This week has not been great. I am not 100% sure why but I feel like all the pressure has been getting to me. Picking classes for next semester, trying to get jobs, not getting my work done, all of it has really been weighing on me. Unfortunately, this is part of college and especially part of college during a pandemic. The “fun” parts really seem to have gone away and all I am left with is remembering how great it used to be and how I am frustrated with myself for not being more on top of things. Making big choices is tough! All I want to do is go back to freshman year when I was still figuring things out and reaching out to professors and meeting new people. Now it’s making sure I have a good GPA and a job offer. This point in my life, a point of “transition”, is when I need support and besides my mom sending me laundry detergent I don’t feel like I have any. Zoom class makes me feel so detached and like nothing matters really. I want to be normal again, I want to run into my friends in the E-quad. I want to laugh walking away from KAP. I want my friends back. I want to hand in a homework assignment on paper. I want to not be nervous walking around. I want my life back. I love USC, I want my school back.

Cami Amein
MAJOR: Electrical and Computer Engineering YEAR: Class of 2021 HOMETOWN: Orlando, Florida PRONOUNS: she/her/hers INSTA: @cami_amein At USC I am in the progressive degree program and have worked as an undergraduate TA in linear algebra, an orientation advisor, and a research assistant. Outside of Viterbi, I am a dance minor and draw for an instagram comic.
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Cami Amein
MAJOR: Electrical and Computer Engineering
YEAR: Class of 2021
HOMETOWN: Orlando, Florida
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
INSTA: @cami_amein
At USC I am in the progressive degree program and have worked as an undergraduate TA in linear algebra, an orientation advisor, and a research assistant. Outside of Viterbi, I am a dance minor and draw for an instagram comic.
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