One time in our AP Biology class, our teacher Mr. Mandley had us discect a cat.

I am sure this is nothing new to most high schoolers and I guess this is a common memory among people going through school.

But I guess I will just explain some of the things I remember just for my own documentation of what went on.

We all gathered in groups of 4.  My group was Millicent , Jessika , and I cant even remember the 4th person that was in our group now.  I think it was another guy.  He was kind of in one of those other clicks if I can remember right.  He even used to play this Neo Geo handheld a bit in class.

Anyway, we got our corpse of a cat and we named him Quequog.  (After the character in moby dick).  Our cat wasnt just any old cat.  This fucker had the most obscure and large organs as well as skin that is as tough as a pigskin football.

We first had to skin the fur off of it and that I can recall took an entire class period.

The rest is just slicing and dicing many parts of the cat.  There was just lots of grey matter and muscles and bones that we cut out of the cat. 

The smell in that room was of formaldahyde and you could smell it all throughout the school.

We had some fun and it did actually teach us a lot about what we had been learning about.  That anatomy class was a near college level coursework and I learned so much in that class, it just blew my mind.  I will never throw away my notes.  I loved Mr. Mandley's explanations of the great mysteries of life.