I was a professional student and worked on getting my MBA in Healthcare Admin despite my hearing loss. My professors knew I had a hearing loss and had hearing aids but were unable to provide any accommodations for me. This was the time when there was little available anyway. So I attempted to educate myself and them about what I needed and they helped me with my studies as much as they could. I finished my MBA in 3 years and was given the MBA Student of the Year Award. While that may have been wonderful, I was also given the opportunity to teach at the MBA level for a semester as well to get my feet wet with students. I did that while I was working full time and learning how to hear with hearing aids. I created power points to teach others about hearing loss and those who I interacted with. I became involved with the State HLAA organization as well as the local Chapter. I interacted with nursing friends that I knew and offered to give them insights into how to work with the deaf/hard of hearing world for one of the hospital system. It was well received. Remember - this is before the digitized technology we take for granted now a days. There was no fancy cell phones and assistive devices to go along with our devices for hearing accept for the "new" FM system that required many different pieces to make it work. Then with time we were given Bluetooth - streaming and highbred digitalized hearing aids with the iPhone that opened our world to better hearing for high prices if you could afford it all in the last 1