Tales of the Lab Partner!

[hopefulnebula]

Well, I promised to post about my lab partner so here goes.

First off, I'll have you know that if we'd been working with anything stronger, I most likely wouldn't be able to type.

We were doing titrations today... not strong acids/bases (that's next week) but finding out the hardness of a water sample. Not a very hard lab. In short, titration involves putting a liquid in a very long tube with a removable narrow tip (it's called a buret) and dripping it down into a beaker. Think of a long, skinny glass funnel where you have a valve you can use to control the flow.

So my lab partner--this is the girl who after taking an exam where half the points involved electron cloud configuration, asked what an electron cloud was--decided that it wasn't dripping fast enough and pulled the bottom of the thing OFF. While I was holding the beaker below it. Not "oops, I slipped" but "oh, this is harmless and doesn't smell absolutely horrible. And it's dripping sooo slowly..."

We're working with slightly stronger acids next week. Save me.

Comments

[boomerangele.livejournal.com]

Maybe you'll get lucky and she'll titrate some of the acids into her mouth. Just tell her to suck really, really hard to make sure to get all the liquid in the tube.

BTW - Invest in protective goggles & gloves if you haven't already.

[hopefulnebula]

Goggles, yes. Gloves, no, but I'm seriously considering getting them.

[marie-4-three.livejournal.com]

do you happen to be in CHE117? And who the hell is this moron?
cheers :-)

[hopefulnebula]

Yep. Her name's Katie Creel. That's right... this girl's a senior.

[snow-beast.livejournal.com]

0.o

In one of my Chem courses (forget which one... O-Chem? Analytical? One of the slightly more advanced ones, anyway) they wouldn't even let us into the lab until we purchased coats and goggles first. Maybe in your case that should be expanded to face shields and thick gloves that come up to your elbows. Ergh, but anyway, good luck next week. Sounds like you'll need it!

I think that right there is evidence against *both* evolution and intelligent design. According to natural selection, teh stoopid should have killed her off several years ago; likewise, any cosmic designer that created *that* surely can't be terribly intelligent. =P

[hopefulnebula]

Yep. We have to have goggles and wear them, as well as long pants and closed-toed shoes.

[zogblog.livejournal.com]

I would also invest in some kind of lab or other long coat. That way, you won't get harmed as much if something spills on you. *shakes head* I agree; you would think that her stupidity would have killed her off by now.