what did you dissect in school?

other, we only ever had a bulls eye to dissect

i had to do a frog in 8th grade

other: person

foetal pig
sheep brain
sheep eyeball (college)

crawfish

i was going to make a med students option 4 u gbx

Dropped out of anatomy class 1/2 year thru 'cause I didn't have the stomach for it and also became a vegetarian months later.

worm (was out sick the day this happened)
frog (my lab partner wanted to do all the hands-on dissecting work, i just pinned it down)
fetal pig (AP bio)

Other: worm and a cow's eye. Revolting.

We went on a visit to a pathology lab for human Biology but we weren't invited to do any actual dissecting.

ugh i can still remember the smell of the frog and formaldehyde

Giant earthworm
Frog
Fetal pig

I feel like there was something else, in jr high...a bug? Of some kind?

I never had to do this, thank god. Like to think I would have done an Elliot and set 'em all free though.

I never had to do this, thank god. Like to think I would have done an Elliot and set 'em all free though.

― NickB, Monday, November 17, 2008 10:46 AM

they're typically already dead

Don't think we dissected anything in school. We did once kick a dead squirrel round the playground for a while though, that fell apart after a bit.

A frog and a worm.

CAT.

:(

Tons of stuff: cat, worm, fetal pig, clam, frog, cow's heart, some big ass eyeball, school was kinda cool sometimes.

Yeah, and there's not much to set free.

The biggest thing: frog.

I refused flat out to do a cat and sat in the library during class for a week.

"Run! Run my...skinless...corpses...god you smell like formaldehyde..." xpost

when my mom was in HS she had to dissect a frog that was still alive (they had to knock it unconscious first), and in the middle of her dissection her frog woke up and leapt off the table. she's still terrified of frogs to this day

The running joke in the class was that most people got a small malnourished-looking formaldehyde-soaked cat, while my partner and I got this beast, absolutely one of the biggest cats I've ever seen. Thing was fairly terrifying at first, but the whole exercise was really interesting.

Nothing, as far as I can recall. Maybe I blocked it out.

Pig's eye. The teacher walked in with a glass jar full of eyes and placed it on the front table. Three people threw up.
As a class we also had to dissect a pig's heart, liver, and lungs. The whole lot was brought in attached together, including the windpipe. Bleurgh...

Yeah, loads of stuff. Earthworms, frogs, mudpuppies, foetal pig...

I have a funny story about a foetal pig but I'm not sure I should tell it here.

good lord, I'm happy I never went to school in UK/US.

Earthworm
Frog
Squid

Squid? Cool!

I did a starfish.

i was going to make a med students option 4 u gbx

― eman, Monday, November 17, 2008 9:40 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

thanks dood

dissecting squid would have been dope imo

Oh yeah, there was a cow's heart as well, but I think the teacher might have done that one while we watched.

good lord, I'm happy I never went to school in UK/US.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, November 17, 2008 11:06 AM

barbarians am i right

btw don't gis for "fetal pig"

cow eye, sheep brain, earthworm, fetal pig, cat

the cats we did in groups of 2-3ppl/cat and one group's cat HAD KITTENS

eew

Cow's heart? That's a meal right there.

Oh god, I just remembered getting tiny bits of pig brain flung on me by one classmate who decided to pry open the skull.

i couldn't stomach the grasshopper, let alone the fetal pig. my teacher let me skip it.

the two dipshits sitting in front of me were playing with the cut-up pig parts and throwing them around like a football.

I dissected a squid once at some kind of weirdo summer program. I dissected a cat in high school anatomy, although I missed the fetal pig in high school biology because they did it the very last week of school and I was doing senior graduation stuff.

But presently I am with gbx in "Other". Tomorrow we dissect the heart!

worm, frog, fish, pig, the class system

we dissected clams! at the end of class we were told we had the option to eat it. i opted not to.

Other - a white rat. It was kind of interesting, once you overcame the squeamishness aspect, I guess? Long time ago, I don't remember much about it, except for the icky smell after a few weeks.

