How Many Animals Do You Remember Dissecting in Idaho Schools?

Had it not been for a life saving tip from my aunt, a former nurse, there's no way that I would've passed Biology II my sophomore year.

When I was in high school, I lived for my science classes. Putting together my lengthy presentation on SARS and infectious diseases was one of my favorite projects. I could balance equations in Chemistry with the best of them. I even did pretty well in Physics even thought the math killed me.

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However, there were a couple of projects I just couldn't stomach. Quite honestly, the fact that I was grossed out by them should've been an indication that my life long dream of becoming a veterinarian wasn't going to pan out. I dreaded anytime we had a dissection project and leaned heavily on my partner to do the cutting and organ removal. I handled filling out the questions on the lab report.

Of all the dissections I had to be part of, the fetal pig was probably the worst. We did it over a series of weeks and the smell got worse every time we unsealed the bag. My aunt eventually told me to smear Vick's Vapor Rub under my nose so that I couldn't smell it. Worked like a charm!

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While dissection projects are common in middle school and high schools, there are some things I dissected in school in Ohio (giant mutant grasshopper and clams) that none of our Idaho listeners mentioned. And vice versa. In fact...some of the things our listeners mentioned dissecting at their Idaho school were highly unusual.

How many of these did you have to go through?