trying to save money in order to make up for so much mindless spending on things like clothes and makeup.

College is closer than you think and when it rolls around, you’ll need some money of your own. Don’t instantly spend birthday and Christmas money. And if you do, try to only buy things that you really, really need and think you will get good, long-term use out of.

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             High school is an experience memorable for a lifetime, only if it is made memorable. One thing I regret about high school is not having enough fun, and truly savoring my youth. The constant constraint of freedom was another nagging issue. Maybe I should have embraced a few extra curricular activities just to spend time with friends. This year in college, I am taking up something daring and new. This time no regrets slip by me and I hope that I can compensate in college with my newly gained freedoms.              In addition to learning, and working, I will make a better effort at having fun. This includes girls, parties, and taking advantage of my new "college age". When I grow up and my children ask me, "Daddy, what was college like?"; I refuse to disappoint them with another average reply. Sure, college is all about majoring in a subject that will eventually take over your social life, as youth begins to decline, but it should be more than that. It has everything high school offered, except no parents, and everyone is more or less on the same level of maturity (as adults).              Having fun is something that never gets old and depending on how it is done, it can be very daring (nothing wild though). I need to seize the opportunity of students being away from his or her parents for the first time in their lives. This type of opportunity is once in a lifetime. Reflecting on my high school years, maybe I will have the courage to ask a couple girls out, or get off my lazy bum and join a futurity. One thing is for sure, if I want a social life other than work, and a strictly academic schedule. I will need to get involved with the local campus community.              In high school, I never really participated in anything extracurricular, except for a couple of sports. College seeks to provide sporting prospects to individuals who desire a career in professional sports. That does not fit into my purpose for attending college, lea...

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5 Regrets These Students Had from High School

Madeleine Karydes

Lead admissions expert, table of contents.

• “What I would tell my younger self is…”
• “I would do my best to convince myself…”
• “Although this isn’t completely academic…”
• “Would tell my younger self to…”
• “I am an eternal student…”
• “Wish I had taken some time…”

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Given a year of massive change , it’s easy to look back and wish we could start over. “Hindsight is 20/20,” as the saying goes – a sentiment never more apt than now. And for you, the next generation of high school students, facing a major junction in your lives? I can only imagine that feeling is compounded. 

Wondering what can we do about it? I interviewed a range of thoughtful, reflective individuals to see what they wish they had known before leaving high school. 

“What I would tell my younger self is…”

• Student: TK
• State: California
• HS Grad Year: 1986
• College/Higher Ed: San Diego State University
• Subject(s): English

“What I would tell my younger self is to be more patient. Time becomes elastic the older you get and the smallest moments become some of the sweetest. No rushing necessary… [laugh] I sound ancient.”

“I would do my best to convince myself…”

• Student: ZB
• HS Grad Year: 2013
• College/Higher Ed: University of California, Berkeley
• Subject(s): Humanities, English

“I would do my best to convince myself to approach interdisciplinary studies with a more open mind. At the time, it feels like a singular focus on your projected career path is the most likely to make you happy. In reality, all the old cliches about life never going as planned are spot on, and you’re likely to land in a field that’s not as straightforward as you imagine!”

“Although this isn’t completely academic…”

• Student: AL
• Subject(s): Humanities

“Although this isn’t completely academic, I wish I had practiced more vulnerability in high school. I know that that is the LAST thing we all wanted to do as high schoolers, but I graduated with high levels of anxiety and very few friends because I didn’t feel able to confide in anyone or let them in. I wonder how my academic life might have felt more balanced, and how I might have learned more from teachers and my peers, if I had been comfortable asking questions and asking for help.”

“Would tell my younger self to…”

• Student: AK
• HS Grad Year: 1980
• College/Higher Ed: Yes, some
• Subject(s): Survival

“I would tell my younger self to slow down and be yourself. Life moves at breakneck speed all by itself, no need to help it along. Reach beyond what you think is possible, and try the unachievable. You just might prove yourself wrong.”

