Thanks for the support, guys, it's appreciated. The whole affair was, as I said, depressing, shocking, and humiliating all rolled into one. It wasn't anything like I had been expecting. I'm half thinking I should have gone with my initial gut instinct, which was to tell them I was sorry for wasting their time and that clearly what they were looking for, in terms of me lying according to the machine, was showing up and therefore I should just go. If their job was to believe the machine, then their job is done: the machine's showing them reactions to questions that could be interpreted as lying.

But I didn't give up that easily, even though I'm not sure if that was the right decision to make for me, as a person. I'm sure it helps to look and be determined during such a process (which I was), but at the same time, I felt forced into that corner, felt like I had to tell them what I did to show them my character (again, virtually nothing of which had to do with their questions). It felt almost like a lose-lose situation and still does.

You're right, FBI-Reject: I may sound like a whiner, but it's a situation I won't easily forget. But I'll take it in and in the end, it'll make me a stronger person.