I’ve moved off-campus, and while I live only 11 miles from Gallaudet, I feel like I’m a world apart, and frankly I enjoy it. While I love Gallaudet, I missed being able to cook, having my own room, and being able to get away from it all.

Since we’re on the subject of advice, I’ll give a mini review of the food places that deliver to Gallaudet. We have four major Chinese places and five major pizza places that deliver to the campus. A brief note, unless you eat out every night of the week, I doubt you will gain the dreaded “freshman 15,” eating the Gally cafeteria food ensures that….

Let me introduce myself. My name is Trevor Brennan. I hail from Albuquerque, New Mexico where I was born and raised as an only child. I'm a self-described redneck (I actually have three Jeff Foxworthy jokes that describe me), and I'm pretty laidback and easygoing. I was born hearing, and then lost my hearing in a football accident when I was ten (always wear your helmets). I continued to be raised oral until I was a senior in high school. My senior year I transferred to the New Mexico School for the Deaf, and in one very brief year learned to sign, and later was accepted to Gallaudet University. I will be a sophomore this fall, and just recently declared my major in Biology. I hope to pursue a degree in nursing after Gallaudet. My hobbies include horseback riding, shooting sports, reading, videogames, spending time with my girlfriend of 8½ months, and arguing politics (I’m one of very very few Republicans at Gallaudet, which is definitely a Democratic school, so I’m always getting into heated debates).

I chose Gallaudet because it’s the only university solely for the deaf in the United States, and it gave me a great opportunity to expand as a person, and also gave me a chance to get an education both in the classroom, and outside. In the year I have been here, I have made more friends, and have more of a social life then I had ever had in seven years at a hearing school.

I’m involved with the Honors Program here at Gallaudet, and currently serve as the Secretary for a new organization on campus called the Student Honors Organization (or "SHO" for short). We are an organization set up to foster a sense of community among honors students at Gallaudet, and also to get other students at Gallaudet involved in Honors, encourage academic debate, and most importantly --provide opportunities for people to grow. As a member of our honors program, I was able to attend the National Honors Conference in New Orleans last November, and I recently went to New Jersey to speak at the regional conference to speak on the subject of whales, dolphins, and sonar.