Exciting experience or dangerous??
Safety precautions in Chemistry lab??
Have you ever heard of it?
Definitely yes! ( even if you're not a science student! )
But we rarely give much attention to it. ( this probably due to ignorance of students nowadays )
This week, we had a Chemistry practical class where we had to carry out an experiment. This was our first Chemistry experiment this year.
The aim of the experiment was to show conductivity in both ionic and covalent compound.
However, the most important thing that I discover from this experiment is the need to obey the rules and regulations in a lab!
Well, based from experience in school's lab, students do not bother much about the rules and they even tend to break the rules. Besides, by having lab assistants who always assist the students in conducting the experiments, students are irresponsible and do not care much about the consequences they may face as results of their actions!
The experiment.
We were divided into our own groups consisting of three students in a group.
Practical manual were given to each of the students and we were supposed to follow the procedure given.
I was clueless at first, even after I have read the manual! Maybe because I have not carried out any experiments in a long time. haha.
Well, basically these are some reminders for all students. Perhaps we should read back the rules in lab and try to follow it to avoid and prevent any accidents or any form of injuries. I find this very crucial after several "fire performances" in the lab.
- do not wear high heels, sandals, flip flops! ( first important thing you should remember )
- wear lab coat even though it is very hot. You will need it as to protect your beloved t-shirts or colourful blouse from those corrosive chemicals. Also, to protect your skin!
- make sure you know how to use the bunsen burner. Or otherwise, you'll end up burning and killing yourself and your group members!
- use tongs when handling the crucible and lid
- make sure you know how to connect the ammeter ( which ever kind of ammeter ) or otherwise, more time will be spend on exploring the connection of ammeter instead of the real experiment.
Overall, me and my group members( Ainin and Firdaus ) were able to finish the experiments and luckily, no accidents or any form of injuries. Good job. Also, this week, we had Physics experiment as well. Standing wave and harmonics. Finally I understood the concept of those fundemental frequencies, standing waves and resonance clearly.
English Lesson
In English class on Tuesday, we had a book review presentations. Each group has to present their book review in the form of collage. Since, we all are future architecture students, I can say that our work has some elements of arts in it. "Creative", was one comment from our physics lecturer when she saw our presentation at the back of classroom. Even though our work was impressive, still, we had a lot of things to correct.. the content, spelling error, grammar mistakes..etc.
Documentary
Last weekend, my group members and I went to One Utama Shopping Complex to shoot for our documentary project. It was a tiring yet a whole new experience for all of us. Before doing the interviewing process and such, I never thought of the difficulties of interviewing people. However during the interviewing process, I realised how tough was it to become a journalist and interviewing people everywhere! We were rejected several times and most of the time, people ran away from us when we told them thet we are going to record the interview. I must say we were a bit frustrated at first. Eventually, we managed to interview few people that day. We also did the trailer for the documentary. It was a quite challenging task to compress all your ideas in a 30-seconds video clip. Even though it was just a 30-seconds trailer, we spent almost 4 hours doing it. And proudly, we named our production team as WHATEVER productions. Hopefully, we are able to continue our work for the documentary smoothly. :D
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