Confessions of a Clumsy Lab Girl

As a chemistry student, and a very clumsy one at that, I've had more than my fair share of the laboratory-related mishaps. Most of these are relatively minor, like breaking glassware and forgetting to switch things on and off. But every so often I do something REALLY stupid, and it's often been pointed out that I could fill a book with all my lab disaster stories.

So here is that book! Join me as I burn my fingers, blow up tea and do something I'll never forgive myself for if I live to be a hundred (which is highly unlikely considering how clumsy I am).

I have attempted to put all the stories in chronological order, starting from when I was a lowly sixth-form college student (ages 16-18) up to now, just finishing my second year of university, about to go into my third. And I'm sure my third year will be just as fruitful in providing lab disaster stories as previous years, so there are probably many more to come, which I will write up as they happen.

DISCLAIMER: All names in this book have been changed to protect identities.