Student Life Blogs

Season’s Greetings to All.. After six finals in seven days, the fall semester has finally come to an end, and I can finally relax and breathe for a few weeks until the spring semester starts. It has been a very long semester, but I battled through. The studying for long hours and practicing technique for long hours has paid off. Up next in the spring are Anterior and Posterior Segment, Vision Therapy, Contact Lenses, Theory & Methods IV, Ocular Pharmacology, and Clinical... Read More

Can it really be true...did the completion of my Theory and Methods final exam today really mean my first semester of optometry school has come to a close? You betcha! I leave in the morning for my old Kentucky home and can't wait to catch up with the Bluegrass state. I've definitely grown as a person these last few months, and I'm excited to share all the budding knowledge I've gained from my first-semester at SCO. I know time will fly in this short break, so I plan to take full... Read More

Finals have arrived and I'm actually almost done! Over a week ago, I wasn't sure how I was going to get everything done  before packing up and heading north. Besides practicals, which mostly finished at the end of November, we've taken 6 exams and have just one more tomorrow. As a class, we are able to pick our own exam schedule. In order to avoid having two exams on the same day, we had a Saturday exam. In the past 6 days, we've had 5 exams. Yikes. Needless to say, it will definitely be a much... Read More

Hey everyone! Last week I took the final written portion of the National Board Exam (Part 2).  I’m so glad it’s over.  I studied really hard so all I can do now is keep my fingers crossed until we find out our scores at the end of January! Now for some GREAT news… I found out yesterday that I PASSED the Clinical skills series of the National Board Exam (Part 3)!!!  That’s the exam I had to travel to Charlotte, North Carolina to take back in October.  I was pretty confident about that one... Read More

December is a month many people look forward to all year long. Snow, Christmas songs, and holiday cheer seem to surround us. There's only one problem. FINALS! I seem to have to force myself not to think about all the fun and exciting times break will bring because when I start to, it's so much harder to study! This Friday we have our final in Posterior Segment Disease. A whole 90 pages worth of notes! Luckily, as this semester's finals near, I'm realizing I have it pretty good. During... Read More