Warning: Never eat food in a university classroom
The TD Bank machine ate my Green Card this morning. "$20 Fast Cash my ass!" :) My cash came out, but no card. I've done a lot of absentminded things lately, so I assumed that I had already taken out the card, and spent about 5 minutes looking through bags, pockets, etc., after warning the next person in line. She wasn't crazy about sticking her card in so I walked into the bank with an "ummm...I think the machine just ate my card." One of the tellers went into the room backing onto the machine and came out a few seconds later. "Ya, here it is, right on top!" "On top? There are more cards?" "Yup."
Wow, maybe I'm not as absentminded as I thought, if some people didn't even notice their cards were missing. LMAO!
And now to classes. My first class, Plants as a Human Resource went uneventfully from 11-12. Unfortunately, I was waiting at the bus stop with a pile of people for over 1/2 hr as one packed bus went by, and about 5 came through going the over way. Plus, it was in a building I'd never had a class in before so I had to navigate around a bit. So I ended up walking in a few minutes late, but it was a big class so that was okay (throws up hands in an "It's not my fault!" gesture).
Anyway, onto the fun stuff.
When I signed up for Research in Psychobiology, I wasn't exactly sure what "An introduction to techniques used to investigate the neural and endocrine bases of behaviour" meant, but I wasn't sure wasn't expecting:
Prof: Sheep brains! We are going to be dissecting sheep brains for the first month (Lisa, I thought you loved me!). Then we'll perform experiments on rats, comparing control rats to rats with cortical lesions.
It's not that I'm afraid of dissecting things, I actually have a morbid curiosity, and have always wanted to try it, though I didn't like it much in highschool. And it would be interesting to do the experiments on the rats that we've talked about in other classes. But I'm thinking that I'll drop this one for this semester (and hopefully add Child Psychopathology if there is room, which there may not be). Couple of reasons. First off, I'm already taking Research in Child Development, which covers that requirement, so I don't really need two of them. And I don't want to drop that one because I took the second year prereq last semester just so I could enroll in it. Second, because I have two other science courses, one of which I know will be really tough, and three seems like a bit much (especially with another research course which is always heavy in the work department). Third, if all goes well, I'll be able to take it next year.
Interestingly enough, this class is in the same room as I was in for my Psychobiology of Human Sex Differences class. Here's where the title of this entry comes in.
Prof: I suggest that you don't bring food into this class, just because we will be doing the sheep dissections right here. Drinks are okay, but food, I am definitely not recommending. I taught this course in this room last semester as well, and was always thinking that the others who use this classroom don't know it's a lab and probably bring all sorts of food in.
(The handful of people in who were in my class last semester cringe slightly. My mind instantly flashes back to Wednesday mornings, where the entire class of 40 would squeeze into the 9th floor elevator during the halfway break, take it down to the first floor, and return carrying Tim Hortons coffee, hot chocolate, tea, and about every type of muffin or donut they offer. Yes, the includes me.)
Wow, maybe I'm not as absentminded as I thought, if some people didn't even notice their cards were missing. LMAO!
And now to classes. My first class, Plants as a Human Resource went uneventfully from 11-12. Unfortunately, I was waiting at the bus stop with a pile of people for over 1/2 hr as one packed bus went by, and about 5 came through going the over way. Plus, it was in a building I'd never had a class in before so I had to navigate around a bit. So I ended up walking in a few minutes late, but it was a big class so that was okay (throws up hands in an "It's not my fault!" gesture).
Anyway, onto the fun stuff.
When I signed up for Research in Psychobiology, I wasn't exactly sure what "An introduction to techniques used to investigate the neural and endocrine bases of behaviour" meant, but I wasn't sure wasn't expecting:
Prof: Sheep brains! We are going to be dissecting sheep brains for the first month (Lisa, I thought you loved me!). Then we'll perform experiments on rats, comparing control rats to rats with cortical lesions.
It's not that I'm afraid of dissecting things, I actually have a morbid curiosity, and have always wanted to try it, though I didn't like it much in highschool. And it would be interesting to do the experiments on the rats that we've talked about in other classes. But I'm thinking that I'll drop this one for this semester (and hopefully add Child Psychopathology if there is room, which there may not be). Couple of reasons. First off, I'm already taking Research in Child Development, which covers that requirement, so I don't really need two of them. And I don't want to drop that one because I took the second year prereq last semester just so I could enroll in it. Second, because I have two other science courses, one of which I know will be really tough, and three seems like a bit much (especially with another research course which is always heavy in the work department). Third, if all goes well, I'll be able to take it next year.
Interestingly enough, this class is in the same room as I was in for my Psychobiology of Human Sex Differences class. Here's where the title of this entry comes in.
Prof: I suggest that you don't bring food into this class, just because we will be doing the sheep dissections right here. Drinks are okay, but food, I am definitely not recommending. I taught this course in this room last semester as well, and was always thinking that the others who use this classroom don't know it's a lab and probably bring all sorts of food in.
(The handful of people in who were in my class last semester cringe slightly. My mind instantly flashes back to Wednesday mornings, where the entire class of 40 would squeeze into the 9th floor elevator during the halfway break, take it down to the first floor, and return carrying Tim Hortons coffee, hot chocolate, tea, and about every type of muffin or donut they offer. Yes, the includes me.)