1st year of Optometry schoo--> COMPLETED!!!

It feels so wonderful to watch tv guilt-free!!!
These past two weeks of finals and proficiencies were rough, but managable.  I am so excited for Summer!!!! 
Thanks for following me through my first year! It only gets more challenging from here and I hope that you will follow me all the way to graduation!

Visual Acuity Project Madness!

Hey guys,

I forgot to include some photos from our visual acuity projects for our psychophysics class. We had to create our own VA charts, caluclate and size it accordingly, determine the patient population we wanted to design it for, determine the type of contrast sensitivity we wanted, the type of optotype (letters, numbers, symbols) we wanted to use, size, testing distances, illumination levels, etc. The list goes on! To summarize, making an acuity chart is not as easy as it looks. My partner and I made a near-vision acuity chart to screen for amblyopia in children under 6 years of age, with 90% contrast, at a testing distance of 75cm.

A Taste of SCCO Student Life

A apologize for being M.I.A with my blogs. We basically have no more reading week, because now it is basically 2 weeks of finals. We have a clinical methods proficiency on Monday, a neurophysiology lab practical ( I've never had to memorize so many neuronal pathways that i didn't even know existed!), and our first final, clinical medicine.  The week after we have ophthalmic optics, neurophysiology lecture, clinical methods, and psychophysics finals.  Doesn't sound intimidating for you? Don't worry, they guarantee that it will only get worse from here. First year, is suppose to be the simplest out of the first three years. :(  See you after finals!


Here is a great open house video summary of the student life here at SCCO. This video was presented at this year's Spring Admissions Open House. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33AINgoiU0