The Worst Lab Ever (or Fun with Urine)
In my third year of university I was taking a class on physiology. Each week I would have three hours in class listening to lectures and then a three to four hour lab experiment. Each week would focus on a different system - nervous system, circulatory system, etc. This story is about the kidneys and urinary tract.
On the day of the lab for that class we were split into groups of four. One person was going to be the control subject. One person was going to drink a litre of water in ten minutes. The next person was going to drink two cups of coffee in ten minutes and the final person would eat a candy bar.
After that every fifteen minutes we would all walk to the bathroom with a beaker each (labelled with our names - thank goodness) and collect our urine. We would then measure the volume, the specific gravity and check for sugars.
We were all kind of horrified at first - but after the first fifteen minutes we realized you cant be embarrassed when everyone is doing it! It became a competition to see who could pee the most.
A few highlights:
There were two bathrooms we could choose from - one with two stalls and one with six. At one point a girl came into the lab looking embarrassed. She had gone to the two stall bathroom and assumed the person in the stall next to her was from our class. She had peed quite a bit and exclaimed, Whoo hoo! Its a lot this time! and then walked out of the stall to find a strange woman at the sink giving her a weird look.
Another student came late to class, knowing what the experiment was going to be. The prof still made him go and collect his urine every fifteen minutes even though his results would not be used.
In the end it was one of those weird things that brings a group together.
However I heard the boy behind me say, Im not coming for the lab on the digestive system!
In my third year of university I was taking a class on physiology. Each week I would have three hours in class listening to lectures and then a three to four hour lab experiment. Each week would focus on a different system - nervous system, circulatory system, etc. This story is about the kidneys and urinary tract.
On the day of the lab for that class we were split into groups of four. One person was going to be the control subject. One person was going to drink a litre of water in ten minutes. The next person was going to drink two cups of coffee in ten minutes and the final person would eat a candy bar.
After that every fifteen minutes we would all walk to the bathroom with a beaker each (labelled with our names - thank goodness) and collect our urine. We would then measure the volume, the specific gravity and check for sugars.
We were all kind of horrified at first - but after the first fifteen minutes we realized you cant be embarrassed when everyone is doing it! It became a competition to see who could pee the most.
A few highlights:
There were two bathrooms we could choose from - one with two stalls and one with six. At one point a girl came into the lab looking embarrassed. She had gone to the two stall bathroom and assumed the person in the stall next to her was from our class. She had peed quite a bit and exclaimed, Whoo hoo! Its a lot this time! and then walked out of the stall to find a strange woman at the sink giving her a weird look.
Another student came late to class, knowing what the experiment was going to be. The prof still made him go and collect his urine every fifteen minutes even though his results would not be used.
In the end it was one of those weird things that brings a group together.
However I heard the boy behind me say, Im not coming for the lab on the digestive system!
creamcuffs:
That's a funny story. I'm guessing the person who ate a candy bar didn't have to go to the bathroom at all. He or she probably felt left out (ha ha). Here's a funny story for you. I went to class one morning and.....Oh damn I gotta go pee now.
smaptie:
Oh snap! I was the "drink cranberry" control group. Headed out and ran into a tour group for new students. Talked to them for a while with this obvious glass of pee. Priceless.