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USC students returned from Spring Break yesterday. Of course, this wasn’t to our beloved E-Quad and trusty Engineering Computing Center, but instead to a virtual campus hosted through the meeting platform, Zoom. As many of you may know, USC and universities across the country have removed to remote instruction to allow proper social-distancing and to stop the spread of COVID-19. …
As an engineering student, schedules fill up quickly. Between six classes, research, design teams, and of course podcasting, I often look at my calendar for the day and I don’t even have 30 minutes free. When my classmates pull up their calendars, it looks about the same. There’s a lot to take part in at USC, and it’s the nature …
I hope you all had the chance to watch USC’s 45-20 win against Stanford last night. The Trojans’ performance didn’t just push our team to a ranking of 24 in the AP poll, but also represented the return of what we know Trojan football to be (for me at least). The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the iconic home stadium of …
This summer, I had the pleasure of interning at Microsoft. While many of you may think of Microsoft as a software company, they have an entire group dedicated to hardware called Microsoft Devices. Microsoft Devices has mechanical engineers working on anything from the design of Surface products to the testing of HoloLens. I worked as a Devices Program Management Intern …
Last Monday, the Viterbi Voices podcast released our newest series: Engineering Impact, which focuses on groups and people in Viterbi applying engineering for social good. In the first episode, I spoke with several students from CAIS++, USC’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society’s Student Branch, which is an undergraduate group on campus developing AI applications for social good. Lucas and …
The past two weeks before spring break have been filled with midterms, problem sets, quizzes, research and a lot of exciting things outside of school! Last week, I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain with all the other Viterbi Student Ambassadors. I have never liked rollercoasters, so Six Flags isn’t typically part of my weekend plans. The VSA trip to …
Many USC students take Presidents’ Day weekend as an opportunity to visit home or travel elsewhere. While I was tempted to book a ticket back home to Colorado to ski this weekend, two midterms and an essay due this coming week made going home a less realistic option for me. Instead, I stuck around the LA area, but (as usual) …
Winter break in college offers something I know I will rarely find elsewhere: little to no responsibilities. I savored almost four weeks with no alarms, meetings, assignments, quizzes, exams, and (fewer) emails. The feeling of waking up and thinking what can I do today rather than what do I need to do today provided me with the respite I needed from …
The year has flown by, and I can’t believe we only have one more week of classes left. This semester has been busy, exciting, fun, and undoubtedly the most challenging semester I have had yet USC. The reality is, of course, that engineering majors are difficult and time consuming (for most at least). Add research, work, and a few extracurriculars …
Many of you have probably noticed that midterm season at Viterbi is well underway. While not the most enjoyable part of college, test taking constitutes a necessary and sizable part of any student’s academic life. That being said, it’s important not to allow studying to consume your whole life. For me, one of the best ways to relieve some ~midterm stress~ …
Many of you are probably reaching the point in the college application season that you are selecting — from a large dropdown list on the Common Application — the major you would like to study for the next four years. At a certain point, I was deciding between a BFA in sculpture, a B. Arch (architecture), and a BS in …
Deciding if and where to attend college is a difficult and important decision for any high school senior. As many of you begin to prepare your college applications, you are probably starting to think about what kind of schools you would like to attend, and maybe you are even assembling a list of attributes you want in a school. To …
When considering colleges to apply to, I sought out schools with strong academic programs that still had dynamic social environments. For me, the social aspect of school meant an enriching arts community, school spirit, and Greek life. USC, of course, is widely known for its student body’s participation in all these areas. I wanted each of these things in a …
We are just finishing up the fourth week of school, and I can confidently say that summer has reached its end. I had a busy summer travelling around Europe, studying in Florence with Viterbi, and finally meeting my friends in Chicago to attend Lollapalooza. This was exhausting, challenging, and the most fun I could have ever had. While my whirlwind …
For seven weeks this summer, I was lucky enough to be one of about 40 students in the Viterbi Summer Abroad program, which takes a handful of USC students and professors to a city in Europe. This year, it was held in Florence, Italy, where we took classes and engaged in relevant cultural experiences. As usual, four classes were offered: …
One of the biggest challenges my first semester was adjusting my sleep schedule to college life. In high school, my schedule was pretty routine: I woke up every morning at 6 to go to school and was typically home by 9 from all my activities. With this in mind, I could plan times to do homework throughout the day, and …
One of the things I miss the most about high school and being home is eating dinner with my family. For 18 years of my life, I attended family dinner almost nightly. It was so important to me to come home and unwind over a shared meal, hearing about my sister and parent’s days and telling them about mine. While …
One of the highlights of my freshman year was being involved in the USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, which is USC’s entirely student-run undergraduate research laboratory determined to send a rocket to space. We are currently working on our third attempt at reaching space with a vehicle called Traveler III. The group has been designing and testing this rocket for many …