Veterinary school: second year

I'm a second year veterinary student!

This year we will learn about abnormal conditions. Our classes include Pathology, Parasitology, Bacteriology, and Pharmacology. That's a chunkload of complicated words for my CART team to handle and code into their stenography machines. They "study" my powerpoints so they can be prepared for the professors to say the words.
Examples from Parasitology: Rhabditoidea, Strongyloides, Baylisascaris, Diphyllobothriidae.
There's no current speech-to-text technology in the world that's going to get any of those correct.
Sometimes it amazes me that some of my classmates still think our classroom captioning is done by speech-to-text technology and not an actual human. That is an easy assumption to make for people who don't need captions.

To date, my professors haven't shown any videos during class but the online videos were captioned and uploaded at the beginning of the school semester rather than taking a couple of months. They also posted captioned videos of 3rd year students giving advice for 2nd year students. I was not aware these videos would be posted, so it's fantastic they remembered to include me before posting them. Overall, my captioning accommodations have improved.


In CI-related news, my Cochlear Implant company has released another upgrade. They've gone from releasing upgrades roughly every 5 years, to now they've drastically sped up the research-invention-government approval process. Good job for them! Sucks for people like me whose insurance do not cover upgrades and processors are paid for out of pocket. I upgraded mine to the Nucleus 6 last summer out of pocket, so there will not be any upgrades in my near future. Which is a shame because the newest one comes with the convenience of being iPhone compatible. This means people who get the Nucleus 7 will be able to wirelessly connect to their iPhones. They could listen to music and it streams directly to their processor. Fantastic feature! Perhaps not something I "need" but it's certainly a feature I'd love to have someday. Especially considering cell phones in general are doing away with their headphone ports and moving to wireless charging.