Lab mistakes you've done

[Anonymous No.9727244]

>drunk the taenia egg water by mistake

[Anonymous No.9727258]

This is why you don't drink or eat in a lab you retarded fucking brainlet

[Anonymous No.9728723]

>be undergrad
>gen chem 2
>didn't do the prelab
>do titration to find the molarity of my HCl solution that I'd just mixed
>calculate it, move on to part 2 of lab
>lab partner asks if HCl can go down the drain
>Didn't do the prelab
>"idk if were done with it sure"
>dumps HCl down drain
>we get to part 3
>"using the standardized HCl solution from part 1....."

Tfw brainlet

[Anonymous No.9728761]

>>9727244
>organic chem 1
>take other people's solutions and replace them with water when they're not looking

Looks like you guys will be spending an extra hour again today.

[Anonymous No.9729174]

>>9728761
>drop 3 droplets of acid in the solutium when they are not looking
>their buffer breaks and they wonder why

[Anonymous No.9729180]

Does clinical experience count?

>Have clerkship in ICU
>Have to give glucose with insulin infusion to a patien
>supposed to load 20 units
>load 20 000 instead
>give patient the drip
>realise what I've done
>stop it ASAP and throw everything in the bin
>make a new dose behind a paravan so the supervisor doesn't see me

I have another one, but with a friend of mine
>same ICU clerkship
>friend takes arterial blood for an ABG
>takes a bit longer
>succedes anyway
>procedes to evacuate air from the syrange
>the thing explodes
>blood everywhere, on him, on me, on the patient, on the sheets and on the ground

[Anonymous No.9729193]

>>9729180
classic stitch up

[Anonymous No.9729199]

>>9727244
How can you fuck up this badly

[Anonymous No.9729258]

>forgot a minus sign and had to erase a line in a proof once

[Anonymous No.9729346]

>>9729174
Twisted

[Anonymous No.9729350]

>>9729199
Some guy on Reddit accidentally jabbed himself with cancer cells he was trying to put into a mouse I think
Surprised more people don’t give themselves aids on accident

[Anonymous No.9729375]

>>9729350
Most people aren't retarded. I'm deathly allergic to penicillin and I use it frequently. I've used cyanide for a whole year before and I'm still okay. People just have to not be dumb.

[Anonymous No.9729380]

>>9729350
Lmao. How do these brainlets even get into uni

[Anonymous No.9729394]

>>9729375
The real retarded ones are those who think they'll never do mistakes.

[Anonymous No.9729488]

Never been in a lab

t. mathematician

[Anonymous No.9729512]

>>9728723
>dumping HCL on the fucking drain
Jesus Fucking Christ my dude, people like you are the reason i do pre lab Exams and mid lab exams where i teach

[Anonymous No.9729531]

>empty, unplug and leave door open on old incubator so maintenance knows which machine to lug out and where to put the new one over the weekend
>Empty incubator
>Leave door open
>Unplug freezer
>Go home

[Anonymous No.9729536]

>>9729488

Liar.

[Anonymous No.9729540]

>>9729512
>not dropping HCL, taenie infected water and old people urine in the drain
>not putting taenia eggs in the food of your colleagues

[Anonymous No.9729543]

>>9729350
He should be fine. He's more likely to get cancer from cooking red meat on a grill

[Anonymous No.9729545]

>>9727244
>load the dye instead of the ladder into pcr gel electrophoresis after cloning

[Anonymous No.9729547]

>>9729380
Daddy money and being white.

[Anonymous No.9729814]

>>9729547
>being white
>HELPING you get into a university
LMFAOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.9729976]

>>9727244
Spilled ~$300 worth of TFA rip notebook

[Anonymous No.9731842]

>>9729976
What was your notebook doing under the hood?

[Anonymous No.9731854]

That was murder.

[Anonymous No.9731869]

>>9729488
I've been in multiple labs
t. mathematician

[Anonymous No.9731871]

>>9729976
Better than getting it on you senpai

[Anonymous No.9731900]

>>9729547
>being white
>getting into Uni
I'M LAUGHING AT YOU AND THE THINGS YOU SAY

[Anonymous No.9732790]

>>9729545
Man, so many fuck ups from agarose gels
>Run samples toward the black end, effectively running them off the end of the gel in the opposite direction it should go
>Create 0.8% instead of 0.5% for DNA
>Split the solidified gel when taking it out of the apparatus

[Anonymous No.9732893]

>>9728723
I failed my tritations nearly 5 times before getting it right, and on the final I screwed it up again after going about for nearly 45 minutes.

[Anonymous No.9733004]

>>9729512
it's just a diluted solution. it's nothing.
i've seen much worse things going down the drain at the lab...

[Anonymous No.9734339]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn

[Anonymous No.9734406]

>>9727244
>drunk the taenia egg water by mistake

For the uneducated .. he drank tape worm eggs

[Anonymous No.9734438]

>>9729380
Being clumsy has nothing to do with being dumb

[Anonymous No.9735342]

>>9729180
>20000 units of insulin
Holy fuck man, I accidentally gave myself a humalog injection in my Lantus quality and was worried sick

[Anonymous No.9735676]

I can post a few horrific ones

>>9734406
should not be a big deal, it is not like they can survive going through the tummy?

