Student Life Blogs

I survived my first year of optometry school, blogosphere! Big congrats to my Class of 2015-ers. We took over eight exams in a week's period-- no sweat right?! Somehow we managed to get though all of them together. With that marathon finish, I think we all deserve a nice vacation before the summer mini-term begins. So what do newly initiated second-years do with their one-and-only summer vaca during optometry school?  There's actually quite a few options! For example, many of my... Read More

Whew!  It has been an intense past few weeks.  Clinical check-outs, an optometry conference in Orlando, and finals.  Are we there yet? Finals ended Friday and boy am I glad.  While finals are a big deal, there's really not a lot to talk about there, but clinical checkouts.... So for those of you who haven't been following along, "Clinical Checkout" is THE practical of practicals.  We essentially perform the core skills that we've been learning for the past 2 years in under an hour.  So... Read More

Hello Blogosphere: On my first big assignment since being elected SCO's American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) Trustee-elect, I travelled to the nation's capital for the Congressional Advocacy Conference. Over 700 students and optometrists joined together as members of the AOA-PAC to storm Capitol Hill on behalf of optometry's future. The conference was a crash-course in the legislative issues most affecting optometry. One issue of particular importance that I lobbied on... Read More