We're now back to the grind again, with a whole new set of challenges ahead of us. This is only the first week and we are starting to get really busy already! We have a full schedule with lots of assignments thrown at us. Here are the classes that we are taking this quarter (a total of 21.75 units!!!):

- Ocular Pharmacology: we will learn about all sorts of drugs used for the eye in the OD scope

- Biostatistics & Research Design: part of the SCCO graduation requirement is to complete a research project, and this class will fill us in on how to design such a project

- Case Analysis and Prescribing II: lots of various topics regarding cases, including hyperopia, presbyopia, etc.

- Ocular Disease Diagnosis and Management I: the name says it all. This class is supposedly one of the most rigorous classes at SCCO - it is not a class to be taken lightly because there have been many people in the past who have had to remediate this class.

- Cornea and Contact Lens II: a continuation of what we learned last quarter, including toric RGP lenses, and soft contact lenses (both sphere and toric).

- Management of Non-Strabismic Binocular Vision Conditions: it's basically our first vision therapy class - I'll tell you more about it later since I don't know much about it right now.

- Optometric Clinical Service IV: we will be seeing our first non-student patients this quarter - we have to bring a friend or relative and give them a full, comprehensive primary eye care exam!

Stay posted for another exciting quarter here at SCCO...!