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<p>I’m thinking that you don’t mean what I think you mean…</p>
<p>Ours is about 40-50 pages w/instructions and questions…somewhere around 1/8 in thick… I thought the puny little frog I dissected in middle school was pretty bad. Can’t wait til I do a big fat fetal pig :/…</p>
<p>We got extra for getting the brain out in one piece…The key is to make a real gentle incision on the head, open it up, start chipping at the skull with your scalpel and other utensils, and finally pull the brain out in one piece. It’s hard to get used to the smell.</p>
<p>We did the pig dissection in AP Bio but there wasn’t even an assignment or anything. Over three days we just went through the pig. The last day after we finished looking at the brain she just let us do w/e we wanted with the pig.</p>
<p>I hate how the pigs over time start to shrink and dehydrate. The water just leaks out of the thing. And getting the brain out was one tough task. :(</p>
<p>Oh you must surely be super excited? We’re doing that sometime in June, right now we’re doing bioinformatics…thus the reason I’m on the computer right now =). Although I did do some dissections in middle school, and I agree hilsa, the smell of formaldehyde is lovely.</p>
<p>We did a sheep’s heart which I though was rather icky…it was an awkward shade of periwinkle and no fun at all. The only fun part was sticking my finger in the aorta and touching a valve this was slimy and cold. And a chicken wing…that was simply gruesome …all I could smell was the blood :/</p>
<p>But as for AP Bio dissections we’re only doing the pig. Although I would much rather do a cat. Cats are cruel and scary creatures.</p>
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<p>Am I the only one that gets nervous at this line? Maybe it’s just the kids in my school, but trust me, letting them do whatever they wanted with it wouldn’t turn out nicely.</p>
<p>…They don’t actually use formaldehyde any more, but the smell is still very similar. Just, you know, nerdpower.</p>
<p>Personally, I found the fruit fly heredity experiments worse than the pig dissection, but maybe that’s because my partner let them loose accidentally and ruined my customary in-bio snacktime for the rest of the year because whatever I brought would be attacked.</p>
<p>The first incision was wierd, the skin is crispy and crinkly, and chipping away the skull to get at the brain was really fun (by then you’re used to the pig). That’s pretty much all I remember…we didn’t do any scrotum fondling, lol…</p>