The Illinois College of Optometry Student Blog

This is a breakdown of what ICO’s class of 2020’s choice of majors was in undergrad. You’ll find similar figures on other optometry school’s websites Odds are, if you pick a random OD student and ask them what they majored in during undergrad, the answer is going to be “biology” or a type of health science. For most OD students, it’s obvious why this is the case. A lot of potential OD students find science interesting (shocker, huh?) Also, on the practical side, most of the o

Our textbook When the list of class electives came out, I looked right away for the Spanish class. I’ve been excited to take it since I enrolled at the Illinois College of Optometry. I’ve always imagined myself moving back home, and one of the neighborhoods in the Twin Cities (Minn.) has a huge Hispanic population (I wrote my Spanish thesis on this very neighborhood.) At first, the class wasn’t open to 2nd years. I figured it was a sign that I needed to pay attention to my ac

Hola mi nombre es Siva! (Pido disculpas por mi terrible español) Yes, darlings–now that I’m at my second externship site where I’m fortunate enough to be learning Spanish on the fly, it’s time to brandish the big guns and start putting my money where my mouth is. Let’s be real, Spanish is probably one of the most musical languages in the world. Everything sounds better in Spanish, like you’ve just sipped a delicious margarita or something. It helps that I have a tenuous grasp