The Illinois College of Optometry Student Blog

This past week we had a Pharmacology exam with only about 1,000 drugs to know. One of the drugs we reviewed was dopamine, because some drugs can cause Parkinsonism tremors as a side effect. We also reviewed what causes Parkinson’s Disease and how to treat it, as well as where it occurs. This blog isn’t about all the drugs we had to study or how dopamine works. It’s about why every time I hear “Parkinson’s,” I’m reminded of my first real experience with the disease, and my fir

Two weeks down, nine weeks to go. It’s certainly too early to be counting down spring quarter, the last of my second year. But I can’t help it! Once the quarter is over, my classmates and I will be halfway done with our education at ICO and even closer to reaching our visionary goals. But let’s backtrack a bit and talk about what’s been going on here so far. When winter quarter ended in mid-February and numerous sighs of relief were expelled at the end of our last final, all

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Um, or not. Since I’m a second year, I’ve now had two birthdays at ICO… both of which have been clouded by exams. Last year wasn’t so bad. Our third optics exam of the winter quarter fell on my birthday and was at 8 a.m., as all of our midterm exams are. So, I was able to get that out of the way, answer all of the phone calls from out-of-town family and friends, and take time to stalk people on Facebook to see who was paying attention to me on my gloriou