What a day, it didn’t start out great. It had been a rough night, hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep.

So for months now, we’ve been working on a public health project in groups of 4-6 people. We basically have to do it to pass one of our classes, we had to come up with an original idea that would impact public health in the field of optometry. Our group decided to look at driver’s license renewals in the elderly population, we didn’t really feel like this was a very original idea so didn’t expect to win. They would mention that the top 3 posters would get travel grants of different amounts to go to the American academy of optometry’s annual conference to present their poster project. None of us ever paid attention to these announcements. And we ended up getting 3rd place, what a shock! We were all astonished/dumbfounded. We were told that the expressions on our faces were priceless.

I definitely was not expecting this, it hasn’t even really sunken in yet. I am really excited to go to TAMPA in October. It’s going to be a blast!

Despite having a rocky start, today turned out to be a pretty fun day.