The Illinois College of Optometry Student Blog

Chicago’s Michigan Avenue is famously home to the Magnificent Mile, the city’s toniest shopping strip. Go five miles south on Michigan...

1. You start collecting everything that has an eye chart or glasses on it Even before hipsters or the “nerd look” became cool,...

So most students at ICO are taking finals right now. (As a fourth year, I’m done with all that.) I’d commiserate and cry tears of...

So you know that class in optometry school that you just never understood? The one that, despite your best and most earnest of efforts,...

“What did you study and how did you prepare to apply?” Across the roundtable from me sat a second year college student–wide-eyed, curious...