[Anonymous No.9735677]

[Anonymous No.9735680]

[Anonymous No.9735681]

[Anonymous No.9735772]

>>9735680
What the actual fuck?

[Anonymous No.9736560]

>>9729512
I once saw a drum of MEK get dumped down the drain. Quit working after that

[Anonymous No.9736583]

Too many to count, but the absolute worst was when I spent a year trying to get my CRISPR guides to work I realized I made a typo in the sequence when ordering the oligo. I also once mixed bleach with an acidic solution and got blasted with poison gas.

[Anonymous No.9736594]

>>9736583
>I also once mixed bleach with an acidic solution and got blasted with poison gas.
What was that like?

[Anonymous No.9736601]

>>9736594
It smelled kind of like chlorine, but with a spicy kick, like the fimes from a strong hot sauce. It made my eyes water up and I coughed a lot, but the pain was only temporary and I felt better after I got away from the gas.

[Anonymous No.9736676]

>>9735680
>integration-compentent
Can it do triple integrals?

[Anonymous No.9737539]

>>9729350
wouldn't your immune system just nuke the foreign cancer cells.

[Anonymous No.9737567]

>microbiology lab during masters.
>Warm day
>Open window and set up Petri dishes on window sill.
>Antibiotic resistant herpes culture.
>Girl slides her book bag on to the sill while talking to me
>Pushes the Petri dishes out the window
>Fall 5 stories
>Glass shatters
>Group of freshmen below start cussing at me and pick up the glass.

[Anonymous No.9737598]

>>9737567
>roastie doing what roasties do best

[Anonymous No.9737729]

>>9737567
>Antibiotic resistant herpes culture
wat

[Anonymous No.9737768]

A couple of my friends almost got kicked out of high school when they had a flamethrower fight with Bunsen burners.

[Anonymous No.9737770]

>>9736676
No one can do triple integrals.

[Anonymous No.9737773]

>>9737567
> Treating Antibiotic resistant herpes culture like a freshly baked pie.
Anon I.

[Anonymous No.9737804]

>drunk
50 replies in and no one has corrected OP's grade school level grammar. You're all a bunch of brainlets.

[Anonymous No.9737820]

>>9735680
Really makes you think: how easy would it be for one nutjob to create a super virus to wipe out the entire human race? Just keep treating a virus with antibiotics until it's completely immune to all types and let it go.

[Anonymous No.9737887]

>>9737820
Good meme haha

[Anonymous No.9737892]

>>9735342
The woman was getting discharged later that day, if I hadn't stopped it she would have gotten a cute little hypoglicemia and wasn't going anywhere. Holy fuck the stupidity.
>>9735676
>>9735677
>>9735681
lol
>>9735680
HOLY FUCK
>>9737567
>herpes
>antibiotic resistant
>cultivated in petri dishes
thinking emoji.jpg

[Anonymous No.9738233]

>>9737567
this is too much of a ridiculous setup for me to believe it

[Anonymous No.9739520]

>>9737773
Herpes is a virus not a bacteria

[Anonymous No.9739858]

>high school chem lab
>somehow end up with about a liter of waste 5 mol HCl
>me and lab partner dump it down sink
next day
>teacher tells us not to use x sink, because it's leaking and they don't know what's wrong with it
>mfw

[Anonymous No.9740020]

this is not a joke of any kind, this happened
High school
Some shit lab
Theres a jar of water or something
tube in it
Try to see if you can siphon gas like on tv
succ a bit out through the tube and WHOAG it keeps going
Teacher comes over and is furious
Did you just put your MOUTH ON LAB EQUIPMENT
no
teach walks away knowing this is not worth the paperwork

That kid? was albert einstien. he's a ckmputwr scientists now

[Anonymous No.9740336]

>>9739520
He's making a dumb joke

[Anonymous No.9740343]

>Working on the LHC
>spill my coffee on my control station
>create the Berenstien universe

[Anonymous No.9740349]

A kid in high school chem fucked up and had to use the eye wash to get something out of his eyes but it hadn't been used for so long that the water was all brown and nasty looking. Another time a girl accidentally split something and it seeped into a locked drawer and she just left it there

[Anonymous No.9740363]

>>9735680
allowing women into science was a mistake

[Anonymous No.9740374]

>>9733004
>i've seen much worse things going down the drain at the lab...
I stole a ton of chemicals for flash powder and explosives from the chem lab in highschool, Potassium perchlorate, nitric acid, and sulfur. Usual stuff for some low grade. I stored it on my shelf in between uses, and this didnt cause any problems for about 3 weeks. Que me coming home from school one day, I hear my brainlet step dad flushing the toilet and muttering to himself. Casually walk upstairs to get to my room, see the amber canisters laying on the floor

Whatthefuck.jpeg

He didnt even care when I explained what those where and how idiotic his method of disposal was.

Surprisingly he didnt get mad. He was at a loss of words more then anything.

[Anonymous No.9740386]

>>9735681
>Organic students
Were robots not allowedin that course?