the fire alarm in my lab building went off last night, not a minute after i discharged a 3000 volt arc (which sounds something like a WWII battleship's cannon firing). i smelled smoke and freaked the **** out. ran out of the basement to a cloudy hall. turns out one of the grad students just burned the everliving **** out of something in the microwave, but i was kindof afraid the lab was about to explode with me in it for a bit. my group members' response was to wonder how they would explain to our advisor why i was in the lab alone (they were elsewhere in the building and i left my phone as i ran).