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Navigating Your First Year as a USC Trojan
by Lanie Brice
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Navigating Your First Year as a Spring Admit
by Lanie Brice
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How to Balance Your Social Life During Finals
by Donal Buckley
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Study Tips and Habits to Get Through Finals Season
by Lauren Liang
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Got RTHM? Highlighting My Favorite Club on Campus
For most people, Sunday mornings are meant for rest and relaxation. But to a small subset of students at USC, including me, the start of the week means it’s time to put on a show. The students, identifiable by our instruments and matching T-shirts, are members of a club at USC called Remedy Through Music. This registered service organization, also called RTHM for short, is on a mission to bring live music to underserved communities here in southern Los Angeles.
Welcome Back Experience: Everything You Need to Know!
I hope everyone had a nice summer break! Just like the first day of classes is getting closer, so is the Trojan Welcome Experience! In the week before classes officially start, there’s new events every day to introduce you to the school, allow you to meet fellow Trojans, and celebrate the start of a new semester.
A Semi-Comprehensive List of Creative Clubs on Campus
By: Lauren Liang ‘23
Following up on my article, Getting Involved in the Arts as a Non-Arts Major, this is a semi-comprehensive list of creative clubs on campus, organized by discipline.
Meet Jackie Faye, Asian American Rapper
By: Claire Wong ‘23
Jackie Faye is an Asian American rapper from Dallas, Texas. She graduated USC with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Business Administration. Although she works as a data engineer during the day, she works in her free time to continuously grow her craft in the music industry.
That One Tuesday Night When I Hung Out with Felly
By: Lauren Brose ‘15
Chris Felner—stage name “Felly”— doesn’t enjoy school. The 20-year-old from Trumbull, Connecticut, admits he’s never been totally captivated in his classes because he feels it hinders his ability to create. The technicalities with pitch, tone, specific chords and notes being played isn’t a calculated process for Chris. Instead, he feels the music and goes what what makes sense to him. That’s what’s worked for him since he started to write music at the fleeting age of 14.