/sci/ - Science & Math

Worst thing I saw was what some students in a lab I was teaching did.
> learning about thermodynamics
> have some water baths at various temperatures for them to put their samples in
> not enough baths in this lab, so we negotiate with a bio lab to use some of theirs
> understanding that their samples have to stay in the baths
> stress this in the pre-lab about a hundred times
> seriously, the importance of this was more than half the talk
> DON'T TOUCH THEM OR I WILL SHANK YOU
> students decide anyway that the baths in the other lab are the wrong temperature
> temperature changes everywhere
> no one figures it out until the next day
> 2 years' worth of research for 5 grad students utterly destroyed
"But we didn't touch their samples!"