Student Life Blogs

Hi y’all! :) I’m officially a 4th-year optometry student!!! How crazy! It’s such a bittersweet feeling to be completely done with my didactic career at SCO. Yes, I’m very very excited to no longer have to take an SCO exam again but I’m also extremely sad that time has gone so quickly. I just cannot believe that I’ve already been in Memphis three years and have taken hundreds of exams at the school. A lot of my classmates are no longer on campus because... Read More

Hi everyone! It feels like so much has happened since I last wrote on the blog. I’d love to fill you in on my third year at SCO. It’s been a very exciting year and so many new things have begun. The most exciting of those new things is that I began seeing patients in The Eye Center. Of course, I had spent some time shadowing in The Eye Center during second year but this has been the real deal. As third-year students at SCO, we spend three days a week in the clinic. One of... Read More

Hi everyone! A lot has been going on in my second year of optometry school. I have to say, it’s been a very exciting, yet very challenging year. The courses have been extremely rigorous, but at the same time, the material has been much more clinically relevant and therefore, it’s been a little easier to study for. One of the exciting parts about second year is that we’ve been shadowing fourth-year students in the clinic, as well as participating in school screenings... Read More

Hey there readers! Today I'd like to share with you about the individuals who influenced me to choose optometry as my profession of choice. It's funny because I have been wearing glasses since I was in the third grade but I never really considered optometry as a profession until I was in my last few years of my undergraduate career. Prior to attending the University of Central Florida, I knew I wanted to go into health care because I had an interest in science and to... Read More

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Time flies!!! First Year is officially over and it was seriously amazing! I just can't believe it's already over. However, I am so excited for this summer ahead. I'm not sure if you're aware but the end of first year is the only summer that you really have off. Second and third year summer consist of working in clinic and externships. Which does sound like fun to me but it also sounds wonderful to have a break for... Read More