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PROFESSOR: So one time,
I had a demonstrator
get asked this question.
What's the stupidest
thing you've ever
done with your cochlear implant?
And he had a
response right away.
He said when I first got my
implant, I went to the beach.
And I was 13 years old, and
I was a typical teenager.
And I saw someone else
with a cochlear implant,
and that was great
because it was
the first person
I had ever seen.
And so I said, let's
swap processors.
And that was actually
a very stupid thing
to do because each cochlear
implant user is not
only programmed for their
coding for frequency,
but they're coding for how much
shock goes into auditory nerve.
And some people
who have electrodes
close to the auditory nerve
don't need much current all,
but if your electrode is far
away you need a lot of current.
And this fellow got
a processor that
had been dialed in
a lot of current,
and so he got a big
severe shock when
you turn the other person's
cochlear implant on.
So that's something they
tell you not to do, right?
SHEILA: I don't think
anybody told me that.
But clearly I was like,
OK, total wipe out.
That's a bad shock.
PROFESSOR: You did that also?
SHEILA: Well, we both did.
We exchange at the same time.
PROFESSOR: Kids don't usually
listen to adults, right?
So are there a lot
of students at MIT
who use a cochlear implant?
SHEILA: So far, by now,
I think I'm the only one.
But last year, there were
two of us, but he graduated.
So this year, I'm the only one.
But I'm not the
only deaf student.