The Illinois College of Optometry Student Blog

This exact time last year was extremely stressful and challenging. Alongside working a full-time job and studying for the OAT, I was also...

Once you decide on optometry as your future career, you may start to wonder, “What are my next steps? How can I prepare myself to become...

As I prepare for my first year at ICO, I’ve been reflecting a lot on how I got here. About a year before I began applying to optometry...

I’m two months into my summer break, and it still has yet to hit me: I actually finished my first year of optometry school. At times, it...

I knew wherever I was going to optometry school, my dogs Zeb(3) and Tulip(2) were coming along for the ride. So, I took them into...