At last!

After a month of lukkhagiri, I finally got to 'do' an experiment myself! I had not expected an EPM (it's a fairly simple maze where u put a rat and see what it does) to bring me so much joy! To say the least, it is not bad for a start in Neuro. After 10 days of 'stressing' my rats I checked them for anxiety and the icing on the cake was I got to dissect out their brains too! Sorry, I don't know whether I am supposed to feel sad for them or glad for being able to do a novel thing.

I was unsure of what my reaction to all these animal experiments would be before I came here. I took myself by surprise when I didn't as much as wince when I saw the sight for the first time. The power of the psychic works wonders sometimes! Today too, I had steeled myself for the ordeal , psychologically as well as by eating less for luch ;) . I don't know what helped me more...but apart from the split second guilt I felt for the rat when I was about to put it in the anaesthesia chamber, and when I had to actually sacrifice it, everything was accomplished with surprising detachment. Inspite of all this, an objective assessment would be gud. I couldn't get the hippocampus (where we form some memories ) out in a piece, and couldn't wield any instrument with required force; which is like crushing some inanimate object; but I managed to get the brain intact.

That's enough of the gory stuff, I guess!

Usually in the evenings everyone goes to play some game..today I skipped basky and TT and instead solved some rebuses, and other puzzles....I realised then that I am not bad at them and I enjoy it too! Almost as much as basky!

Hmmm...there's oo much to write about but I will have to pause here for the day as I am feeling nauseatic, prolly from the omlette I had for dinner 'coz that's been my dinner for the last three days now!! :(