When I was going to live in an apartment for the first time, one of my friends said, "you'll be fine. It's easy to cook. You took orgo lab! If you can do orgo lab, you'll be fine for cooking. Boiling stuff is just like refluxing..."
Well, I was pretty worried, as I didn't do so well in orgo lab first semester. Nonetheless, I am much better a cook than orgo lab would lead you to believe, or at least people tell me so.
-RA