So, I have no idea why I'm doing this but I felt that it would be fun to compile a list of everything I've dissected over the years. Oh the "fun" that we biology majors have. Haha.
8th Grade:
Watched my science teacher dissect a fetal pig
9th Grade:
Dissected a fetal pig pretty much by myself. The girls in my group wouldn't touch it. We got the perfect pig though. Other groups got hairy, oozy piggies and that was ever so gross.
10th Grade:
Didn't dissect anything but my hand in chemistry lab. Shattered a glass tube right in to my palm. It was the first lab of the year. Great way to start things. Got me out of PE for a while. I do believe that was the only time my chemistry teacher was nice to me. Curse her.
11th Grade:
Dissected a cow eye and a sheep heart for AP Biology. Those were probably my favorite ones. Cow's eyes are gigantic.
12th Grade:
I don't think we did any dissections but I did have to job shadow 3 people in fields that I found interesting. I chose a podiatrist, an orthopedic surgeon and a maxiofacial surgeon. At the podiatrist's office I watched him remove ingrown toenail after ingrown toenail. One little 3 year old girl had to be held down by 2 nurses and her mother because she was so afraid of needles they couldn't numb her for the procedure. :( I had to leave for that one. I couldn't stand to hear her scream. At the orthopedic surgeon's office I got to see way more old people butts than I wanted because he was doing post-op check ups on their hip replacements. At the maxiofacial surgeon's office I watched him remove wisdom teeth and heard the teeth crunching out of the jaw bone. I had just gone to the dentist that morning and was still terribly numb from the worst cavity filling experience I've ever had. Not a happy day.
Freshman Year of College:
Made our own yogurt and spliced a glow gene from bacteria in to the DNA of bacteria and it made them glow. No dissections though.
Sophomore Year of College:
No dissections. Just trying to get all my credits done for my Associates.
Junior Year of College:
Dissected a black and white rat we named Oreo. Again, my lab partners wouldn't touch it so I did the whole thing. We dissected a starfish that I seriously couldn't handle. I didn't think it would be gross but oh my goodness I could barely bring myself to touch it. I'm not a fan of things that come from the sea unless they're marine mammals.
Senior Year of College:
So far just a lamprey which is another disgusting thing from the sea. I just dissected it yesterday and it cut like soft string cheese. I'm glad I could ruin that food for all of you. But in this same class the docket is full of dissections. Here's the list: salamander, rat, sheep heart, dogfish (a kind of shark), sheep kidney, and sheep brain. Oh and we have to examine cadavers that another class will be dissection. NOT excited for that. I thought I could get through my whole college experience without having to do cadavers but they got me my last semester. :(
For those of you that are not biology majors I hope you've enjoyed this extensive list of my schooling experiences. I decided not to bore you with the labs that we had to draw phylogenies or draw things in jars, or sticking things in tubes and put them in machines and such. Biology: Not for those that get grossed out easily. And I have to let you all know I cut myself on a microscope the first or second week of class. Leave it to me to find the one sharp corner on a microscope. I definitely deserve a Bachelor's in Biology. Ha
I'm out.
Whit
2 comments:
Lol some of those are nasty. I've worked with cadavers though. It's not too bad. It's actually pretty interesting!
the cow eye sounds SICK. bryan took that dissection class and said it wasn't that great. but oh do they dissect in med school. EVERYTHING. and then put it back together and skin it. and more gross stuff. i ery sternly warned him to NEVER tell me details about his human dissections. that is disgusting.
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