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thanks ismi and kalboy for the replies about Harvard and MIT! they were really informative.. and interestingly opposite. it gave me quite a bit to think about. actually (sorry ismi) but my decision right now is leaning slightly towards Harvard. Mostly because of the financial aid --...

hi angelstar, thanks! i had no idea real time captioning might be available.. it doesn't even exist in my country. it's definitely useful to know that. perhaps because i'm an international (come from a country with no disability services in schools at all), i don't know what facilities are...

transition to college Hi! this is to the deaf people out there (there seem to be a number in this thread too) who are in mainstream US universities. my attention was caught when i noticed that some of you are at UCLA and other highly competitive universities in the US. i'm interested in knowing...

i guess some call me 'mostly hearing' because i can hear and speak, but in noisy situations i can't understand at all. i also have to be looking at the person i'm talking to. technically, i am profoundly deaf with hearing aids...consider myself deaf but sort-of-able to function in the hearing...

seeking opinions for article Hi I am a profoundly deaf student who uses Oralism to communicate and I'm currently learning ASL. I study at Lester B. Pearson College, the UWC of the Pacific. I am writing an article as part of my application for a writing internship, and my topic is 'To...

I completely agree...

i am singapore-born but malaysian. and currently living and studying in canada :) Am profoundly deaf, wearing hearing aids, and have been in mainstream all my life due to extensive speech therapy. 1993-1997 CHIJ Kellock Primary School, Singapore With 1 year - 1996 - at Sear Rogers...

duke, princeton i'm not yet in uni (2 years off) but just want to share something i learned. i know it might seem small and irrelevant because i haven't experienced any of this yet.. can't say if it is really true. i'm a student in a UWC (Pearson College of the Pacific - Canada) on...

Please forgive me if there are any mistakes in this piece! i am 16 (was 14 when i wrote it) and will improve, i'm sure... This is an essay i wrote for a competition (link) I realize that it sounds biased and on re reading it i feel it is overly harsh but it was written at a time when i was...

I, too, sometimes feel that I am neither totally deaf nor totally hearing. I'm profoundly deaf but I wear hearing aids and go to a hearing school...but my hearing classmates see me as someone who needs special treatment because of my deafness. (this is my story) sometimes i dream of being...

wow! that's awesome! he's a role model for me..

Hi! I'm a 16 year old Malaysian student; I have been profoundly deaf all my life. I wear hearing aids and I speak and lipread. Now I study on scholarship at the Lester B Pearson United World College (in Canada) doing the IB, where all the other students are hearing. AllDeaf came up when I...