In the next two weeks I will complete my junior year and will officially be a senior in college. (WHAT?!). While the feeling of entering my senior year is daunting, it has also forced me to reflect upon my USC career thus far. More importantly, it has forced me to consider what graduating a year from now as a USC Trojan would really mean. It is almost an understatement to say that I take great pride in being a USC student because of how much this school means to me. There are

I’d be lying if I said that service isn’t what drew me to the Helenes. Throughout my upbringing, my parents made sure that serving became an integral part of who I was. One way I did this was in my high school where I was an active peer buddy. That means I worked with many students who were both physically and mentally handicapped in class and other activities. Once I got here to USC, I continued my volunteerism and jumped right into tutoring, but I saw a gap in service to

Helenes is the reason I did not transfer out of USC—and for that, I am grateful. My first few years at USC was rough—moving from east to west coast, not knowing anyone, and coming from a high school of 74 kids, I felt completely lost. I felt alone, I felt confused, and I was also having some health issues, so it felt like everything was crashing and burning around me, and there I was, in the center of it all, alone. I went on a Global Brigades trip the spring of my sophomore

A Thank You Letter to The Most Supportive Group of People I Have Ever Met Dear Helenes, The night before my MCAT, I was in a Las Vegas hotel room with a fever of 102 degrees. In addition to the normal anxiety everyone has about a 7.5 hour medical school entrance exam, I had to worry about the possibility that a temporary cold might negate six months of sitting in the Doheny bookstacks, waking up for early morning study sessions, and missing out on football game days. Miserabl

Crusher: Mehr Sikri. On Piper: “Piper is just AMAZING. She’s an incredible person and she’s always looking amazing and killing it at everything. Literally everything!” Cayla Yasukochi: Hey! So first of all, could you please tell us all the typical stuff, like your major, your year, your rosebud class… Piper Nylen: Yeah! My hometown is Boulder, Colorado, and I am a senior at Marshall, so I’m getting a Business Administration degree, and I have this performance science minor in