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Half of the students in second period probably aren't even awake yet. I normally wasn't awake/functional until about 3-4th period. Half the time I would sleep through second period 😂

Plot twist: 4th period was the teacher's prep period. The teacher burned themself while trying to work out how to keep students from burning themselves.

I blame lunch time.

Student here.

• Forgot instructions when doing practical.
• Broke cover slip under microscope
• Paid for the lens (which wasn't broken, but who cares, it looked like it and they needed money for their parties)

Right, imagine putting up those kinda numbers in any sort of workplace, OSHA would be shutting it down.

Tbh these numbers dont surprise me much given my experiences as a lab coordinator. The highschool students were far far more prone to mistakes and accidents than the college students were and those were the gifted students. Theyd do stuff like leave broken glassware and glass shards in the dirty glassware bins for me to find. One tried to cause an explosion by turning the gas on for all the bunsen burners and walking out. (Instructor reprimanded for leaving them in the lab unattended, student was expelled) The point is I am not surprised by these numbers at all.

I bet kids saw the chart and took it as a challenge.

Must be the person who put hot glass under cold water and learned something about thermal differentials.

That's a great prank to do when someone is sleeping - they wouldn't know about it when looking in the mirror but then go outside and everyone is clutching their pearls

Not always, but once it starts looking different we’ve moved past asking what degree the burn is and into “do you keep the appendage that touched it?”

If you went to the hospital in the back seat of a car? The glass looked room temperature.

Yep. I've told many people this.

I've also succumbed to confusing that schlenk connector that was just in a flame with the cold one.

False. Really hot glass would glow red, and sometimes cold glass would have condensation depending on the humidity.

Nah they are barely waking up. I know I was.

If you look at 7th period, it looks like someone erased a bunch of tally marks in Near Death Experiences. I'm wondering if they were downgraded to just burns as part of a cover up.

The seventh period had at least 2 student dead.

Maybe even three!

I would say immediately before lunch. After makes me sleepy

Might also be the teacher wondering why there are so many injuries and doing the experiment himself.

I sort of managed a near death experience. Not actually life threatening but it was a good show. Basically same lab, trying to boil different clear liquids out of a solution. You do it once and record the plateaus, then do it again and switch tubes at each plateau to separate them. Well we started heating it the second time and it hit the first boiling temperature, but nothing was appearing in the condensing tube. It stayed that way for a minute or so, then the temp started going up past the first boiling point with nothing having actually boiled out. I turned to ask my teacher wtf was going on, then the rubber top with the tube in it exploded off the test tube and the resulting spray of gas/mist caught fire and created a huge fireball.

I grabbed a hot beaker stand in 8th grade. To this day I wonder if the resulting shock gave me the ability to fuck with something internally at will. When I try it feels a bit like when I had electricity running through me.

Our chemistry teacher rigged up an apparatus to make a pure oxygen environment for showing differences in combustion. One student decided to mess with the drip rate of one of the chemicals and it ended up leaking chlorine gas so the teacher just ran it outside and left it out there for like a day

Fun times.

Cut myself with a microscope slide. Didn't realize the lens would drop far enough to break it. Whoops. Ended up nicking my finger getting the slide off.

My proudest science lab injury though, was with a plastic butter knife. Don't ask me how I managed, but I did. It was an ugly cut too.

Don't worry, it isn't real. Why would they make the cuts column when there were no cuts until third period? And you can't figure the chart just started there, and they filled out the information from second, since the second period tally marks are in different color markers.

Early periods, kids are tired.

Maybe going to school at nine instead of 8 o clock would help, since most people are of owl (late) chronotype. Studies have shown, marks improve. There's neurological and genetical proof in science. But can't have that, since work and the world is run by the early birds.

Also, the blithe euphoria of lunch lasts less than an hour before the inescapable reality of your current situation creeps steadily back in.