Finding+Humor

Humor is a great approach to something difficult or challenging. But using the correct type of humor is rather more important. Messing around or not listening to instructions during a highly dangerous lab experiment could be costly; spilling 10 ml of 6 mol concentration of sulfuric acid( H2SO4) has absolutely no fun in it whatsoever.

On the other hand, utilizing a good sense of humor when encountering problems or dealing with mistakes proves to be an effective way to find a way out. Take our chemical reaction labs for example. Station #6 asks for us to have silver nitrate react with copper. Due to some unexplainable problems, my lab partner, Robert, added the wrong solution inside the beaker, which caused us to wait a couple of minutes until we realized that nothing has changed with the copper coating. When we saw the other groups copper change, we found out our embarrassing mistake. Well, in the end, Rob and I just laughed it off and moved on to the next lab. It was really quite humiliating since the AgNO3 sign is right on the side of the bottle.

Humor eliminates awkwardness in a sense, especially in classroom situations. Every time when a person yells out the wrong answer in class, everyone just laughs, and the person would laugh at his or her own mistake too. But whats more important is that even though the person made quite a scene for him or herself, he will definitely know the correct answer the next time he sees it.

= = =HUMOR IS GOOD!!! =