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We dissected an eye and I hated it. I basically hated science because I was no good at it. The only memory I have of it was when someone had their bescher explode and it was chaos in class for a few minutes and the teacher was really mad and we were all giggling like crazy. That was my second year of high school I think.

There were so many experiments unofficially and officially that I must have forgot half of it.

My favourites were dissecting an iguana so that we can attach electrodes to its spine and see if it'll work the voltmeter.

Making thermit as a school project then tried to improve it which resulted in the school lab's ceiling being black until they painted it over.

Making composition C-1 from nothing more than everyday camping equipment and spare parts then putting it in a rocket as an excuse to "build a better firework" to show off to the other kids who didn't know squat about science. It ended with a bang that's for sure. :)

Ahh...those were good ol times. :)

University experiments are kind of boring and are just rushed through the labs.. we know the theory, just want to get a correct result for marks. That's bad.

In highschool I suppose that disectin a frog was the most memorable. We didn't do that much else. I was really disappointed that I didn't get to participate in any 'science fare' type of events :(

Most of university experiments are a drag. Specially some of the less interesting ones that involve things that you can not see results. And see, I mean actually visibly notice something happen.

Like extracting DNA or RNA, or working with other colorless reagents and substances. It's like your doing 3 hours of lab work around a drop of water...

Anyhow, moving onto the question that was made. I must say that I enjoyed working with a fish that we happened to dissect and see the effect adrenalin had on the little bugger. We eventually removed it's heart totally from the body and saw how long we could keep it beating by submitting it to salt water, adrenalin, and other solutions. I remember the little heart kept beating for over 45 minutes after removal!! It was impressive.

There we other experiments like the miniature volcano in highschool and such... but the adrenalin pumping heart was cool.

In High School for Science Fair, this girl and I did this experiment with human teeth and soda. I don't remember what we were testing exactly, but I think it was which soda is more damaging, or something. Well, it was weird. I got the teeth from my uncle who is a dentist, and the results were pretty powerful. I think it was how does X affect the teeth. You got the control and the variable, and I forget what those words mean now becacuse it's been so long. The girl and I won Best Overall for the project. The school I went to only had like 170 students, so... yeah.

I remember the one I did in high school, think I was a senior, where I played heavy metal music to mice, all day, to see if it would effect their weight gain. My teacher was just pleased I was doing something. Alas, I was one of those kids in high school.

I had a control group and whatnot. All I remember is I lost the mice in the school. They escaped from my locker. Probably should have kept them in the box.

Rick: Not all are a drag though...at least not the way I see it. I love extracting DNA, doing PCR and Southern Blotting. Especially love working with recombinant DNA in bacteria and viruses.

I might not be much of a tech geek, but I know I'm a science geek. :)

Too many, but I particularly enjoyed doing anything that involved uv-vis spectroscopy. Others I loved - anything to do with a conductance measurement, NMR, and a bunch of inorganic chemistry experiments which involved changes in color (usually related to changes in oxidation state).

Favourite experiment was making rockets. Not water rockets... but real miniature sized rockers that went up like 100-200 metres.

There were sooo many experiments that I cannot even recall a decent one now. But recently, I had the chance to draw some blood from the river terrapins, which was very difficult and frustrating at first, but when I got the geez of it, my, it was orgasmic!

Well, I had to do surgery on a rat this past year in a lab class, that was certainly interesting. Nothing like watching your rat awaken from anaesthesia just as you are about to canulate its carotid artery!

Launching rockets into the bushes on purpose during class - and experiments whilst on theme park rides at highschool.