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Winter Break!

Hello readers!

Happy Holidays to you and your families!  Sorry I have been M.I.A for three weeks.  These past three weeks have been nonstop exams for me.  I've two every week since I came back from Thanksgiving break! I love winter quarter because of all of the breaks, but then this can also be a bad thing! It feels so weird not studying for anything. I find myself reading my "Review of Optometry", magazines that all of the students subscribe to for free at the beginning of the school year.  It is so exciting to read because I now know 20% of the terminology being used in the articles! I feel so much smarter!  You will understand when you are in my shoes.  It is a wonderful feeling! 

I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by. I remember when I was just a nervous applicant!!!!  Here I am now...a stressed student, LOL. 

Hello December

Hi guys!

Well I've been back at school for one week now, and I have already taken 2 exams.  I have four more exams to go; two each week until Christmas break.  I have never been so tired and energetic in my life.  The lectures are becoming more interesting as we learn more in depth about the eye. 

Ocular Anatomy
In ocular anatomy so far we have learned, in depth, about the fibrous tissue of the eye. This tissue contains two parts, the cornea and the sclera.  It is a lot more detailed than that, but it was interesting!  I loved it! 

Optics II
We are learning about sphero-cylindrical lenses currently. Very interesting; things are starting to make more sense! 

Visual Optics
Today we learned about 3 different types of astigmitism and how to identify it by looking at a given spherical value, cylinder value, and its axis, if any.


Our eye models are displayed in the library now!!! If you guys are interviewing or visiting the campus, please check out our eye models!!!

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!