Stretch Mark #14 Dissecting Rats
In my physiology class we had to dissect rats. It was my first time dissecting an animal. It was nasty I couldn’t stand the smell. I almost threw up in class. Just the fact of touching a rat was killing me. We worked in groups of three or four. The people who were in my team was Daniela, Gabriela, and me. I had to touch the rat because it was my grade. I had a bad grade and if I didn’t participate in that project it would go down even more. It was hard for me, but I faced my fear and grossness and I accomplish my goal. I was able to dissect a rat. Like now, I can’t believe I did it. I dissected the rat, but later in the day I couldn’t eat because I was so gross out. I got really sick! We had to dissect a rat because we had to see the inside of the rat. We had to see its organs. Their organs are so small, but it looks like ours. The smell was awful! We saw its liver, lungs, heart, kidneys, veins, and other organs. It was fun looking at it. I learn a lot from doing that project, but we had to be so delicate. Science is not one of my strongest subjects. I don’t like science at all. I get bad grades on the tests, but I actually like this project we did. I was kind of fun and cool at the same time. It felt like we were giving someone surgery. We had to cut the rat in half. We had to be careful because we didn’t want to cut the organs. If we did something wrong we would get a bad grade. I’m grad we did good because we got full credit. Oh, and we had to identify the organs too.
