Or: OMG I want a scanning electron microscope...
Practicals that involve being near very brilliant (and very expensive) equipment are awesome. I could have been totally happy without the practical on calibrating a light microscope, but the electron ones oooooh. Nice.
Reason number 300 to come to university: They have big toys. With buttons and gold plated ladybirds (not for decorative purposes, its for viewing through the scanning microscope). I got to see bacteria on a ladybird's mouthparts, which sounds vaguely like something you would do on date five, and the hairs on her very dead legs.*And a fly, which seemed to have died from having his head drop off, and someone in the class' hair, and a bullet.
*I have absolutely no idea what gender said bug was clearly but its a ladybird, so we'll assume its a lady-bug...
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