“I am an eternal student…”

• Student: EK
• HS Grad Year: 2012
• College/Higher Ed: University of California, San Diego; Reed College MALS Graduate Program

Subject(s): BA in General linguistics with minors in Theater and Literature; the MALS program is by default interdisciplinary, I’ve been focusing on language and literature courses.

“I am an eternal student, wandering from school to school. I do wish I had a little bit more of a plan, because I have a tendency to just let the cards fall as they will, but so far that has served me really well. While I do not have a solid idea of my career path past Reed, but as previously mentioned, that’s pretty par for the course.”

“Wish I had taken some time…”

• Student: Madeleine (author of this article; hello again!)
• HS Grad Year: 2014

“I wish I had taken some time to learn coding. True, I don’t know if I would have liked it, or been good at it, but I only realized that it was even an option after getting to college. I wish I’d explored different career paths and what skills I would need to hit the ground running.”

In all, I hope these small moments of wisdom help you find your way. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that it’s an uncertain time. And I can’t tell you that everything will be okay. In fact, we probably all have a few high school regrets, no matter how enthusiastic we are. What I am here to tell you is that you can always learn from your past missteps, and use those experiences as context for how you want to shape your future.

Thank you to each of the interviewees for sharing their knowledge and being open with their personal high school regrets, so that we may all continue to grow together. If you’ll allow me one final cliche, a rising tide lifts all boats; so let’s decide how we want our future to look.

Final thoughts

If you feel that extra guidance would help you follow your best future path, a college counselor is a great option to consider. If you’re looking for continued advice on how to make the most of your time and avoid high school regrets, reach out now!

Overall, I can say from personal experience that our counselor network is full of high-achieving, encouraging mentors who will push you forward. Empowerly will match you to a counselor that fits your goals and style to make sure you’re on the right track. In fact, the sooner you start, the more high school regrets you can head off from the beginning. Click the button below to talk to us about options today. 

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Advanced Essay #3: Regret and miscellaneous emotions.

The things that make people who they are can be very complicated, being built from many experiences and events. People like to say things about how the past is just the past and it doesn't affect them now, or about how they do not have any regrets. Regrets are a necessary part of becoming a better person. The regrets and events of our life are what make us, us. We wouldn't be the same person if we lived in a vacuum with no outside forces acting upon it. We are based on events and those events define who we are. How we react to trauma, how we choose to stand once we fall make us who we are, and the idea that events in your life don't affect who you are as a person is incredibly naive. Think about how childhood traumas still affect people well into adulthood. The idea of having no regrets is the ideal, but God only knows I have regrets. I would be a completely different person if I went to a different high school or elementary school. Even the little things shape who I am as a person like whether or not I am friends with someone.

There are many moments I regret, believe me. One regretful memory that stands out is my first girlfriend all the way back in 5th grade. As with all 5th grade romances, it was the end all be all of human creation, we were destined for each other, clearly the universe served no other purpose than to put us together that fateful class. We were disgusting, braces filled, balls of pre- pubescence , and man was it vile looking back. In the moment it was pretty good, but the standards weren’t that high. I took this girl out on our first date and we went to dinner, then a movie, a classic, nothing could go wrong. I was wrong about that. We first went to dinner with a parental escort, which was as painfully awkward as it sounds. After our meal had arrived, I devoured it with extreme incompetence. How do you improperly eat one may ask? I am not exactly sure myself, but I am certain that I was missing the prime objective of landing food in my mouth. I then proceeded into the bathroom and spent way too much time in there defiling it. We then went to the movie, we watched some romantic comedy with Channing Tatum. Several times during the movie I tried to slide my hand over her shoulder with the classic yawn technique, and boy that didn’t work. We eventually took a very awkward car ride home, I spent the whole time wallowing in my failure and awkwardness. Getting out of the car and entering my house was such sweet relief. I thought I was gonna regret that day for the rest of my life because of how awkward I was. I did end up regretting that evening in many ways after, but not because of how I acted, but because who I was with. The girl I was with turned out to be crazy, and not in the way that's manageable or funny. She thought that the Earth was 6000 years old, that Alaska was a Country,  and that evolution wasn’t real. Regret never works out the way you think it will.

