Student Life Blogs

After months of studying I  finally finished Part 1 of the National Boards last Tuesday. We don't find out until May if we passed or not but I'm just going to listen to my moms advice. "Might as well celebrate like you passed, until you find out if you didn't!" Just to give you a little more insight on what taking the exam is like I thought I'd be the most descriptive now since I just so recently took it. The exam consisted of 500 questions broken into 4 different sections of 125. You get... Read More

Hello Blogosphere: Spring Break, where did you go?! I spent all year looking forward to this one week and within a few blinks it came to a speedy end.  I've spent three weeks trying to wrap up this blog post, but as you can imagine, there's been no break from optometry school. In fact, since returning back from SECO  I've already had four exams and a practical...and I've got three more exams next week. As you all know from my last post, I was SECO bound. So, what is this thing called... Read More

Hey everyone! Well I definitely had a wonderful time at the SCO housing fair last weekend. It was great to finally meet some of my future classmates and be back in Memphis at SCO. Apparently we had the largest group to attend a housing fair to date - almost 70 of my classmates and 80 guests were in attendance. Some of my classmates and I started our day early with the opportunity to attend a class with first year students. 'Ocular Physiology' with Dr. Taylor was a great preview of... Read More

Last weekend was the SCO Housing Fair for the incoming class of 2016. It's a great chance for new students to come to Memphis to find a place to live and to show the school and city to their friends or family, while not being nearly as nervous as the last time they were here on interview day. I went to dinner with everyone on Friday and tagged along on the bus tour of local apartments in downtown Memphis and Mud Island on Saturday. Attendees also had the chance to sit in on a first year class,... Read More

Hi everyone! My name is Lauren Lusardi and I’m also representing the class of 2016.  I’m so excited to start my optometry journey at SCO and I can’t wait to share it with you. I am a current senior at Ursinus College. It is a small liberal arts school outside of Philadelphia. Here I am a biology major with a minor in business management and a member of the women’s rugby team. I was born and raised in North Jersey and I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore (before MTV made it famous). As... Read More