Had the eyeball and the mouse.
One teacher also cut the head off a live chicken in Rural Science. It didn't really 'run around', as legend has it, but it did flap, kick about and spasm quite a bit.

other: dead pregnant rat with loads of wee dead baby rats inside it

A frog. It was a singular disaster, literally hacking up the poor thing. Awful.

Worm.

http://www.sheffield-rocks.me.uk/images/funkyworm-hustle.gif

We didn't do any of this.

Somebody in class actually did hack up their rat, they thought they'd done the last part of dissection, so the cut it into tiny pieces for the lulz. Then the teacher announced thatin the next lesson we'd be examining the spinal column or whatever, and they had to go and fess up. THAT bit, at least, was funny.

In HS biology I pithed my own personal frog and dissected it, so as to watch its heart beating.(NB: Pithing consists of jabbing a needle into the brain pan and scrambling the frog's brain to mush by racheting the needle around.)

In college biology I dissected an extremely dead foetal pig, which had been prepared by injecting colored latex into its circulatory system, so as to make it easier to distinguish arteries from veins, then pickling it in formaldehyde for what appeared to be several decades. Perhaps it had been assigned to me at birth, like one of those child-betrothal things they do in India, except I was betrothed to a dead pig.

I took a high school class called Dissection Biology, where we started with worms and crawfish and ended at baby pigs and baby sharks.

Shark liver is cool!

This class was an elective.

Other electives I took in high school:
20th century world revolutions
A video editing class where we ended up in a room under the football stadium bleachers full of Apple IIes and never edited video or even saw video cameras
Auto tech (about lawnmower engines...shitty bait & switch)
Walking Fitness

rat
foetal pig
frog
grasshopper
sheep brain
cow heart
cow eyeball
different kinds of worms
so glad we never dissected a cat, though i remember seeing some frozen cats awaiting dissection during a pre-university-but-at-a-university course i did. i don't know, maybe it would've been a good thing tho. my highschool biology teacher did once hit a coyote with his car and then brought it to class.

cat most recently. rather disturbing, as I have three of my own

Frog and pig. You know, I didn't learn shit from these exercises that the book hadn't already told me.

earthworm
some kind of crab
rabbit

I was squeamish about incisions (and still am) (even with the earthworm!) and would always let my lab partner start the dissection. Until the body was opened up I didn't want to touch a thing. Once the object on my table started resembling a diagram in a textbook then I was fine.

we did earthworms in hs biology but my mom was a biology teacher until i was in 11th grade and she brought home a fetal pig once and dissected it in the kitchen. i can't remember why she did that though, i was about 7. she also dissected owl pellets.

"pithed" frog. specimen freshly killed w/poker in the brain by father middendorf (wearing sadistic grin) so we could study reflexive muscle twitching etc.

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I know the teech diseccted (still full) cow stomach/intestines in one class, but just the one in front of us all.

We did a cow/bull's eye but I was away that day, poop. I dont recall ever doing worms or simpler things. I wouldn't have minded any of it, I loved biology, to the point where my year 10 work experience was spending 2 weeks at a medical research school on the ANU campus. They do experiments on live cats and monkeys - and this is for legitimate medical research (not shitty cosmetic vivisection). There was a large, old sheep kept in a pen barely bigger than itself in an office (!). Rooms full of caged rats, cats and monkeys. We couldnt go near the monkeys, as they bred diseases in them like malaria.

It was interesting and rather eye opening, and getting to use an electron microscope was FREAKIN AWESOME.

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we dissected rats. some of the more disreputable pupils brought rat heads, intestines, and other body parts back to the classrooms. I remember one teacher (the father of an ILX poster) commenting "I smell a rat" when noticing non-specific shifty student behaviour.

Great days, Gay, great days.

really? a cat????

i dissected a rat in the 8th grade. all the boys threw the fetal rats they found in the pregnant rats at the ceiling fans, of course.
In my senior year of college i was taking an advanced psychobiology class. I had to drill two holes in a guinea pigs head to attach a metal rod that would keep its head still so I could track its eye movements. the guinea pig died mid project and my prof, who had told me i had to do the project get a failing grade, had the gall to act upset about it.

i wish i had got the load the rats up with heroin assignment :(

i did become excessively obsessed with the shape and density of skulls afterward though. lol college making potential serial killers.