My chem class has chem labs, that you do in class, where you touch the glass equipments and measure out things and attempt to teach people how to use burets and light bunsen burners. My bio class has bio labs, that you do not do in class, where you drag micropippets using your cursor into RGB labeled testtubes and watch the animation of the bubbling happen as the liquid slowly turns dark brown to indicate the presence of sugar. (Benedict's solution over fire to detect maltose, for those of you who are curious). It is very virtual. It is called a virtual lab. It's available on the CD that came with my textbook which also came with a password for me to register online where we have more online things such as quizzes and graphs that we're required to complete online for points (some 'quizzes' are over 40 problems long). Which reminds me to mention that, did you know, my entire chem postlab write up, complete with calculations, are to be completed and turned in online under a specific website? This is, of course, not counting the daily annoucements and emails the teacher use using the school's very nifty, but very unusual online system.
One has to wonder, with the so readily-available online interactions, at the state of health of real-life interactions.
Virtual lab sure as heck are safer though. No need to re-memorize the poison control number (which is probably different here, anyway).
Random note: this is it, David and Trevor have officially moved into 3rd floor Miller hall now. Random free guitar concerts though. (aHEM).
Also, thank you, Ms. Uji, for allowing me to get 100% on a quiz in a class where supposidely 50% of the students are failing.
And thank you, memory, for recalling the crucial difference of the oxygen on the hydroxyl group from the second carbon of the deoxyribose sugar (I am in all honesty, and yes, it's as tedious to memorize as it sounds like it might be).
Happy Thursday.
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