Boland, who is also an UMSL Optometry alumna, says she returned to school to pursue optometry in her mid-thirties, thanks in part to the experience of allowing a friend who was already going through the program to practice eye exams on her. This peaked her own interest, she began taking science classes and, before long, she was enrolled in the program herself.
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