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<blockquote data-quote="Ashley" data-source="post: 2219249" data-attributes="member: 211048">I&#039;m an audiology major (hearing science) and I&#039;m preparing my application for graduate school. I&#039;ve run into a bit of a problem... I&#039;m supposed to quantify what exactly interests me about audiology or how I became interested in it. Unfortunately, as passionate and motivated about, and dedicated to learning about audiology as I am, I have no idea how to explain.I do have a family history of hearing loss but it was never a big deal when I was growing up and my family members who are deaf don&#039;t identify as big-D-Deaf and never really shared much of a struggle. Until I got to college, I didn&#039;t even really think about how many of my family members have hearing loss. So I guess it sometimes enhances my interests but it wasn&#039;t what brought me to audiology. I was originally an American Sign Language major but after I learned of my future of hearing loss, I decided that there wouldn&#039;t be much job security and floundered around until I found audiology. I hesitate to word it like that, though, because it makes it sound like my second choice, when in fact now that I&#039;ve found audiology, I wouldn&#039;t dare go back to ASL! I love audiology too much.Any suggestions as to how I can approach this? Maybe some questions to help me get down to the nitty gritty about what brought me to/interests me in audiology? At this point, pretty much anything will help.Thanks in advance!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ashley, post: 2219249, member: 211048"] I'm an audiology major (hearing science) and I'm preparing my application for graduate school. I've run into a bit of a problem... I'm supposed to quantify what exactly interests me about audiology or how I became interested in it. Unfortunately, as passionate and motivated about, and dedicated to learning about audiology as I am, I have no idea how to explain. I do have a family history of hearing loss but it was never a big deal when I was growing up and my family members who are deaf don't identify as big-D-Deaf and never really shared much of a struggle. Until I got to college, I didn't even really think about how many of my family members have hearing loss. So I guess it sometimes enhances my interests but it wasn't what brought me to audiology. I was originally an American Sign Language major but after I learned of my future of hearing loss, I decided that there wouldn't be much job security and floundered around until I found audiology. I hesitate to word it like that, though, because it makes it sound like my second choice, when in fact now that I've found audiology, I wouldn't dare go back to ASL! I love audiology too much. Any suggestions as to how I can approach this? Maybe some questions to help me get down to the nitty gritty about what brought me to/interests me in audiology? At this point, pretty much anything will help. Thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]

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