Random Note: This is NOT based on a true story! (All based on inside jokes)
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Once upon a time, a group of Medical Science students from Curtin University of Technology was doing a very important final exam, Haematology. That is not something interesting is it? Well, it was on the 13th June Friday - Black Friday.
Days before we commerced our exam, there were words going around the forum about the myth of Black Fridays. No one knew what will happen… and no one knew if anything is going to happen.
So days gone by, and it was time for us to do the exam. The moment we walked into the exam venue, we had a very weird feeling called Butterflies in the stomach! Well, it’s hard not to get nervous for an exam!
So we all sat down at our preferred seat (and hopefully our “lucky” seat) and filled out our little self identification form. Not very fun.
We commerced our reading time…
Reading through the questions. Hey it wasn’t too bad! Nothing too hard. Good.
10 minutes… we started our exam. Many people was busily writing. A few sat there playing with their pens. And another few stared blankly into space.
It wasn’t only 2 minutes later, one of the lady examiner screamed at the top of her lungs and fainted. We were all puzzled about what was going on, but some still continued with exams (cause we didn’t want to fail!). Curious to find out what happened, most people looked around and noticed a few green species walking around the room. They started walking up the stairs of the lecture hall and gave us all an very scary look.
But we didn’t care.
Some still continue with exams.
One of those green species wearing a crown on its head started to scream in a very weird language that no one understood…
“We tre tliens invtding yo.r pltnea tnd we tre gonnt eta yo.r brtins so we gan tll cet glever, h.mtns!”
We looked at each other, puzzled.
Suddenly, Ben who was still busily writing his answers for exams said, “What?! You’re not getting any of mine!” No one knew what that creature said and told Ben to translate.
So he ran all the way down to the white board, ignoring those green creatures, and picked up a white board marker.
Well, he basically said this:
We tre tliens invtding yo.r pltnea tnd we tre gonnt eta yo.r brtins so we gan tll cet glever, h.mtns!
Through transcription (A-T and G-C and U transcription)…
We are aliens invading your planet and we are gonna eat your brains so we can all get clever, humans!
Most of our reaction was “What? You’re not getting any of mine!!”
The particular girl with the biggest reaction was Jasmine. She threatened the aliens, “If you dare take my brains, I am going to throw darts at you!”
The ailens didn’t care so we didn’t either.
Most of us was determined to ignore the exam paper and attack those aliens by now. So we took out our secret weapon…
Drank a mouthful of red bull…
Wings start popping out from our backs and we could now fly!
We flew around the room poking and attacking those aliens. Finally they got scared and tried to escaped. Most of them escaped except for one. We caught the alien with a large crown on his head. Hahaha!!
Tried to steal our brains? Well, you need brains in the first place!
Curious, we have decided to do a research on this alien to see if any of its organ resemble the known organs on Earth. So we carefully cut out a small piece of organ from this alien and run it down to the Histology lab. We carefully fixed it with formaldehyde, and embedded it in paraffin wax.
What a great time to improve our microtome cutting skills. We cutted this section of the alien organ around 5 μm thick, float it out on the 40°C water bath, picked it up on a slide and then put it in the oven to melt the wax.
While waiting for that to happen, most people went and have a coffee.
So when it was done, we stained it with H&E. The results of the organ under the microscope, looked like a mutated alien.
Unsatisfied with our results, we went back to the alien and took some of its blood. Interesting, its blood was not red nor green. It was blue!
We ran the blood sample down to the Haematology lab and did a blood smear.
After examining the blood smear, we conclude that this alien has a microcytic, hypochromic anaemia and query of Iron deficiency anaemia (?). Maybe the alien has been eating too much brain and too little red meat. Sigh… but still not smart enough to eat our brains =.=
The alien’s blood also have marked neutrophilia which we suspect might be an early stage bacterial infection (maybe from our unpro cutting skills of his organ… well we wasn’t trained!).
So again, we ran his blue blood down to the Microbiology lab and blood, being the one of the first priority of the microbiology lab, we plated that out on a blood agar plate. And true enough, there was colonies growing on the plate. It was bright pink colonies too! So it was concluded that the colony was E.coli after several tests.
The alien must have drank that milk in our common room cause he haven’t had brains to eat for days. LOL.
By the time we got back to the alien, we realised that it looks very tired and couldn’t walk or show signs of escaping anymore. It suffered from weak pulse and sore legs… and soon enough died of beriberi.
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So Black Friday wasn’t that bad after all. But because of the stupid alien, we didn’t managed to finish the Haematology final paper, except for clever Ben…
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In conclusion, exams makes go crazy and Red Bull makes you talkative.