Last year in World History we learned a lot about various religions and faiths, we read texts from beliefs. This quote stood out to me, even looking back a year later. “And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.” -Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha  The author is very good at describing how the bad and good make up people, and how regrets and bad emotions are necessary. We feel all these emotions and they make us who we are. Regret is an important part of our lives. This quote opts for a ying and yang style where you need both light and dark, good and bad. We need both to not only survive, but to thrive. In most high schools it is becoming a running joke how much you regret who you were in middle school, or even as a freshman. We acknowledge our regret in a healthy comedic way. We understand regret is important in this way, we know things were bad and that things are getting better.

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Essay on Biggest Regret In Life

Students are often asked to write an essay on Biggest Regret In Life in their schools and colleges. And if you’re also looking for the same, we have created 100-word, 250-word, and 500-word essays on the topic.

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100 Words Essay on Biggest Regret In Life

Understanding regret.

Regret is a sad feeling we get when we think we made a wrong choice. It’s like wishing we could go back in time and do things differently. The biggest regret in life can vary from person to person.

Examples of Regret

For some, the biggest regret could be not studying hard in school. They might wish they had tried harder to get better grades. Others may regret not saying ‘I love you’ to someone special. These regrets can make us feel sad, but they also teach us valuable lessons.

Learning from Regret

Regret can be painful, but it can also help us grow. It teaches us to make better choices in the future. So, instead of feeling sad about our regrets, we should try to learn from them.

Living Without Regret

The best way to live without regret is to make good choices. Think about what you want, and work hard to achieve it. This way, you won’t have any regrets in the future. Remember, it’s your life, and only you can make it regret-free.

250 Words Essay on Biggest Regret In Life

Regret is a feeling of sadness or disappointment over something that has happened or been done, especially when it involves a loss or a missed opportunity. It is a common human emotion that everyone experiences at different times and for different reasons.

The Biggest Regret in Life

The biggest regret in life varies from person to person. For some, it could be a missed chance to study at a dream school. For others, it might be a lost opportunity to say the right words at the right time. This regret often leaves a lasting impact on our lives, shaping our future decisions and actions.

Living with Regret

Living with regret can be tough. It can make us feel stuck in the past and prevent us from moving forward. It’s like carrying a heavy bag that slows us down. It can also affect our self-esteem and make us doubt our abilities.

Despite the pain, regret can also be a good teacher. It can help us learn from our mistakes and make better choices in the future. It can guide us to avoid the same pitfalls and help us grow as individuals.

Overcoming Regret

Overcoming regret is all about accepting the past and learning to let go. It’s important to remember that everyone makes mistakes and it’s okay. The key is to not let regret stop us from enjoying the present or fearing the future. Instead, use it as a stepping stone to become better and stronger.

In conclusion, the biggest regret in life can be a painful experience, but it can also be a valuable lesson. It’s all about how we choose to handle it.

500 Words Essay on Biggest Regret In Life

What is regret.

Regret is a feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over something that has happened or been done. It’s a feeling we get when we think that our present situation could be better or happier if we had done something different in the past.

Understanding Life’s Biggest Regret

The biggest regret in life can be different for everyone. It can be a missed chance, a wrong choice, or even not saying something when it was important. It’s a heavy feeling that stays with us, reminding us of a path not taken or a choice not made.

The Impact of Regret

Regret can have a strong impact on our lives. It can make us feel sad and stuck. We may keep thinking about the ‘what ifs’ and ‘if onlys’, which can stop us from enjoying the present. It can also lead to feelings of guilt and sadness.

Even though regret can be tough, it can also teach us a lot. It can push us to make better choices in the future. It can make us realize what truly matters to us. In this way, regret can help us grow and become better people.

