#deficient

Hi everyone! I’m just curious if there are some visually impaired students out there? I would be interested if you have any special habits that helps you keep the pace with your uni studies.

As for me, I have low vision, so I have to face the problems every day that it causes.

I started my uni studies in physics about 2 years ago now, but still don’t know the perfect solution for my difficulties. (Maybe there are no perfect solution at all.)

Most of the time I can’t see what the professor writes on the blackboard, so it is very difficult to keep pace with a maths or physics lecture and take my own notes.

I tried to take records from lectures and re-listen it after I get home, but to say the truth it’s almost useless for me. I have too many classes so I haven’t got enough time to re-listen them and it’s impossible to do that in a daily basis. (I don’t say that recordings are not useful sometimes! They are. Just not for an everyday study routine.)

I also tried to study from others’ notes, but I have struggled with it a lot too. It’s not easy for me to read someone else’s handwriting, but if I can, there also the fact that I usually don’t get the logic behind their notes. (I hope you know what I want to say.)

I think that is enough for the first time, so there is the end of my snivel. :D

The main question is still the same: are there other visually impaired students out there? Or anyone with a useful advice, opinion, tip, idea (or whatever) ?

I naively think that one day this post (and mostly the incidental answers to the post) actually can be useful for others too (maybe).

When I’m not with you

I pretend I’m holding on;

I’m a little over a month into my B12 regimen and I finally feel almost human. I’ve not been exhausted constantly, I haven’t gotten a massive migraine since starting shots, and I’ve had a couple later nights without being a total zombie the next day. I’m in a better mood in general too.

Who would have thought that B12 deficiency would mess with you so bad? But really, it’s wrecked me. I was at 162 in February, did 7 shots and after six months my level was only 200. Now, we’re doing a total regimen for shots and I’m starting to see some results. One week of shots daily and then a month of weekly shots. We move to once a month after one more shot, and can assess from there if they’re effective or if we need to change my rate.