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a lab or a hands on class
or more moving around,
then I use ASL interpreter
because it's just awkward to
carry around a laptop reading
words on a screen.
PROFESSOR: What do you want
to do after you graduate?
SHEILA: Right now, I'm
applying to one Ph.d program
at Harvard that's a
program he is a part of,
so he may be my
professor next year even.
PROFESSOR: Yeah.
If you graduate.
What's the program?
This is a little sales pitch.
You can tell them about it.
SHEILA: The program
is part of Harvard,
but it was a part of MIT before.
But it's a Ph.d program
called Speech and Hearing
Bioscience and Technology.
Right?
PROFESSOR: Right.
SHEILA: And it's a program
that focus on hearing, cochlear
implant, hearing
aids, or anything
related to hearing and speech.
So right now, I'm
applying to that program.
We'll see how it goes.
PROFESSOR: Good.
AUDIENCE: This is personal,
but did your boyfriend already
know sign language?
SHEILA: Oh, he's deaf himself,
so he knows sign language.
But he's like me.
He could speak and sign.
But difference is
he had cochlear--
no wait-- he had hearing
aid, I have cochlear implant.
AUDIENCE: Do you think that
you've become a faster reader?
Like do you think you're faster
at reading than most people
because you rely on it more?
SHEILA: I would be more what?
Faster?
AUDIENCE: Faster at reading.
SHEILA: Faster at reading lips?
AUDIENCE: Like reading words
on a screen or reading text.
SHEILA: That's a good question.