Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students on Oct 6th, 2012
Greetings World! Adam here, back from months of absolute craziness! Besides a busy end to freshmen year, I was also an Orientation Advisor this past summer and got to help all kinds of incoming students transition to USC! But with freshmen year and the summer behind me, it’s time to begin a new chapter in [...]
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 Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students on Apr 4th, 2012
Starting off college can be difficult. We scramble to make acquaintances and to be friendly. Then there’s the challenge of navigating the 50-acre campus. No one tells you to clean your room or to eat your vegetables, which slowly pushes us into the ramen diet and piles of stinking laundry that we just don’t know [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students on Apr 3rd, 2012
Hey everyone! This post is not about academics in USC Dornsife. This post is not about any class I’ve taken, or any presentation I’ve seen recently. This post is not about community service, or about research, or about any kind of scholarship. This post is about ninjas. Last Sunday (which happened to be April Fools [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students on Mar 10th, 2012
Some people leave a bigger impact on your life than others. One group I will never forget is the Explore kids that I had over the past few weeks. The last ones taught me how to ride a bike! After 19 years of having no clue how to make a bicycle work, I can now [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students on Mar 10th, 2012
In college, you’re supposed to get involved. Being active helps you meet people and gives you unique experiences. This semester, I was thinking about trying something new, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. For the first few weeks I pretty much shopped around seeing what I’d be interested in. I’d drop by [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Mar 5th, 2012
When you think of retreating, you think about people running away from their problems, right? When I think of retreating, I think about all the amazing times I have been able to attend retreats thanks to my participation in various USC groups and organizations. Yup, I did turn the noun “retreat” into a new-age verb: [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students, USC Dornsife Students in Los Angeles on Feb 24th, 2012
This isn’t a poem, so I guess it technically can’t be labeled an “ode,” but the point is that public transportation (and safety, but that comes later) deserves a round of applause. Before coming to college I had always been concerned about how I would be able to get around without a car if I [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students, USC Dornsife Ambassador Intros on Feb 20th, 2012
Hey everyone! Let me let you in on a little secret – and by “little secret” I mean “something that I tell everyone, but they always act shocked anyway.” I am a dancer. And not like a hip-hop dancer, either; I do traditional Chinese dance. This always seems to surprise people for reasons I can’t [...]
Posted in Campus Life for USC Dornsife Students, Civic Engagement through USC Dornsife on Feb 8th, 2012
Oh hello, everyone! Here’s a quick update on what life these days is looking like for me. I’m still enjoying my time as a Resident Advisor, taking a class to prepare to be an Orientation Advisor this summer, and obviously loving my role as a Dornsife Ambassador! Something new, however, is that I am currently [...]