Veterinary school

I've obtained one veterinary school interview. I applied to two other schools, but they won't send out any requests until January for their late January-February interview time slots. I expect to do a full update in February or March on how the interview(s) went and whether I got accepted and will begin the terrifying process of navigating through veterinary school as a deaf student.

 For the moment I'll mention I requested my usual accommodations for the first interview and I am a bit afraid of how that will go. Will my equipment appear unprofessional? Will they automatically deny me out of fear a Deaf student will cause the school too many potential issues? This school had a Deaf person over 20 years ago, but I'd bet dollars to donuts none of my interviewers were at the college when that happened. If i'm denied, how will I know if it was me or the equipment that made them decide? All the potential outcomes! A positive note would be, it could be interesting to see if my accommodations trips them up. Typically, the applicant being interviewed may be worried about how things will go. My setup will jolt their typical autopilot interviewing process and they may feel awkward and stumble for the first 15 minutes before they become comfortable. That would be both amusing and startling on my end. Amusing because it is not supposed to be the interviewers who are uncomfortable. Startling because I will notice their behavior and it may affect my own behavior.

Now would be about the right time to quickly dive back into ASL and become fluent by the time I start surgery rotations in veterinary school. My current accommodations would be awkward in the surgery room. I've seen videos and it's POSSIBLE and has been done by a student with my same exact accommodations, but it would just be easier with an ASL interpreter if I can obtain fluency by that time. So 2016 new year's resolution is once again to practice ASL--something i've failed to do throughout the years because new habits can be hard to form when it doesn't directly involve school. I suppose the upside to not getting accepted would mean more time to work on ASL, but the downside is I'm already "old" and would like to go ahead and get started on what has been a long, bumpy ride through school. I say "old" because I am a non-traditional student. Most students starting veterinary school are in their early 20s whereas I am in my 30s.

So there we go, I've now put a notification to shame myself if I haven't started practicing ASL the next time I update about my veterinary school application status.