Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Saccharomyces cereviseae

5 Cardinal Sins in a Hugo Class:

5. Holding a scalpel like a machete or a dagger instead of a pencil.

4. Taking books out of the lab. Also, being rough with the books. ("What have you been doing with these things? Playing Frisbee?")

3. Knowing "something about the material, but not KNOWING the material. There is a difference." (Our Zoology class got a very stern lecture about this after the class average on an exam was like 59)

2. "Ingesting the reagent and spitting it back in the tube. Or dropping your doughnut in the test tube." These are greatly forbidden by the lab syllabus.

And the worst of all possible sins:
1. Calling yeast cells "little bugs" instead of Saccharomyces cereviseae. And there's no excuse for not knowing this is forbidden : the syllabus specifically instructs us not to do it.

Hugo quote: "Am I right, or are you wrong?"

1 comment:

Michaela said...

I get the impression that most of your professors are kind of eccentric.