21 Aug 2013

I have only ten minutes to type this.

Would have to say, my course is getting more interesting as I get to have more hands on experiences with DEAD animals. At least I get to do dissections and have some contact with animals to learn about them. Certain things I do, are pretty gross. There are times where I wish I didn't have to do the dissection, cause I was too afraid to puncture that shit and we wouldn't have a spare to work with.. yeah. That kinda sucks, really. I happen to be sitting at the last bench, where we only have 2 pairs of people instead of the usual 4 pairs. Which means we actually do get spare specimen to work with. I am actually beaming on the inside to this advantage. Just like the week before, we had to bust open a land snail and sea snail to look for their tongue. As you know how mushy they are, smashing them carefully was almost impossible. I smashed 2 snails on my own and I found nothing. My lab partner smashed another 2, and couldn't find anything. By then, we already used up our spare specimen.. damnit. So we could only guess and pretend that we managed to pull them tongues out and view them under the microscope.

I personally think that I tend to get pretty lazy when it comes to lab sessions. I would do whatever that is necessary in the fastest possible, just so I can leave lab early. I used to be the first few to leave lab the earliest. I then realise, by being the last person to leave the lab, I can have the demonstrators as well as the lecture's FULL ATTENTION and ask whatever I wanted to ask. Also, I get so much spare time to dissect more stuff. This week, we had to dissect a fish, and dig out it's guts. I was so afraid that I would smash it's insides and find nothing just like the previous week. Which is worse, cause we didn't have any spare fishes to dissect this week. :X

Hrmm.. not sure if only 4 demonstrators and 1 lecturer in the lab would help out much, cause I am clueless as heck most of the time and they are usually busy teaching other clueless kids all over the lab. :( One gross thing that we had in the lab today, was deskinned head of a dog, two to three sheeps and pigs. Last week, we also dissected dead starfish. I got to dissect an extra sea urchin by myself LOL.

9 minutes is up. I am still not done blabbing about my awesome lab.
I was really depressed that I was one mark away from a distiction for a similar unit to this last semester. This unit is actually much more difficult compared to the previous one. It pretty much is the continuation of that unit, where we put body parts to all the animals that we learned last semester.

Times up.

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