Letting Go of Regret

Letting go of regret is not always easy, but it’s very important. We need to accept that we can’t change the past. What’s done is done. We should focus on the present and the future. We should remember that everyone makes mistakes and it’s okay. What’s more important is to learn from them and move on.

In the end, the biggest regret in life is a very personal thing. It can be different for everyone. But no matter what it is, it’s important to remember that we can learn from it and let it go. Life is full of ups and downs, and it’s okay to make mistakes. After all, that’s how we learn and grow.

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A History of Moscow in 13 Dishes

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War, hunger, and some of the world’s great doomed social experiments all changed the way that Moscow eats.

Moscow, the European metropolis on Asia’s western flank, has always been a canvas for competing cultures. Its cuisine is no different. The ancient baselines of winter grains, root vegetables, and cabbage acquired scaffolding from both directions: eastern horsemen brought meat on sticks, western craftsmen brought pastries, and courtly French chefs came and drowned it all in cream.

History has a place on the plate here, as well: war, hunger, and some of the world’s great doomed social experiments from Serfdom to Communism to Bandit Capitalism all changed the way that Moscow eats. So in the spirit of all of those grand failures, we—a Russian chef and an American writer—will attempt here to reduce the towering history of this unknowable city to 13 dishes, with some Imperial past but a special emphasis on the more recent decades of culinary paroxysms as Moscow emerged from its Soviet slumber.

Olivier Salad

To visualize the long marriage between French and Russian cuisines, picture Peter the Great, on a diplomatic sojourn to Paris in 1717, a “ stranger to etiquette ”, meeting the 7-year-old boy-king Louis XV and lifting him in the air out of sheer elán. These things were simply not done, and yet, there they were. Peter’s joyful (and often envious) fascination with all things French took hold, among other places, in the kitchen. He brought French chefs back to his palaces, and then the lesser nobility followed suit, and when the first restaurants emerged in Moscow, they also spoke French. The Hermitage Restaurant, which was open from 1864 until history intervened in 1917, had a Francophone Belgian named Lucien Olivier as a chef, and he made a salad that was a perfectly unrestrained combination of French flavors and Russian ingredients: grouse! Veal tongue! Proto-mayonnaise! The ingredients now tend toward the pedestrian—boiled beef, dill pickles, various vegetables all bound with mayonnaise—and it has become a staple of Russian cuisine, especially on New Year’s. And yes, if you’ve ever seen the lonely Ensalada Rusa wilting behind the sneezeguard of a Spanish tapas bar, that is supposed to be a successor to the Olivier. But in Moscow, you should eat Matryoshka ’s version, which is not the original recipe but has some of that imperial richness: crayfish, quail, sturgeon caviar, and remoulade, all under a translucent aspic skirt, for 990₽ ($16).

There’s a type of expression around bottling things—bottled lightning, summer in a jar, etc.—that feels very apt here. What exactly is bottled with vareniye (jam)? A lot more than just fruit. These jams, which tend to be thinner than western varieties—with whole berries or fruit chunks in syrup—are bottled with a lot of Russian identity. There’s the Russian love of countryside. Deep dacha culture of summer cottages and personal orchards. Traditional naturopathy (raspberry vareniye taken with tea will fight fever). And above all, friendship is bottled here— vareniye made from the overabundance of fruit at one’s dacha is the most typical Russian gift, real sharing from real nature, even in the often-cynical heart of Europe’s largest megacity. Visitors who are short on lifelong friendships in Moscow can pick some up fine vareniye at any Lavka Lavka shop (we recommend the delicate young pine cone jam) or, curiously enough, at many Armenian stores.

