heh heh, sweet. The best we physics majors get until Junior or Senior years involves flying erasers and hi-bounce balls. On the upside, we do get to play with the biggest machines!
My HS chemistry teacher told a really funny story to us once. He and some of his friends had some left over sodium from a project and decided to have some fun with it. They took it out to a pond and threw it in--entertaing combustion ensues. Unfortunately, some ducks landed in the pond and tried to eat the stuff, and they ended up having to jump into the pond and chase them off!
We made another cool reaction... I think it was HCL and MgO2 or something... We melted/warped the plastic screen shielding the class!! Conservation of angular momentum via sitting on a chair spinning a wheel, and then stopping the wheel (which starts the chair spinning) was also neat.