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Tips on Coming Back from a School Break

When you’re in optometry school, breaks are an amazing and much-needed time to wind down, catch up on sleep, and spend time with family. However, coming back from a break can be challenging: you already know that you’ll be facing another intense semester and that you’ll have to cut into those favorite activities that you …

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Drink From Your Resource Cup, You’ll Feel Less Empty

The demands of Optometry school can leave you feeling like you have to be a superhero to be successful. You can day-dream about freezing time or being a brainiac but the reality is that superheroes only exist in movies. It’s not atypical to feel overwhelmed and  overworked. When you focus too much time on your …

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Dr. Kestenbaum’s Advice To Optometry Students

Here is an article about transitioning from student to practitioner and to offer my advice for optometry students. – Dr. Kestenbaum First, let me tell you a little bit about myself.  After falling inlove with Boston on a brisk March day in 1976, the day of my interview at the New England College Of Optometry …

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