The Illinois College of Optometry Student Blog

For years, health professional students have been creating music video parodies. And for all those years of hard work and creative lyrics, the only award was the collective laugh of the very few people who understood the jokes laced within the healthcare jargon. Not anymore. This year, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine accepted submissions for the first annual Medical Emmy Awards (or Memmys)! Why do I bring this up?  Because I was able to participate in my c

We’re having our annual Eye Ball in a couple weeks at the Museum of Science and Industry: Kwong Yee Cheng/Creative Commons I think Eye Ball is one of the commonalities between optometry schools all over the world. My friends studying optometry in Canada, Hong Kong and Australia all have one. All the students and some faculty dress up in fancy clothes get together for a night of fun in between cramming for various tests and practicals. At the 2012 Eye Ball, in Navy Pier’s Crys