Post your fun memories from biology class here!

[rockymountaindem]

So as not to start this out with some dissection cliché, I'll post something a little more unusual...

One day in 11th grade I was flipping through the biology workbook, and I came across a series of illustrations showing us all how to artificially inseminate a cow. So, there were all the reproductive organs deep inside Bessie's belly. Here's what I thought/said as I went from frame to frame in the otherwise quiet classroom...

"Mmmm hmmmm... interesting.... ah ha.... IS THAT SOMEBODY'S HAND???"

Problem was I said that last part aloud and with no forewarning. I had a lot of explaining to do to my classmates, but the teacher just laughed.


(And yes, that was indeed somebody's hand)

[Ptah]

1. 1966

"Here's a human brain."
:bounce:

[XemaSab]

2. 1993

"Here's a third trimester fetus in a jar that you will have to look at ALL SEMESTER." :scared:

[mykpart]

3. My biology teacher was a member of the John Birch Society.

One day he gave a pop quiz and then announced that the class average grade for the quiz was 76, so he was going to give everyone in the class a 76. This was to show us the evils of socialism. What an asshole!

[Frozen Hamster]

4. 2005

Going to check on mouse traps in a storm. Very much 'fun'. Plus we only caught two mice in about 120 traps.
That was fun.
Oh and next tuesday we're going to dissect foxes. The professor told us to bring rubber boots. This is obviously not going to be pleasant.

[KitchenWitch]

5. In my human anatomy class

in one of the lab sections there were plastic models of various body parts. The company that made these models was, I kid you not, Bobbitt Laboratories. So I asked my male lab partner if Bobbitt Laboratories made a model of a human penis.

:rofl:

[Mutley]

6. Forced to watch a video on the dangers of undercooked beef.

I've had to have every burger and steak cooked well done since. Only in the last few months I've been able to back it up to medium, but if there too much red, I can't eat it.

[LaurenG]

7. I took H.S biology in the 9th grade

I remember I really liked it because I was the class baby and I liked the way my teacher smelled, I sort of had a secret crush on him. It turns out it was old spice. I still like old spice. :evilgrin:

[Earth_First]

8. CHLOROPHYLL!? More like BORE-OPHYLL!

...sorry, I had to!

[seemunkee]

9. eating ice cream while working on my rat

I took a half day my senior year and advanced bio was my last class. I would go get some icecream bars from the cafeteria and eat them while dissecting my rat.

[underpants]

10. The footbal coach taught it-I knew/know nothing about Bio-I got a B

:bounce:

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. My bio professor used to like to take a photo of her lab class

each semester, and sometimes, of a really well put together lab project. Thus she always had a camera perched on her lab table. One week we perfomed an experiment charting the growth of common bacteria (scraped from varius parts of our bodies) in either warm/dry or warm/humid conditions. We had to monitor this experiment over the weekend, so we had lab access on Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

On Friday my lab partner, a wickedly funny Scottish gent who has such charisma that he convinced the professor and her assistant to make us tea, in the lab, during class., went to record our weekend results for "project belly button cheese".

I noticed the camera on the lab table.

I lifted my shirt and snapped a close up picture of my navel.

Sounds funny. Thought the professor would get a laugh when she developed her pictures...

On monday the entire lab corridor was pasted with 12" by 18" posters featuring an enlargements of my navel, and the words "Guess Who This is! (and win five pounds!)"

[rockymountaindem]

12. lol!

Wow, a mod posted in my humble thread. I'm honored.

[Loonman]

13. Watching "The miracle of life"

The teacher must have forgot about the baby "crowning" segment, because right before that, all us freshman boys got a nice bush shot.

[MarsThe Cat]

14. I wore my frog dissection t-shirt for the dissection lab final...

the teacher made me put it on inside out.

[RebelOne]

16. I can still smell the formaldehyde to this day

from when I dissected a frog.

[cwydro]

15. the never-ending

gassing of fruit flies...and then counting the striped ones or whatever ones we were supposed to count. We were always overdosing them accidentally and I would get all upset when they didn't wake up.

[undeterred]

17. My 8th grade biology teacher was engaged to be married

and we took great pleasure in pointing out the reproductive organs of every animal we dissected to her. :evilgrin:

[RumpusCat]

18. Getting the brain out of my fetal pig... whole!

This was 11th grade--I was the only one in the class with a delicate enough touch to get the brain out without mashing it up. I was very proud. :D

[EstimatedProphet]

19. Fun memory from Techniques of Wildlife Management

Tracking rado-tagged deer with a Yagi antenna (one of those big metal things that are handheld-looks like a handheld TV aerial) in the middle of a lightning storm, not knowing whether the lightning would decide to target me next...

[bertha katzenengel]

20. college anatomy class - dissecting a small mammal

My lab partner was tearing through some fatty tissue on top of the kidney with her probe, and I said "Becky, stop... that's the adrenal gland..."

That's all I have. Hoo boy. Fun.

[Democrats_win]

21. What a concept: DNA and cells. Wrestling coach was a good teacher

I was "sick" the day they dissected frogs.

[hunter]

22. I was teaching seventh grade science.

We were studying plants by growing them. I liked that lab because the kids could take care of their plants over the course of a few weeks and learn how to keep simple lab records.

But it turned out the potting soil I'd bought was full of earthworms.

One of the little devil boys in my class dropped a worm down a girl's blouse. At first she ran all around the class screaming and stomping and carrying on as only a seventh grade girl can, and then when she'd got the worm out of her blouse and calmed down a bit, she walked up to the boy and punched him in the face.

