High Five For Friday

Oh my goodness, you guys don't know how glad I am that it's FRIDAY!!! (see #4).  Linking up again with Lauren at From My Grey Desk for five highlights of the week. Here we go!

1.  Labor Day weekend in Luverne, AL means boiled peanuts!  I. love. them.  If you live there and don't get them, you should be ashamed of yourself.  I think I would drive all the way home just for peanuts. Thankfully, we also got to visit with our parents and then my side of the family on Monday.

2.  Jesse had two exams this week on electrical and mechanical engineering related stuff through his training at work and aced both of them.  And by aced I mean triple digits, 100!  He's so smart!

(totally horrible picture of me, please do ignore that)

3.  I had lunch with my old friend and study-buddy from Auburn today. (Hey Joe!)  It was great catching up with him.  He's in medical school just two buildings down from mine and we haven't seen each other until today!  He's going to be a great doctor! Like, the best.

4.  This week was my first crazy week of optometry school with 2 exams, 1 quiz, and a lab.  We were all stressing out because we had no idea what to expect out of our teachers on exams, but they both turned out to be much better than expected.  So with that said, I've survived my first exams and am alive to... study another day! Yay!

5. A few more things I've learned through the week: a little bit about rods and cones (they capture light that hits your retina...if only it were that simple); pathways of signal transduction of the nervous system to cells that make your tears; the thickness of your cornea and the collagen structure that it's made up of; and nutrition classes have paid off big time - that last box shows the process of glycolysis (carbohydrate breakdown).  I'm pretty sure we are going to cover a whole year's worth of my nutrition class in a week!