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 * FINDING HUMOR... LAUGHING AT OUR MISTAKES!**

There's always that time when you're alone and wondering about what you should do with your life when suddenly....you remember this really stupid and probably embarrassing thing that you did when you were younger. For this Habits of Mind, 'younger' doesn't mean when we were still in elementary. It was about a week ago when Amy Zhao and I did our Sodium Thiosulfate vs. Hydrochrloic Acid experiment. It's an experiment that tests how much increasing the concentration of HCl will affect the overall production of sulfur as the precipitate. It requires a stopwatch and precise timing (taken from my previous HoM) in order to accurately record results for the lab's hypothesis.

Unfortunately things went a little wrong when we were setting up our experiment. There are 3 buttons on the stop watch, and I was on stop watch duty. I wasn't exactly looking at the watch as much as I was anticipating what would happen when we added the 0.1 M Hydrochloric acid to the 0.1 M Sodium Thiosulfate. To be fair, it was the first trial so of course Amy and I were interested at how fast (or slow, as it ended up to be) the precipitate would be formed. So when Amy poured the HCl in, I wasn't really paying attention to which button I was pressing... Video below.

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Well, it's a good thing I ended up not finishing the profanity or else I wouldn't be able to upload and show it on an academic wiki. (: EDIT: I JUST FOUND OUT THE AUDIO IS GONE. So I guess you can't hear the freaking out that was in the background. After this, Amy and I got a good laugh and a smile from my silly mistake. I was practically jamming all the buttons at the same time out of the confusion that arose (you can't see it on the movie, though). Although it wasn't like getting a bad grade on a test and being able to make it up later, this mistake proved once again that humans are definitely not perfect, and it would be boring if we were. It's like our saving grace. We were all good natured about it and it ended up making our experiment much more interesting, especially since we had to take 25 trials of the same thing you see in the video. :D

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