It’s hard to quantify experiences, to take the nuances and complexities of an experience, and boil them down to one word. Describing the Helenes is easy, but also difficult— I could say that to me, Helenes is a wonderful organization, a life-changing organization, and a supportive organization. But then Helenes would become one of many things that fall under that sort of general category of supportive, wonderful, life-changing things. This isn’t to say that category isn’t imp

From the collection of the Disney Channel Original Movies, Cheetah Girls has to be one of my favorites. The movie was not only fantastic in 2006, but the soundtrack was even better. It’s about a four teenage girls from New York and their journey to become singing superstars. It’s been a while since I’ve watched the movie, but I’ll never forget the song, “Amigas Cheetahs, Friends For Life” from Cheetah Girls 2. “Someone who lets you be yourself There when you need help They’ve

Crusher: Valerie Johnson. On Mehr: “Mehr is who I want to be! She is so sweet, caring, funny, smart, and beautiful inside and out. She has great style too. I love getting to talk to her about anything. I’m lucky to live in the room next to her! :)” Cayla Yasukochi: Hi! So please introduce yourself and tell us, you know, your basic stuff--your name, major, year, hometown, etc. Mehr Sikri: Okay! I’m Mehr, I’m a senior, rosebud semester Fall ‘15, I’m from--well, I don’t really k

Wow!! Where do I start…Helenes has changed so many things about my life, but one thing specifically that it has changed was how I view myself. Upon coming to USC I have always had a strategic plan of what my life was going to be. Graduate from high school in the top 10 percentile then get admission into USC , and then you will go to USC & love, then get a great career from there and it will be set. However, when I arrived at USC it was really hard for me. In all aspects it wa