ITT: Lab Stories / Fuck-Ups

Are engineers seriously such big fuckups in labs?

>Research assistant for a color-vision study in 2nd year (co-op)
>Grad student goes "hey I have a thing can you test this subject"
>lolsure
>Need to turn on one of the tests
>there are a few different things plugged into a power bar
>power bar doesn't have a light to tell you if it's on
>hit the switch
>hmm, nothing happened
>switch it back
>nothing
>Oh, there's a switch on the back of the test lel
>Few hours later
>prof and grad student say that one of the computers crashed and they cant fix it
>cant use that computer (nor the test installed on it) for the remainder of the study
>mfw I realized that computer was on and plugged into that power bar
>mfw noface

As an undergrad researcher, I successfully killed/contaminated about 3 trays of bacterial colonies that had been growing for about 4 weeks by sneezing on them. Thank god I was doing it for money and not credit.

You're evil.

>failed first midterm
>have to rely on a really strong curve to bring my mark up
>replace other lab member's solutions with water whenever they're not looking

DEVILISH

I added some sugar to one student's urine sample at med school. Now he thinks he has diabetes.

can the """"""""" meme die already? its bad

>first year in med school
>biology lesson, learning to use microscope.
>teacher asked a girl for her saliva
>we saw sperm

The last lab I worked in you had to wear full safety gear regardless of what you were doing. Pretty much everything was conducted at a foggy yell.