Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

I usually enjoy biology experiments more than chem ones, because the chem ones all seem a little monotonous (but that's mainly because we get graded on lab write ups and its easier to do a good write up on a simple lab). I remeber disecting cow eyes in 11th grade - now that was interesting. Funnily enough, I was the only one on my bench who didn't mind touching the thing...

Well, most our Chemistry practicals seem to be made more exciting by the incompetence of our teacher, who tends to let us pour everything down the sink when we're done with it, leading to the classroom filling with HCl fumes on one occasion. She's also set fire to her labcoat more than once this year (while wearing it.)

Sassygirl: your school sounds very much like the Cambridge version of my Oxford one! (Our headmistress is quoted in a textbook on anorexia, just to give an impression of how pressured and neurotic the atmosphere is. )

eurrgghhh.... years ago, i had to disect a cows heart... was repulsive, so me and me mates decided to get out of it... we threw the hearts onto the ceiling and they stuck! ( pity the poor kid they fell on, they were rank...or maybe they are still there, rotting away....might go back and check!)

You don't happen to be at Oxford High do you? Grr... Headingtonian here!

We had to do heart dissection a couple of months ago - my friend and I were two of the few who actually wanted to do it, and the only two who did it without gloves!
(My stepdad has called me a ghoul ever since...)

Ha, lol...
(Who are you, I might know you!)

when we dissected a pigs heart i think the whole class took part and some of us did it without gloves...they were just slowing us down
I really had fun doing it - but pigs heart smells and i could smell it for weeks afterwards...

We dissected a rat last week...that was pretty cool. They come bright yellow and vacuum packed. We had one girl throw up...she wants to be a doctor as well!

theres are very few words to truly describe this ...."pretty cool" aren't amongst them!
rank would be there, as would nauseating,repellent, repugnant and abhorrent .
but pretty cool! nut case!

pah...you're just jealous. Just because you don't get your own labcoat in English

eww i dont think i can dissect a rat! I mean the pigs heart is easy because it just looked like normal meat that you cut up before cooking-- but a rat! eww and yellow as well!

All animal lovers turn away now....

the worst bit is when you have to break their legs so that you can pin them onto the board

Ok...you can turn back now

I remember dissecting a sheep's eye, and noticing the lens looked just like a contact lens.