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- Subject: Freshmen laboratory real humor
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 14:26 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- One of our TA's has experienced some funny things in the freshmen
- chemistry lab (including SCIENCE majors).
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- One day students were supposed to use Bunsen burners. A moment after the
- start of the experiment the TA smelled a burner gas. She found four
- students staring at wide-open burners. "What are you doing ?" - she asked.
- "We're waiting for the fire !" - they replied.
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- Another time the students were supposed to measure 160 mL of water.
- "It is impossible !" - one of them argued - "We have only 100 mL cylinders !"
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- One of students understood from the experimental procedure that a graduated
- cylinder is a filtration device. "How should I form a paper filter to fit
- the cylinder interior ?" - he asked.
-
- After three titration experiments one of the students asked "What is
- titration ?"
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- The students were supposed to do very simple calculation during the
- experiment, namely subtraction of two numbers. A few of them were
- very disappointed - "You did not tell us we needed calculators !" -
- argued with TA.
-
- Funny ? For sure, better than Polish jokes :-) But with such "educated"
- people Japanese will always win the economic competition.
-
- Robert Fraczkiewicz
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Houston
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