I worked with and helped train military working dogs while I was in the service. I??ve seen dogs do some amazing things. Also, on the non verbal side I??ve studied American Sign Language while in collage. I love it and would like to someday continue with it. It??s kind of like speaking with your mind by means of gesture.

One thing I found highly interesting while working with dogs was that the handlers senses became more acute (we spent A LOT of time with our dogs.) I asked the other handlers about it and they experienced the same thing. For instance, we might be standing in a group of people talking and all of the sudden we would alert to something that was happening outside our field of vision. Kind of like how a dog perks their ears up and turns their head quickly for no apparent reason?.ha ha well we found ourselves doing that too. I have since lost this trait so our heavy exposure to the animals must have had something to do with it.

Speech writer ?cool. I thought about doing that once. My minor is in marketing.

You??ll do just fine in med school. What kind of Doc do you want to be?