Student Life Blogs

1/30/15

Part I Boards: Lots of Studying, Little Bit of Fun

Hello, cyberworld!!! It’s been a while since I’ve written my last blog, and a lot of things have changed since then! If you haven’t read my blog before, I am a third year student here at SCO. If you want to know what spring semester of third year is all about, I can sum it up in one word: BOARDS! Yes, we take the first part of our national boards in the middle of March! So what that means is my classmates and I pretty much spend every waking moment outside of clinic studying for one of... Read More

Posted by Erin Jaffe at 1/30/15

Preslee Trammell

1/26/15

Presidents’ Council 2015

Hello Blogosphere! I hope the weather is a bit warmer for you than in my area—we keep getting one bout of winter weather after the other. I recently returned from St. Louis where I accepted an invitation to speak on behalf of the AOSA at Presidents’ Council. What an experience! Presidents’ Council is a three-day mini conference where optometry’s state association presidents and executive directors convene to discuss the challenges facing state boards, optometry, and state... Read More

Posted by Amy Dunbar at 1/26/15

1/20/15

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Blogosphere! There’s nothing like the New Year to get you motivated for a fresh start and excited for the future—and I can tell this year is going to be one for the books! In four months, my long awaited, hard-earned, era of optometry school will have concluded. You read that right readers, this is it—2015—optometry school graduation is upon us! Now it’s time for lots and lots of preparation for the next leg in my journey. Each day brings more and more good news... Read More

Posted by Amy Dunbar at 1/20/15

1/12/15

Week 1 Fun

We’re only one week into our spring semester but I can already tell it’s going to be a good one! Since this is our last term before we start seeing patients at The Eye Center, we learn a lot this semester that is very important and very clinical. We spent first year and some of second year learning the foundation behind everything that we are learning now, which involves being able to determine what is normal, what isn’t, and what treatment course to take for different types of... Read More

Posted by Erin Jaffe at 1/12/15

Lisa Russell