Disclaimer: The following accout describes a field trip and makes numerous references to things non-AP Chem students probably will not get. Yesterday, we (the AP Chem students) went on a field trip downtown to the U.C. Medical center. We started out with a tour around the bio/chem research labs. That one guy in the bio lab where they were making DNA needed to put on some real shorts. I asked how much the DNA decoder cost and the guy said $130,000-and I wasn't impressed. Sure, that's the cost of two or three really nice Corvettes, but I really don't get impressed by cost until you have to use scientific notation (i.e. 2.4 billion, or 3.8 million). I was trying so hard not to laugh when the one bio guy was talking about rats and their kinky tails and goody coats. LOL. When we went to the Hoxworth blood center, I found out that I'm not a medical technologies type of guy because I felt really sick looking at the fridges full of blood units. It wouldn't have been that bad had Lindsay not pointed out the Emergency Eyewash Station, Emergency Shower, and "Caution: Slippery When Wet" sign...........mind you, all they work with at that place is blood. Then we went to lunch (finally). Lastly, we went to a lab to rip open cell membranes on some ornery tetrahymena and the lady (who had a funny accent) refused to listen to Mrs. Wilburn when she said we'd run out of time. We did, so we went home and I slept on the bus. Fun stuff.