Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Civic Engagement through USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Feb 19th, 2013
Community Service. What does that mean to people? I have always felt that many people think of it as just a requirement for college or for a resume. There are very few people have I volunteered with who I think really appreciate or enjoy this type of work. My most recent great community service project [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Civic Engagement through USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Jan 25th, 2013
Hello World, Yes, I know. I’ve been neglecting the blogging life for quite awhile, but here I am again! I wanted to tell you all about the amazing organization I’m part of here at USC. It’s called Global Medical Brigades. To be honest, here at USC we have all the branches of the global brigades; [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Oct 28th, 2012
One of the things I have looked forward to the most about college is the opportunity to study abroad. I started my investigation freshman year at the Study Abroad Fair, picking up pamphlets and talking with former program participants. There are so many different programs to choose from that when it came time for me [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Jun 18th, 2012
It is hard to believe I have only been in Haikou for three weeks. That first day seems so long ago! Last weekend Jennifer, Jenny, Alexandra, and I headed down to Sanya on the southern coast of the island to spend the night there. It felt like how Haikou might in 10 or 15 years, [...]
Posted in Research in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Jun 11th, 2012
Have you ever recovered from a fourteen-hour time change? It’s awful. Really – for almost a week, I was stuck falling asleep at 5 a.m. and waking up at one. But for three more weeks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I’d hop back on a plane tomorrow. That’s right – I just got back from Kazakhstan! I [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Jun 4th, 2012
I’m back in the land of sun and surf after an amazing semester in Paris! Choosing to study abroad at Sciences Po was definitely one of the best decisions of my life. Living in a different country and speaking a different language was a little hard at first, but after a while it all [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on May 25th, 2012
“Oh. My. God!” “That is so cool!” “It’s HUGE!” “AHHHHH!” Those are some of the things you hear people screaming while they are in a narrow metal barred cage submerged in great white shark infested waters. When you see arguably the scariest animal in the world swimming around you, you revert back to that [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on May 21st, 2012
This summer I have the opportunity to live and work in China for two months! I will be living and working at the Mission Hills Resort in Haikou, China. Haikou is on Hainan Island, which is the most southern province in China. I will be creating a marketing plan for the resort’s spa, which I [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Mar 21st, 2012
From the moment I met my first study abroad friend on the plane to the second I piled into the car to start the drive, everyone was talking about the Garden Route. All I knew was that this “route” consisted of driving along a beautiful stretch of coastline stopping in different towns famous for, basically, [...]
Posted in USC Dornsife Students Study Abroad! on Mar 20th, 2012
As a second semester sophomore, the inevitable question is beginning to pop up everywhere: “Are you going abroad?” Most of my friends have already decided when and where they want to go, and a few months ago I began to feel the sting of being left out of these discussions. I had always pretty much [...]