Scavenger Hunt

A tradition in optometry school is the annual Scavenger Hunt. As second year students, we take a big exam called the competency exam in January. During this exam we have to perform an eye exam on a randomly assigned first year student with a doctor watching and grading us. If you pass the competency test, it is one step closer to starting summer clinic as a third year. In celebration of passing competency, the third years plan the Scavenger Hunt for the second years. During the scavenger hunt the second years form teams and are given clues. You get a photo clue and a location clue. For the photo clue, you must determine what location/item the clue is talking about and get a picture of your whole group with that item or at that place. Then you must decipher the second clue and figure out what location the third years are waiting at. The locations are usually bars, and if you show up at the correct bar with the photo clue - you get points. Then there is usually a wacky optometry related challenge at the bar - such as throwing a ping pong ball into a bucket while wearing really strong powered glasses, or identifying high school pictures of our current professors. My team was called PALs, which is a good name because we are friends, but PALs also stands for Progressive Addition Lenses, so it is optometry related as well. We made team shirts, and the first photo here is the picture we put on our shirts. Our team members were: Kyle King and Julayne Miller (back standing), Sylvia Mishoulam, Eric Weigel (laying), and me, and in front Tim Hobbs, Lezlie Jones, and Carl Harder. Of course we all brought our significant others, so it ended up to be a pretty big group! There are a few pictures here that we took for the photo clues. Overall it ended up to be a super fun night! Can't wait until we get to plan Scavenger Hunt for next year's second years!