Oops, let's try this again ...

[Pixilated]

(bg) I am taking biology for the first time in my life and we are doing dissections starting next week. Later in the semester we will be doing "bits and pieces" but next week we start on -- um -- an entire critter. For me, this is going to result in at least a temporary stroll into vegetarianism.(end bg)

So I go out for lunch today, to the restaurant I almost always go to, and I tell the server I want the vegetarian quesadilla instead of the chicken quesadilla (vegetarian version has mushrooms in it). It arrives and I think, hmm, don't see any mushrooms ... and I do a big of dissection on my lunch and discover that I do indeed have the chicken one.

Server apologizes profusely, gets me a vegetarian one and insists I take the chicken one home ... "I just don't want to throw it out!" Looks like the kitties have lucked out and will get some chicken over the next few days.

I'm a regular at this place but NOT as a vegetarian customer, so I'm not surprised she had a brain burp and sent in an order for the regular quesadilla.

[Slayer]

Aww, I remember dissecting a frog back when I was 15. Definitely didn't make me go vegetarian, lol! I ate my lunch straight after hehe. Later in college, there were other critters, too.

Good luck with it! I found it interesting.

I'm glad the server handled it so well. I hate when they throw out the food, too.

[Teskeria]

My oldest daughter was VERY popular in lab (although not elsewhere as she didn't follow the leader). Because she had no problem dissecting, the 'popular' girls would rush to grab her as a partner. Sadly for them, the teacher actually paid attention, so she would get the grade the 'team' earned for doing all the work, and the girls who stood there gossiping and going 'ewww' would get a barely passing grade (school rules were she couldn't fail them because their 'team' did complete the dissections.)

[Merriweather]

My oldest daughter was VERY popular in lab (although not elsewhere as she didn't follow the leader). Because she had no problem dissecting, the 'popular' girls would rush to grab her as a partner. Sadly for them, the teacher actually paid attention, so she would get the grade the 'team' earned for doing all the work, and the girls who stood there gossiping and going 'ewww' would get a barely passing grade (school rules were she couldn't fail them because their 'team' did complete the dissections.)

I had a similar but opposite situation in high school, though rather sexist, I admit (it was the 60's, after all). We worked in teams of 4, keeping the same teammates all year. I had a reputation of being rather a brain, so had several guys wanting me on their teams, so ended up with me and three guys - they did all the dissecting and bits I had no desire to do, and did it very thorougly. I hardly even looked, they just passed the info to me as they worked, and i kept all the extensive notes and did up an excellent notebook, which counted for a lot on the grade from this teacher. So we all did our part, and all came out ahead. And I've never personally harmed an animal in my life

[Sleepwalker]

I love frogs way too much to do a dissection. They are just so cute. Poor little ribblets.

[telecom_goddess]

I never wanted to take biology in high school cause I didn't want to dissect anything. I managed to skate my way out of it too Ended up taking some geography class instead...fine by me.

[bhskittykatt]

In anatomy, we dissected kitties. I named mine Fluffy (even though we skinned them the first day, and he was no longer fluffy).

[telecom_goddess]

In anatomy, we dissected kitties. I named mine Fluffy (even though we skinned them the first day, and he was no longer fluffy).

Seriously? omg

[bhskittykatt]

Seriously. No one warned me before I registered for the class. So...if you have to take it, you've been warned. (We also got to play with the brains of pigs and sheep, but those were just brains in jars.) It's really not as bad as you think, once you get over it and start cutting. And the school worked very hard to make sure the kitties were humanely killed, and not from kitty farms. (Most came from vets clinics after they had to be put down for whatever reason.)

[Sandman]

Strangely enough... frogs I had a problem with... fish I didn't. Guess being a fisher helps a lot!

[Seshat]

I've worked with dissected human cadavers. Quartered, skinned, preserved in formaldehyde.

I didn't like it. Hands were bad. Heads had me walking out, until the professor intercepted me and talked me down.

[bhskittykatt]

I've worked with dissected human cadavers. Quartered, skinned, preserved in formaldehyde.

I didn't like it. Hands were bad. Heads had me walking out, until the professor intercepted me and talked me down.

I've watched videos of human cadaver dissections on YouTube. They were great for studying for my anatomy exam, and fascinating (if not morbid) to watch, but I don't think I'd ever want to actually do one in person.

[Andara Bledin]

I managed to just not be there when it was time for the frog dissection in high school. I have no idea how I managed to not do it, either. I didn't try to get out of it, but I know I didn't do the report, but I also didn't get marked down for not doing it either.

It's one of the many mysteries from my childhood.

^-.-^

[cashierbex]

In my bio class we dissected pigs. Well the class did. I felt sick. Me and formaldehyde don't get along well. So I was able to write a report. Took marine biology and was surprised I can deal with the shark, though.

[Bella_Vixen]

When I took biology as a freshman, we dissected frogs. I named mine Miss Piggy.

When I took biology as a sophomore*, we dissected pigs. Named mine Kermit.


*Transferred schools midway through sophomore year. New school didn't offer any advanced biology classes. Passed freshman year with nearly all As. I actually failed sophomore year, because the teacher hated me. How do I know? He kept telling me I failed OPEN BOOK tests.