Warm it Up, Kris
I began my microbiology course last night as my first step toward med school. This course is a combination lecture and lab. During the lab section, we had to heat a mixture of agar and tryptic soy broth to boiling and then cover Petri dishes with the substance. Getting the solution to a boil was a problem, as most tables' hot plates did not want to heat enough to boil the mixture. One table got theirs to boil quickly, and I suggested we used their hot plate, and soon our solution was boiling, too. After we finished our Petri dishes, a student at another table asked us about getting our solution to boil.
This student seems like a brightish fellow. He's got a degree in economics from UT but wants to go back to med school and works in some health related field presently. He had been rather social and flirtatious with the three girls that were part of his lab group, so I figured he was good spirited, too.
The instructions on the lab say to turn the heat on the hot plates to nine, but our hot plates only have °C measurements. His was turned to about 110°C, but we had actually turned ours to about 400°C. When he asked how high we turned our hot plate, I told him, "We turned ours to eleven.", and this fellow dutifully examined his hot plate to conclude that his did not have an eleven. I shook my head and left him to his lab.