PHOTO Alyssa Branoff

As he leans toward the tray, junior Robert Haynes cuts open his worm in his biology class. “I thought the worm would be more graphic than it was. I thought that the organs would be easier to see, and there would be more blood,” Haynes said. “There wasn’t a lot of blood, which is good because it wasn’t as messy as it would’ve been if there was blood. The only problem I really had was trying not to cut the digestive tract, because if I did, then the digested food and waste would’ve leaked out onto my hands. I didn’t cut the tract, so that was good.”