Cooking and Baking

So when I am not studying and thinking about Optometry....I think about food!  I am a big foodie!  I am learning to cook new dishes and coming up with new decorating ideas!  Here are some of my work that I wanted to share with you guys!

My very moist Strawberry Cupcakes with whipped buttercream frosting topped with crushed gram crackers and fresh strawberries.

My Pumpkin spice cupcakes. They are topped with whipped buttercream frosting with brown food coloring, candy corn, and 100 calorie Sandies Right Ones.

 

Peanut Butter cookies, rolled in sugar and cross- pressed with  a fork, and  traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Moist Strawberry Cupcakes with whipped marshmallow frosting, and chocolate whipped Hershey's frosting.

 

Mandarin Chicken and Beef with the help of Panda Express Mandarin Sauce.

Home made Sesame Chicken. I used Seasame oil, Sun Choy Soy Sauce,  garlic powder, onion powder, roasted sesame seeds, lean chicken breast, sugar and grounded black pepper.

 

Chicken Alfredo with linguini pasta.  I used Bertolli's Aged alfredo cheese sauce and lean chicken breast.  The pizza is sicilian pizza from CPK.

Home made friend rice.  I chopped the beef flank into cubes and marinated them in kikkoman soy sauce with onion powder and garlic powder and pepper.  I cracked an egg on the rice and threw in the beef and stirred. Adding more seasme oil or soy sauce accordingly.

Thanksgiving Break

Hello everyone! 

Yea! SCCO gives one whole week off for the Thanksgiving holiday!!!  This gives me time to catch up on tv, chores, studying, and time with friends.  I wish every one a Happy Thanksgiving !

Winter Quarter Classes

After being eased into Optometry school the SCCO way for our first quarter, I now enter the second quarter eager to learn.

Here are my classes for this quarter:

Visual Optics and lab
Public Health
Ocular Anatomy and lab
Optics II and lab
Anatomy and Physiology II and lab

It might not seem like a lot of classes...but each lab is a class in itself = 9 classes!

After the Eye Ball...began looking over some of my notes while it is still calm (no exams).  With Thanksgiving break next week, this will  give us three weeks without exams, wow!  When we get back from break we will have two exams per week  alternating with one exam every other week. What a way to welcome us back to the reality of which is called Optometry School!

The classes this quarter are definitely more interesting and related to the eye.  This makes class more exciting!  This is what you applied to optometry school for!  But then again, it is a lot more information to swallow then last quarter's lectures. So it is a give and take situation.

Currently, we are learning about the anatomy of the eye...from the very anterior to the very posterior, prism diopters, neurons, and public health.


I will try to post more pictures from lab for you guys! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to comment!

Eye Ball Photos

Hey guys!

As promised here are some Eye Ball photos!  My feet were killing me the whole night; my boyfriend and I took dancing breaks to give our feet rest between songs. It was nice to just hang out with everyone and see my classmates so stress free!  The food was delicious for what it was! We had roasted chicken herb and baked halibut!

Most of the first year girls!

Some of first year guys and first year girls' boyfriends

Our dinner!

FIRST QUARTER OF OPTOMETRY SCHOOL = COMPELETED!

I finished my last final today, practice management.  I think I did pretty well, even though it is a pass or fail course, I still put my best foot through the door!

Wow...it feels so great to do nothing. It feels wonderful to not study for anything. Unfortunately this renewed feeling will only last for a mere 2 days.  Winter quarter begins on Monday, but luckily we do not have any tests. However, there is our winter formal on Friday, The "EYE" Ball!!! 


I will post "EYE" ball photos for you guys on Sunday! Stay tuned!

Update

Hi guys!

Wow...what a week! The most intense week of studying I have ever had in my life. It is not over yet; I still have to more finals to complete.  I have never slept so late, consistently, to study in my life. Undergrad was a lot easier than optometry school for sure. At least in undergrad, your finals were spread out, at my University, and so you had breaks to rest.  My finals are consecutively scheduled. We had our three most difficult exams for the first three days. Not the content is difficult, but the volume of material, oh dear!  I am learning more about myself! I can handle these stressful situations mentally, but physically my body is starting to weaken dramatically. Because I have been sleeping around 4:30AM every night, I've developed a little bit of acid reflux :(. Not very fun.  But hopefully by Friday I can get back to my normal eating and sleeping schedule. 


I wanted to share a link with y'all about this little girl who died of cancer.  She wrote hundreds of little love notes to her parents and hid them.  The parents discovered all of her little notes after she had passed away. It is a very touching and sad article.

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/notes-left-behind.htm