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    My Freshman Housing: New/North
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    / February 18, 2013 / Leave a comment
    Living on the second floor of New North definitely made my Freshman year a great experience. I met so many new people and was always in and out of everyone’s room. Our floor was co-ed, so I was always bumping into guys and girls from class. And whenever I needed something, I knew I could just walk down the hall and ask! Because I didn’t know a single person when...

  2. My Freshman Dorm: Marks Hall
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    / February 17, 2013 / Leave a comment
    My freshman year I lived in Marks Hall when it was the honors dorm (you can read more about it here). I loved my small dorm community (it only had two floors), and am still close friends with some of the people from my dorm to this day. A lot happened to be engineers, so I usually run into them around RTH as well. I loved being around McCarthy Quad,...

  3. My Freshman Dorm: Pardee Tower
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    / February 17, 2013 / Leave a comment
    As I wrote about last year, I lived in Pardee Tower as a Freshman. I have so many fond memories of this building and met so many great people during my year living on the eighth floor (AKA the Pardee Penthouse!). Sometimes I wish I could go back! It was so close to everything. Pardee is located right on McCarthy Quad, where so many fun things take place like Conquest and...

  4. My Freshman Dorm: Parkside International Residential College
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    / February 16, 2013 / Leave a comment
    My Freshman year, I lived in Parkside IRC. I lived in a 5 person, 4 room suite. Three of us had our own rooms and two others shared a larger room. There was a desk, bed, dresser, microwave/fridge combo, and closet in my room. I was particularly pleased with the high ceilings since lower ones make me feel sort of claustrophobic. We shared two large restrooms and there was never conflict...

  5. My Freshman Dorm: Birnkrant
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    / February 16, 2013 / 2 Comments
    Hey y’all, No matter what the college, one of the biggest questions/concerns freshman have are where they are going to live freshman year. Coming from Missouri, I literally had no idea about the dorm scene at USC or which one was “best” or whateva so I spent time googling the different dorms trying to figure out where I wanted to live. Fret no more, though, as the VSA’s are here...

  6. My Freshman Dorm: Parkside Arts and Humanities
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    / February 16, 2013 / Leave a comment
    I lived in Parkside Arts and Humanities my freshman year!  Parkside consists of 3 buildings, 2 of which are primarily freshman housing.  The two freshman dorms are Arts & Humanities (A&H), and International Residential College (IRC).  IRC’s name is a little misleading; there are domestic AND international students that live there. These two buildings are suite style; each suite consists of either guys or girls, but there are suites of...

  7. My Sophomore (now Freshmen) Housing: Webb Tower
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    / February 16, 2013 / Leave a comment
    So Freshman year, I had a great time living in Birnkrant, as many of my fellow VSAs did. Like Steve and Makana, I lived on BK4, the best place to live on campus (in my humble opinion of course). I haven’t visited Birnkrant since it became the honors dorm last year, but I’m sure it continues to be a fantastic place to live. Check out my blog on it from...

  8. My freshman dorm: Birnkrant
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    / February 15, 2013 / 1 Comment
    Oh, freshman year.  There’s nothing quite like the sense of wonderment, confusion, and non-stop fun that comes from going to college for the first time.  I will always remember that year fondly. Nothing give you more nostalgia for that time than seeing your freshman dorm rising up above campus (mine, at least did).  I can’t fully describe the feelings I get when I pass by Birnkrant, my old haunting grounds,...

  9. My Freshman Housing Experience – Pardee Tower
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    / February 15, 2013 / Leave a comment
    Last year, I wrote a little blog about how I spent my freshman year in Pardee tower, check it out! http://viterbivoices.usc.edu/emily/my-freshman-dorm-pardee/ I thought I’d just add a couple more thoughts in reflection and nostalgia. While sharing a room does kind of suck, I recommend it for at least your first year in college, especially in a dorm where everyone is out running down hallways, making friends and memories. I was...

  10. My Freshman Dorm: Marks Tower
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    / February 15, 2013 / Leave a comment
    Living in Marks Tower during my freshman year were some of the most memorable time I have had since being at USC. I met someone great people who I still stay in contact with today and had some many great memories. Marks Tower made my transition to USC from the east coast a pretty easy one. Marks Tower had separated floor by gender but floors never seemed distant. Marks Tower...
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