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enismirdalOh, so funny!
We were doing a practical on oxygen consumption of shrimps (which, naturally, is of Great Universal Importance). It was basically a matter of watching a shrimp sitting in a syringe for 2 hours and taking samples of its water ever hour and measuring the oxygen content.
Trouble is, we (and half the rest of the class) read, "Each group should take one of each type of shrimp," as, "Each group should take one type of shrimp." So we got ourselves a juvenile shrimp, sat it in the syringe, and were all ready to go about an hour early. It was then that the organiser realised what had happened.
He gave us a Look like the world was about to end, and acted as if it really was the death of science as we know it. "But you have done only one type of shrimp! You must get the figures, please will you get the figures, because you need the figures to draw the graph!" He looked quite crushed, the poor man.
Naturally, we already had a full set of figures, because we'd swapped with other groups who had also done one (of a different) type of shrimp. So we were fine. Especially as I've been to every practical this year, and you only need to go to 80% of them to get the 5% of your final mark that comes from practicals.
I got back to my room and fell face down on the bed laughing.
Still no sign of carrots.
As a result of finishing early and taking it easy in the practical, my QB is ready nearly 3 hours early, so I can hand it in and drink coffee and eat bagels until 6pm insead! Yay!
We were doing a practical on oxygen consumption of shrimps (which, naturally, is of Great Universal Importance). It was basically a matter of watching a shrimp sitting in a syringe for 2 hours and taking samples of its water ever hour and measuring the oxygen content.
Trouble is, we (and half the rest of the class) read, "Each group should take one of each type of shrimp," as, "Each group should take one type of shrimp." So we got ourselves a juvenile shrimp, sat it in the syringe, and were all ready to go about an hour early. It was then that the organiser realised what had happened.
He gave us a Look like the world was about to end, and acted as if it really was the death of science as we know it. "But you have done only one type of shrimp! You must get the figures, please will you get the figures, because you need the figures to draw the graph!" He looked quite crushed, the poor man.
Naturally, we already had a full set of figures, because we'd swapped with other groups who had also done one (of a different) type of shrimp. So we were fine. Especially as I've been to every practical this year, and you only need to go to 80% of them to get the 5% of your final mark that comes from practicals.
I got back to my room and fell face down on the bed laughing.
Still no sign of carrots.
As a result of finishing early and taking it easy in the practical, my QB is ready nearly 3 hours early, so I can hand it in and drink coffee and eat bagels until 6pm insead! Yay!
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Date: 12 May 2004 14:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 May 2004 15:36 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 May 2004 15:51 (UTC)And how many did you do?
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Date: 12 May 2004 15:58 (UTC)took them back to pem and ate icecream!