I think they liked each other.

[Left Is Write]

23. Fun memories? I enjoyed my biology classes...

(Human biology, cell biology, couple others), but the teacher was very, very creepy. Very creepy. I can't think of any specific memories except my best friend and I ducking out from under his arms when he put one around each of us. *shudder*

He was creepy.

[CottonBear]

24. I fainted when dissecting a fetal pig and cut my lip open.

Not my proudest moment. I did return the next day and continue the dissection. No one else in my group of three would touch the pig so I had volunteered to make the first cut in the stomach. The scapel was dull and I remember sawing at the stomach then waking up on the floor. I would have been OK if I had a really sharp scapel. :(

My Orthopaedic surgeon dad probably figured out I wasn't headed for med school after that!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. About 1964 -- we were dissecting formaldehyde-soaked fetal pigs

and somehow a contretemps broke out in the back of the room that involved flinging the eyeballs at each other.

[Az]

26. Frog eye wars and the 3 missing pig brains

Frog eyes. Pop em out and let them dry. Little tiny ping pong balls. Collect enough and start tossing them around the class. Fun for all.

The teachers didn't learn from the frog eye wars. They gave us pigs. Three brains turned up missing (from the frogs). We think one turned up smashed on a wall. A second one turned up in the girls locker room. We never did find the third one.

:evilgrin:

[Ladyhawk]

27. My fetal pig was named "Mabel on the Table." n/t

[nutsnberries]

28. Advanced Bio -spring 1979 (I still laugh thinking about it)

The room was dead-silent and the 20 or so of us were all very serious & busy taking an exam until the exchange student from New Zealand raised his hand and told the teacher that he needed a rubber.

:shrug: -seems the guy needed an eraser.
It took the rest of us a while before we could see well enough through our tears to continue with the exam.

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[OhioBlue]

35. lol that reminds me of 7th grade

biology and the mis-pronunciation of "organism" lol.

[driver8]

29. I was in 10th grade and we were doing a lab about blood types...

We had a huge set of metal shelves that were full of brand new microscopes that we would be using for the lab. Our biology teacher was explaining something to us and leaned against the shelves. The whole set of shelves went toppling over, along with the microscopes. There was glass and microscope pieces everywhere.

Our teacher picked up the phone in the classroom to call the office and a friend of mine in the back says, "Hello, Prudential?".

The teacher did not think it was as funny as we did.

[Lisa]

30. our Grade 10 teacher's African clawed frog went missing ...

... and he was worried about it getting stuck behind something and dehydrating, so he began crawling around looking for it. This was during a scheduled class test, and as he went around the edges of the room (he explained that small organisms have "wall-seeking behavior" so this is the best way to find them), we were all trying not to laugh as he (or rather his posterior) was occasionally visible behind bookcases, desks, crates of equipment, etc.

Mr. Watson was a very tall, thin guy, so it looked pretty funny. And he knew it (he was grinning, too) -- but I was impressed that he cared enough about the frog that he would try to find it, regardless.

The thing is, he was right (he found it about 20 minutes into the test). And as I learned later in college bio and psych courses, the wall-seeking thing really works. I used it to find an escaped hamster once.

I became a scientist myself, and this particular teacher -- intelligent, witty, and humane -- is one of the reasons why.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

31. 1977

I had a huge crush on my biology teacher. Imagine my joy when an outbreak of head lice ensued and he had to check my head for nits (I didn't have any, but we washed my hair with the nasty shampoo anyway because my friends all had them). Mr. Kinder, where are you now?

[chaska]

32. I had this dork ass wanna be sidekick....

And I had long hair (I'm a guy, newbies). One day this damn dork ass idiot deliberately put his chewing gum in my hair. I ripped it out, hair and all, waited for the teacher to turn her back, and let him have it. He sort of fell out of his chair, ya see.

:mad:

[LiberalEsto]

33. Lunch with Dead Female Squid

It was the day we dissected female squid. Biology period fell next to lunch on our rotating schedule that day, so my friend Tina and I decided to have an amusing lunch in the classroom.

She brought the hot dogs, I brought the buns and mustard. We heated the hot dogs on a bunsen burner, then toasted the buns. As we went through the steps of dissection, we took bites of our hotdogs and laughed at the green faces of our classmates.

I still don't know how we managed to eat among the waving tentacles, -- probably from the joy of grossing everyone else out.

[AirmensMom]

34. I hated biology class.

But I really woke up when we started mating fruit flies to see what color their eyes would be. My sister was breeding Siamese cats at the time, so I was very interested in genetics. My parents thought I just had a dirty mind. Whatever ... I got an A that time.

:shrug:

[u4ic]

36. I gave a classmate a joke candy

the inside was hot mustard flavoured...he ran out of class and puked.

[yellowdogintexas]

37. one of the guys in class brought in this HUGH!!!!1111 snapping

turtle he caught in a pond and he and two other guys dissected it as a special project. The rest of us got to watch.

They anesthesized it and took its shell off, and we got to identify various internal organs. Then they killed it and had a lively discussion over the possibility of turtle soup later.

I think he got like 50 extra points for that turtle.

[LeftyMom]

38. I spent most of bio class in the library

I put my foot down about disections starting in junior high, so I spent a lot of junior high and high school in the library writing papers or doing some other sort of alternative assignment.

[Scoots]

39. We counted how many times the teacher said "Um" and "ok"

We were over 60 apiece when we lost count. And he pronounced "um" like "ohm"