[mattkrause]

This is surprisingly common at big research universities! My classmate even managed to take a course on glassblowing--and have it count for her PhD!

[s0rce]

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[jonjacky]

The first session in my freshman Chemistry lab was on bending glass tubing by heating it to softness with a Bunsen burner. One of my classmates, with a burned finger, said that the takeaway lesson was "hot glass looks like cold glass".