Microbiology @ IWCC
Oh Microbiology, I have a love hate relationship with it. I love my class at IWCC, especially the lab. We get to do all kinds of fun gross things in there; such as, taking swabs from everywhere including our noses and throats and growing the bacteria on special nutrient agar till we can see them with our naked eye. We also stain them using various methods and view them under microscopes. We got to play detective for a couple of weeks till we identified a bacterial unknown we isolated from sampling various surfaces around campus. My bacteria was micro coccus. We usually just study bacteria in our lab (which isn’t very motile), but one week we got to bring in pond water samples to view under microscopes and that was fascinating. They were all alive and scurrying or wriggling about. I even got to see a flat worm with five digestive snack packs of organisms in its body!
