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Monday, May 30, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
End of 2nd year!
I will write up a post about my 2nd year experiences in a bit.
But for now, I can't believe we just finished our 2nd year of optometry school. We are halfway to OD!
Now I'm off to California for a one week summer break and next week we will start independent patient care 2x a week plus a specialty rotations. For summer quarter, I will have 5 weeks of cornea and contact lenses in the 2nd half of the quarter. I'm excited to start seeing more patients in clinic because this is what I came here for.
But to start off summer break, let me just say it is SOOO bad for me to come back to California. Because all I do is eat food. -__-
Here are some of my latest photo adventures along with some of my personal touch up.
But for now, I can't believe we just finished our 2nd year of optometry school. We are halfway to OD!
Now I'm off to California for a one week summer break and next week we will start independent patient care 2x a week plus a specialty rotations. For summer quarter, I will have 5 weeks of cornea and contact lenses in the 2nd half of the quarter. I'm excited to start seeing more patients in clinic because this is what I came here for.
But to start off summer break, let me just say it is SOOO bad for me to come back to California. Because all I do is eat food. -__-
Here are some of my latest photo adventures along with some of my personal touch up.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Optometry School Break Adventures
After winter quarter, I decided to stay in Chicago during the break week. I had my clinic and dispensing shift on Monday and I was redoing my practical on Wednesday. After finally passing my retake my Wednesday, I decided to do some exploring in the city. That night, me and my roommate went to visit Palmer's House in Chicago. We had a early dinner/high tea at Potter's Lounge inside the hotel.
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| Palmer's Hilton House |
At Potter's lounge, we made it in time for Happy hour! We tried the cheese and meat platter, tacos, and a dessert with brownie and ice cream! We also got apple ciders to top it off.
After that, we walked to Harold Washington Library and explored the 11 stories in the library. And then we walked back up to North side of Chicago to grab more desserts at Eataly before meeting up with other friends to watch Deadpool at the AMC theatre.
At Eataly:
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On Saturday, we went out to get dinner at Shake Shack and then got more tea at this fancy cafe called Pierot Gourmet!
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Hump day for an optometry student
Today is my longest day. I have 4 hours of lecture from 9-1pm. Then I have lab that starts at 1:30 and ends at 5:20pm. During my 30 minutes lunch time, I walk briskly home (luckily my apartment is only a 3 minute walk from campus) and fix up my pre-cooked microwavable meal. I get ready to go back to campus by 1:30 for class.
Today we have ocular physiology and optometry lab. Ocular Physiology lab was fun today. For the first part of the lab, we just answered questions about different cases. For the last part of lab, we played jeopardy using material from ocular physiology/optometry/anatomy etc, basically everything we ever learned so far was applicable. I'm actually thankful I ended up in a majority guys group. Although being with guys has their own disadvantages, today I felt like being in a predominantly male group was good. The guys are more carefree and like "friendly competition". There was another predominantly male group across the room from us and the guys were jokingly trying to "mess" each other up and give wrong answers. (I mean, everyone's smart, I doubt anyone "fell" for it). I feel like this contrasts doing group activities with a bunch of girls where everyone is quiet and independently looking up answers. I mean, that's nice too, but it's also nice to be able to just laugh and joke with guys who are willing to make themselves the center of jokes. Sometimes we get so caught up with trying to study and remember all the little details about school so we can pass our classes/prepare for boards/be better optometrists, but this is just a little reminder that once in a while it's ok to just make fun and laugh it off! I mean, I didn't really take notes of the information during the jeopardy game (I should have), but why does it matter if I'm not a good student once in a while?
Today we have ocular physiology and optometry lab. Ocular Physiology lab was fun today. For the first part of the lab, we just answered questions about different cases. For the last part of lab, we played jeopardy using material from ocular physiology/optometry/anatomy etc, basically everything we ever learned so far was applicable. I'm actually thankful I ended up in a majority guys group. Although being with guys has their own disadvantages, today I felt like being in a predominantly male group was good. The guys are more carefree and like "friendly competition". There was another predominantly male group across the room from us and the guys were jokingly trying to "mess" each other up and give wrong answers. (I mean, everyone's smart, I doubt anyone "fell" for it). I feel like this contrasts doing group activities with a bunch of girls where everyone is quiet and independently looking up answers. I mean, that's nice too, but it's also nice to be able to just laugh and joke with guys who are willing to make themselves the center of jokes. Sometimes we get so caught up with trying to study and remember all the little details about school so we can pass our classes/prepare for boards/be better optometrists, but this is just a little reminder that once in a while it's ok to just make fun and laugh it off! I mean, I didn't really take notes of the information during the jeopardy game (I should have), but why does it matter if I'm not a good student once in a while?
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Also, 2 weekends ago, I decided to attend the Illinois Optometric Association convention with my classmate. It took 1 1/2 hours to get there even though it was only 30 miles because of all the heavy traffic. The school provided us free registration fee and 1 free night from Friday to Saturday. It only costed us time to be attend and $40 round trip each for the Uber ride. It was an interesting experience and I hope to attend another convention in the future. Maybe in a different state so I can sight see as well.
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