This is how I Feel..

This is how I feel right now... the semester is getting too REAL. Every week is Crunch time and I'm getting tired of it. Don't mean to whine like a little baby, but whatever. I have to waste $75 more dollars to change my flight to go home later because I have a stupid proficiency on Monday after spring break and I need way more practice. Up until this point I have been thinking about how much better 2nd year is than 1st year, but the other week I felt myself missing being a 1st year. I'm just ready for the semester to be over, but before then I have 2 big proficiencies, one of them being my White Coat Proficiency and then finals... ugh!

So I posted my schedule and we have 2 real major classes... my Ocular disease (7 credits) and Binocular Vision (4 credits), then we have 2, two credit classes and a whole bunch of random 1 credit classes, but both those one credit classes are too much work and it is distracting from the important stuff...

So the things that I like about Optometry are also the stuff that is really killing me right now. It's cool that we get to learn a whole bunch of procedures and techniques and play around with lots of cool instruments. But all of the playing is done and we are expected to know how to do pretty much everything. So it's one thing studying for a test out of the book using notes/powerpoints and what not, but practicing procedures is like crazy. Especially since most of the stuff we are doing now requires having our eyes dilated. So basically you are switching off with your classmates being subjected to dilation and bright lights while your partner gets practice. 

 It is scary that in 2 months I will be seeing patients, like by myself. Yeah the preceptors will be there if you have questions, but for the most part you are expected to do most everything on your own. So in 2 months, I have to do know how to do everything perfectly and be comfortable with it. Basically let me put myself "on line" again... So i'm done complaining for now...

Until Next Time...