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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Back in my day, that was called the “oral examination”, not sure that’d be allowed these days either 
Sad to hear about your tutor, I would speculate that if it was his career path that contributed to his condition, it wouldn’t just have been the exposure to nasties but the special concoctions  given the tendencies of all the chemistry teachers and lecturers I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, it’d probably be the latter |
Indeed.
During one class I was attending, he managed to set the alarms off in the fume hood...entire uni evacuated and out in the fire assembly area...fire brigade show up, give the all clear. We went back in. 20 minutes later we were out on the lawn again
Firies said might be an idea to stop that for the day
We went home.
When we did IR Spectroscopy, he warned that anyone who broke or touched (ungloved) the salt plates would be required to write a 3000 word report on something of his choosing. Well, after showing how to do it, clean it and then running a few samples, his wife (who also tutored/taught) took the plate out to clean it for the next run. She handed him the salt plate and HE dropped it... He just stared at the broken shards on the floor...then said "someone get the super glue"