Hemawhatnow?

[kiaxet]

I am obviously too easily amused.

I just got a call from somebody (she sounded young) asking to be connected to the lab. Okay.

I plug "Lab" into my wonderful campus wide search engine and get about twenty entries, most of which are specific rooms (Lab KSC 130, for example). "Okay, which lab?"

"Well, I'm studying hematology specifically, so that one."

...Great. Okay. "Alright, um...what branch of science is that?" Because I figure I'll just connect her to the science department that covers hematology. The English major in me knows diddly about science, but she does know her word stems, and "hema-" and "hemo-" are generally used in conjunction with blood, so this is either natural science or biology. I'll be the first to admit I don't know the difference between the two, so I figure I'll ask the girl - after all, she's studying it, she should know. Right?

"I don't know. It's hematology specifically." LSAKGNAWROG YOU ALREADY TOLD ME THAT IT AIN'T HELPING.

So I explain the idea of connecting her to the general department and ask her if it's natural science or bio.

"I don't know...I guess I'll do some more research and call you back." Click.

A quick trip to Wiki tells me it's Bio. Really, shouldn't you at least know what you're studying before you decide to make it your college career?

Or maybe it's just time to refuel the Logicmobile, I dunno. Either way, that made me grin.

Comments

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

See, this is a prime example of why I oppose college ever becoming mandatory. Because then there would be oh so much more of this.

[sbcpanuru.livejournal.com]

If she had gone to lab at all this semester, she would know that the hematology lab doesn't actually have a phone in it.