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I knew that my grandparents were awesome, but I didn't think that they were this awesome!!!  I called them up last week because I knew that they wanted to come with me when I took my college tour up at RISD--Rhode Island School of Design.  So, when I brought up the request, instead of telling me a date, they invited me to dinner.  This wasn't abnormal.  I frequently attend dinners with my grandparents at cooler and hipper restaurants than I ever go to with my parents or my friends.  They are the essence of cool.  So, of course, I wasn't shocked when they decided on the Japanese restaurant EN downtown in Soho.  It was a beautifully decorated restaurant with incredible food.  We started off with the most unique tofu dish engorged in soy milk and went on to eat thin slices of sashimi, grain and seaweed salad, fried squid (but not calamari), vegetable tempura, and deep fried steak.  The deep fried steak really did it for me.  I have been a vegetarian for the past four years and now, eating meat, is like fireworks in my mouth.  The decor was really zen and cool and every time a new party would walk into the restaurant, all of the waiters would shout some kind greeting that I couldn't understand because it was in Japanese.  Anyways, so after they invite me, they tell me the best news of the phone call.  They are inviting me to a dinner with the President of RISD and our good family friend, Hannah.  Hannah is a graduate of RISD so the President and Hannah know each other.  I almost collapsed.  You know those really cheezy games that people play at lame parties?  The ones when somebody asks you if you could invite any person or people in the world to dinner, who would you invite?  Let me tell you, this was my perfect dinner.  Over seaweed and fried steak, I talked with, in my opinion, four of the greatest creative thinkers of our generation.  John, the President, is a revolutionary thinker and after sitting with him and hearing him talk, I know that I want to apply to RISD.   It was amazing!!  So now, I am sitting on my bed, kind of in a daze.  I can't believe I actually was at that dinner.