Have you guys ever dissected anything?
I have dissected:
a worm
2 fetal pigs
and most recently,
a cat.
When I had to dissect the pig (about 2 years ago) I almost cried b/c I really, really didn't want to do it. Now I am numb to those emotions.
One of the girls in my class opened up her cat and there were fetuses inside.
It made me feel pretty bad. Worse part of this whole ordeal.
Dissecting the brain and eyeball was pretty neat though. Interesting.
Now we are working on the heart/veins/arteries. Next is the digestive tract, but I don't like working in the stomach since there is an abundance of juices. The reproductive system should be interesting, too.
It was very morbid, around halloween we had the brain and eyeball quiz and all of the tables had brains and eyeballs scattered about with numbered pins in them.
After I get out of class, even though I wear gloves, my hands smell like formaldehyde. gross.
I am a vegetarian, so it is kind of strange, maybe even hypocritical that I find these labs interesting. When I'm working on the dissection I almost forget how disturbing this stuff would be to most people. It just doesn't really bother me anymore.