Borodinsky Bread

The clinical-sounding title of Lev Auerman’s 1935 classic Tekhnologiya Khlebopecheniya ( Bread Baking Technology) doesn’t promise scintillation. But Auerman’s recipe for rye bread changed Russian bread forever. An older legend had it that the bread was baked dark for mourning by a woman widowed in the battle of Borodino in 1812, but the real birth of the bread came from Auerman’s recipes. A modification on sweet, malted Baltic breads, Auerman’s Borodinsky bread was 100% rye and used caraway or anise. The recipe has evolved a bit—today it is 80% rye and 20% wheat high extraction flour and leans more on coriander than caraway. But its flavor profile (sweet, chewy) as well as its characteristic L7 mold —a deep brick of bread—has made it easily identifiable as the traditional, ubiquitous, every-occasion bread of Moscow. You can buy it everywhere, but the Azbuka Vkusa high-end markets have a reliably good sliced version.

Buckwheat Grechka

Look closely at those Russians who have followed their money to live in London, or are vacationing in Cyprus or Antalya. See the slight melancholy that not even cappuccinos or sunshine can erase. It’s not because Russians are gloomy by nature; it’s probably because there is no real grechka outside of Russia and Ukraine, and that is devastating. Buckwheat grain and groats— grechka (or grecha in Saint Petersburg)—are deep in the culture. It’s a wartime memory: May 9 Victory Day celebrations feature military kitchens serving buckwheat like they did at the front. It’s a little slice of Russian history that lies somewhere between oatmeal and couscous. In Moscow, eat it at Dr. Zhivago with milk (180₽/US$2.90) or mushrooms (590₽/US$9.50), and rejoice.

Mimoza Salad

This fantastically expressive egg-and-canned-fish salad is a testament to Soviet ingenuity—it’s the ultimate puzzle to make a drastically limited food chain sparkle—and the universal human thrill of layering foods. The geological creation starts with a base layer of fish, then layers of grated cooked potato, mayonnaise, shredded cheese, grated carrots, sweet onion, diced egg whites and then capped with a brilliant yellow crumble of boiled egg yolk. It sits there on the plate, dazzling like the flowering mimosa tree it is named after. The taste? Well, it’s comfort food. Pick some up to go at any Karavaev Brothers location —the excellent deli chain sells it for 650₽ (US$10.40) a kilo.

It seems odd, almost impossible, to imagine a time in Russia before shashlik. It’s meat on a stick, something that all humans should have had on the menu since at least the time of Prometheus. But shashlik as we know it know—cubes of marinated meat cooked with vegetables over a mangal grill—didn’t really take off in Russia until the early 1900s. And due to a lack of suitable meat in much of the Soviet era (there were no meat cattle herds, only dairy), we’re starting the clock on shashlik in the late Soviet period. Despite its relatively recent (re)appearance, it is now the ubiquitous grill phenomenon of Russia, a welcome ritual of summer.

Much of Russian cuisine has borrowed heavily from Central Asia and further east over the millennia ( pelmeni anyone?), but plov is a striking example of an entire eastern dish making its way directly into Russian households. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and upheaval in many Central Asian Soviet Republics, mass economic migration to Moscow took off in the late 80s and early 90s. Central Asians today are the lifeblood of the Moscow labor force (part of up to 10-12 million Central Asian migrants living in Russia), and plov—rice steamed in stock with meat and vegetables—has jumped from the migrant communities to the homes of Muscovites everywhere. It has developed an unfortunate reputation for being a food that even finicky kids will eat, so there is a lot of harried domestic plov being made. But you can get a fully expressed Uzbek version at Danilovsky Market, online at plov.com , or at Food City—the surf-and-turf Tsukiji of Moscow.

