Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students, Research in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Sep 13th, 2012
Welcome back, everyone! This is my first blog post for the new school year, so I just want to tell you a little bit about my summer. As the title of this post suggests, I spent 78 days here at USC through a generous grant from the Rose Hills Foundation, continuing the research that I [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Uncategorized, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Sep 10th, 2012
The year was 1771. In what is now San Gabriel, California, a menacing group of armed Tongva Native Americans approached a group of Spanish missionaries and soldiers. A bloody battle seemed inevitable. But of the padres unrolled a painting of “Our Lady of Sorrows” (La Dolorosa) for all to see, and the natives were so [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife on Sep 4th, 2012
One of the coolest differences between high school and college is that the range of topics to study in college is HUGE compared to high school. Obviously we still have the basics – math, science, language arts, social studies – but there is so much more. My personal favorite is pop culture. There’s actually a [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife on Aug 29th, 2012
One of the classes I was most excited for this semester was Developmental Psychology. The professor (Frank Manis) has been around for a long time, and has contributed to the teaching of developmental psych in a huge way. In fact, he’s currently writing a textbook for the course, so half of our reading comes from [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Apr 21st, 2012
Hey everyone! As faithful readers of this blog will be aware, I recently got a position as a research assistant in Professor Qin’s lab. About a month and a half or so ago, Dr. Qin encouraged me to make a poster and present at the Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry, which [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Mar 12th, 2012
We all joke about those silly safety packets and lectures we are forced to sit through before we take a science course, before we enter a science laboratory, before every experiment in lab… it never ends. We laugh, we mock, we don’t pay attention. But, guys, let’s get real. We’re in college now. We’re not [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Mar 10th, 2012
Sometimes, I feel like I’m ALWAYS on campus. It’s like I never leave the confines of SC’s gates. Campus is great and all, but being from Seattle, I do want to explore California since it’s so different from where I grew up. I found a way to see some of the most interesting parts of [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife on Feb 20th, 2012
In my last blog, What’s Your Passion?, I told you all about my research methods class and about how I’m supposed to be coming up with a research project based on my passions. I mentioned that I was interested in a few different things: music, relationships, and depression. My process for choosing between the three [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife on Feb 20th, 2012
Last semester, I was lucky enough to get into a fascinating Arts and Letters (one of the General Education categories at SC) class called “Happiness and the Human Condition”, taught by Susan Lape. In this class, we considered happiness from the point of view of the Ancient Greeks, from the perspective of positive psychologists, and [...]
Posted in Academic Life in USC Dornsife, Research in USC Dornsife on Feb 10th, 2012
Hello everyone! Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted… I managed to misplace the link, and my password, and you know how school catches up to you and you don’t even realize it until it’s too late already. >.< Well just a few weeks ago I got a position as a research assistant in [...]