The Illinois College of Optometry Student Blog

I’ve been fortunate to use this blog as a platform to spotlight individuals at ICO who have inspired me in some way and who have...

Preparing for the big move to Chicago a year ago, I had no idea I would finish my first year of optometry school in my house in the midst...

This past week, I had the opportunity to sit down with ICO’s very own “@_eyedealistic,” a.k.a. Jackie Nguyen. Jackie is a second-year...

This past month, we got introduced to the skill of refraction, a big component of an optometrist’s job! I was extremely excited to learn...

This month, resilience was a recurrent theme that kept emerging from different people and situations at ICO. Resilience is defined as the...