The Big Mac

So many of the difficulties in American-Russian relations come down to one foundational attitude problem: The Americans (that’s half of this writing duo) were incredibly, distressingly smug through the entire fall of the Soviet Union. We mistook Soviet failure for an American victory, and that made all the difference. What does that have to do with a Big Mac? Well, when Russia’s first McDonald’s opened on Pushkinskaya in 1990 and 5000 people turned out to wait in line for the first taste of America, we back home in the states mistook it for culinary and commercial superiority. But there was something more complicated happening: Russians had been denied Western goods for so long and with such force that any outside identity was much-needed oxygen. And the long-term victory, as McDonald’s has continued to thrive in post-Soviet Russia, really belongs to the local franchise, which used higher-quality ingredients than in the U.S. and created a chain that was successful not because of its American identity but because of its Russian modifications. We wouldn’t recommend eating at any McDonald’s, especially not when there is Teremok for your fast-food needs, but having a soda in the original location is one way to sit and ponder the sin of hubris. And to use the free toilet and Wi-Fi.

The crown jewel of Levantine meat preparations, perhaps the single greatest street meat in the world: Shawarma. It first came to Moscow with a shawarma joint across from the Passazh mall, opened in the early 90s by Syrian cooks who dazzled masses with their sizzling, spinning, spiced meat emporium. Lines that stretched into the hundreds of people weren’t uncommon in those heady early days. And even though the original spot closed many years ago, Moscow shawarma only grew from there, mutating into the beast it is today, where you’re likely to find chicken, cabbage, mayo and a thin tomato sauce all combining to make the Levant a distant memory.

Fish Tartare aka Sashimi

One result of the aforementioned American smugness is that the West seemed surprised at how rapidly 1990s Russia assimilated some of the most hardcore capitalist traits, including but not limited to conspicuous consumerism. Moscow’s new elite was very, very good at that. What could be more conspicuous that recreating a restrained, exclusive seafood cuisine from Japan in the chaotic, landlocked megacity of Moscow? The very improbability of high-end sushi and sashimi in Moscow fueled much of its allure, and even though the trends have moved on from sushi, you can still tell the emotional attachment that the oligarch class has to those formative wastes of money. Sumosan restaurant started in Moscow back in 1997 and has since expanded to Monte Carlo and Londongrad , where they serve a dish that they call Fish Tartare, among others, in their restaurants and through their private jet catering service.

Blue Cheese roll

If the early elite sushi restaurants in Moscow were the frivolous edge of a food phenomenon, then Yakitoriya , a chain which started in the late 1990s, democratized it with affordable sushi rolls geared to local tastes. The Blue Cheese Roll, available now on their menu, seems like the apex (or nadir) of the Russianized roll: salmon, smoked eel, cucumber, cream cheese, Blue Cheese sauce. It might not be Jiro’s dream, but a true Russian middle class, one that can work honestly, earn meaningful salaries, and have a freaky sushi roll at the end of the week just like the rest of us—that’s something worthing dreaming for. Blue Cheese Roll, Yakitoriya, 417₽ (US$6.70)

If you’re American, have you ever wondered why tacos took over middle America but sopes remain virtually unknown? It’s curious how a country can assimilate some foods from their neighbors and but remain blissfully ignorant of others. That may explain what took place two years ago in Moscow, when the city seemingly discovered, as if for the first time, the bagged awesomeness that is khinkali , a soup dumpling from Russia’s southern neighbor Georgia. It became very trendy very quickly, and khinkali joints sprouted across Moscow like griby after a rain. But it wasn’t just that dish: what they were serving was a bit of the imagined southern, sybaritic lifestyle of the Caucasus, as promised in restaurant names like Est’ Khinkali Pit Vino ( Eat Khinkali Drink Wine ). Your best bets are at the stately Sakhli , around 100₽ (US$1.60) per soft, fulsome dumpling, or the more modernized Kafe Khinkalnaya on Neglinnaya Street , 100₽ (US$0.80) a dumpling.

We have named burrata—yes, that Italian alchemy of cheese and cream—the Perfect Dish of Moscow 2018, if only because it is the Dish of the Moment, ready to be enjoyed at the height of its faddishness now, and equally ready to be replaced when the city decides to move on. Read Anna Maslovskaya’s masterful breakdown of why—and where—to eat burrata in Moscow.

Top image: Olivier salad with chicken. Photo by: Kvector /Shutterstock

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