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There's been a lot of talk about the recent blind med school graduate, so I thought I'd throw in my own two cents:
At my school, a small liberal arts college in the midwest, there is a prevet kid who is blind-- well, to an extent. He describes his vision as "looking through two hazy and narrow telescopes". But he has a seeing eye dog, and in his classes he takes notes on a laptop with a magnified screen and a special program to read back his notes and contents of emails and internet browsers. The academic skills center helps out by using special programs and printers to rewrite textbooks into braile. In organic chemistry, molecular diagrams are drawn on "chemdraw" and then either printed onto relief paper or converted into braile. It's pretty amazing. Even if the kid makes really annoying and corny jokes and fails to see people's groans and faces of annoyance in my Gen Chem II class (it's not a prereq to Orgo at my school, so people often take it their sophomore or junior year after or concurrent to Organic).
Anyway, I too have had my doubts about his success-- "how would he be a vet without seeing his furry patients? How would he give shots and identify wounds or diagnose anything, particularly when his patients can't even talk back?" and well, I really have no answer for this. But this kid I've been describing has near perfect grades, and the mere hurdle he's trying to ascend over makes me admire him, so I guess it's not my place to doubt him.
At my school, a small liberal arts college in the midwest, there is a prevet kid who is blind-- well, to an extent. He describes his vision as "looking through two hazy and narrow telescopes". But he has a seeing eye dog, and in his classes he takes notes on a laptop with a magnified screen and a special program to read back his notes and contents of emails and internet browsers. The academic skills center helps out by using special programs and printers to rewrite textbooks into braile. In organic chemistry, molecular diagrams are drawn on "chemdraw" and then either printed onto relief paper or converted into braile. It's pretty amazing. Even if the kid makes really annoying and corny jokes and fails to see people's groans and faces of annoyance in my Gen Chem II class (it's not a prereq to Orgo at my school, so people often take it their sophomore or junior year after or concurrent to Organic).
Anyway, I too have had my doubts about his success-- "how would he be a vet without seeing his furry patients? How would he give shots and identify wounds or diagnose anything, particularly when his patients can't even talk back?" and well, I really have no answer for this. But this kid I've been describing has near perfect grades, and the mere hurdle he's trying to ascend over makes me admire him, so I guess it's not my place to doubt him.
