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[geneticalopera]

I saw the inside of my head today. My ventricles, my corpus collosum, my optic nerves, the lenses in my eyeballs, and even the bit of fat that gathers at the back of my neck when I tilt my head back. It was pretty darn nifty. It looked a little like this, except it was MY brain:

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[m2arnold]

Congrats on the med school thing and on moving out. It's a big step to leave home, but in the end, it's definitely worthwhile (at least in terms of not wanting to kill your family anymore, so I hear from some people). Have fun!

[dlyuber]

I didn't realize an MRI took so long - 45 min! I thought it was quick, like an x-ray.

Argh - I also have a love/hate relationship with all of the oodles of crap I've accumulated over the years, especially now that I'm in-between homes. I have so much clothing that I never wear anymore (or never wore in the first place!), I'm often tempted to just throw everything away.

[jetsan_supreme]

I hear you on the MRI. I did one where they were testing stimulus-response. They kept me in there for an hour with a temperature probe on my hand, and had me do four IQ tests with my eyes (they had an eye-tracker on me). I had to keep still for an hour, and got such a cramp in my leg it started to levitate of its own accord! :O LOL

Very noisy. I'm not at all claustrophobic, so that helped. The tube sucks, but I can see why Damadian's "sit down and the magnet rotates around you in the chair" would not work. I had trouble enough keeping perfectly still while lying down. A few blurry pictures.

Though the experiment was a muck because they couldn't find my peanut-sized brain in all that empty space ;)

Congratulations on moving out! You won't miss your keepsakes at all, trust me. Just let go! And make sure you donate things - so you can feel happy that someone else who wants/needs them more will get them.