micro lab in college - had to stick a long q tip up where the sun don't shine

would you submit to culturing your rectal E. Coli with monster q-tip?

  • yes!!! sign me up

  • i would have dropped the class

  • depends how thick the q tip was


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brainhulk

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this was almost 15 years ago, but it was the first thing we did in lab. Then we had to smear it on a petrie dish and culture it. I was discussing college classes with my coworkers just now

I was considering dropping the class the first day when i found out we had to do that. I didn't and followed everybody to the walk of shame to the bathroom and back.

would this sort of thing still be legal today?
 

HamburgerBoy

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You're lying imo. We just had to smear our cell phones. Most of the women that did it had fecal-smelling bacteria on their plates regardless.
 

colonelciller

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I had to do this as well in micro 101, although i believe we dropped our contaminated Q-tips into a culture tube containing LB overnight... and then we streaked that pnto petri plates


there was this extremely cute girl in my class that I had the hots for... not my idea of a great way to stir the romances... "hey Cecilie, how are your ass cultures doing? check out the growth from my nasty Q-tip!"
 

mple

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Had to do it for micro lab about 3 years ago at UCI. Wasn't a big deal for anyone in my class from what I remember, but it could have been because everyone was gunning for med school.
 
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