“Friendship is not about whom you’ve known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side” This week, at Rosebud meeting, we all shared our favorite quotes. In the spirit of quotes, I’ve decided to start off my blog post with a quote that shows how I feel about my fellow Rosebuds whom I’ve known for a total of eight weeks. Throughout the first few weeks of Rosebud semester, each conversation with another Helene included an excited “When is your retreat? You’re goin

The past two semesters I have been lucky enough to serve as Tutoring Chair for USC Helenes. As such, I am in charge of organizing the tutoring events we do at 32nd Street School, an LAUSD/USC magnet school right next to campus. For years now, on Wednesday mornings we have worked with a 3rd grade class of students, in small groups or individually, helping them with various Math or Reading Comprehension worksheets. After the student(s) finish, we play educational board games wi

The “fight on” spirit lives in every aspect of my life at USC, but I've never been prouder to be a Trojan than on gameday! Not only was the ASU game my first gate call, but it was also my first gameday, and it couldn't have been more amazing. Few other people can say that they were high-fived by Adoree Jackson, JuJu Smith-Schuster, and Tommy Trojan at their very first USC football game. I always loved cheering on my high school athletic teams to victory, but even becoming foo

“What is the Helenes?” my relatives ask. “Why is my mom’s name all over your Facebook wall?” asked my friend, who, coincidentally, has a mother named Helene. “Is the Helenes a sorority?” ask my friends back home. I love that people are curious, but in all honesty, it’s really hard for words to do justice to what the Helenes means to me. Of course, the Helenes is rooted in sisterhood, service, and spirit; but beyond that, what is the Helenes? That’s a big question I’ve been di

“U… S… See Ya!” If you have no idea what that means, then you have probably never been to a USC Volleyball game. I myself hadn’t been to one until a few weeks ago when Helenes went to the first Women’s Volleyball Game of the semester and cheered on our Women of Troy. I sat in the stands cheering, at some of the wrong moments but most of the right ones, and anxiously clutching the girls on either side of me during every intense play. Watching those girls battle it out on the c

Disclaimer: If you don’t like burritos, this will be hard to digest. Here’s my wrap about my time in Helenes! USC Helenes is like the loaded Chipotle Burrito with salty chips and extra Guac you need on your most packed class day at 5pm with a 10-minute window to get from one end of the campus to the other. I mean the energy and love that you get to tap into when you are part of the family revitalizes who you are and reshapes the weather of your own day. Warm Tortilla I rememb

The best part about memories with my "Little Big" Linda is making them... I call my Big Linda my "Little Big" because by age, I'm older. But Linda is by far wiser than her years! There are so many times I would confide in her whenever I needed to talk about something, and she always seems to know exactly what to say. Linda was one of the first people I met during recruitment, and we just hit it off! They say that music is a universal language, and for our first meeting, our l

If I could compare the anticipation of big little reveal night to anything else, I would say it’s kind of like the anticipation of waiting for…. a blind date to arrive? (At least I think?! Pretty much what I’m going to conclude from my extensive experience…. of watching romcoms). Before we met, I was able to gather some more intel about my future little (I promise it gets less creepy). We’re the same major, both pre-med, we absolutely adore Disney songs, our favorite colors a

When I think of Helenes traditions, what floods my mind is not rocking formal uniform the first Wednesday of every month, waking up early to put pom-poms on every single seat of the student section during Gatecall or handing out cookies on Trousdale to celebrate USC’s birthday October 6th of every year. The Helenes tradition that is most special to me is the unconditional love that emanates from every single Helene past and present. If you ask any Helene what drew them to the