Dear Reader, I have never stepped foot inside a USC classroom. Bummer, right? I toured ‘SC the summer before my senior year of high school and I knew it was where I needed to be in the fall of 2020. Fast forward to the spring of 2020, I was admitted to USC through a portal, not the white box I had expected, but nonetheless, I cried for a very, very long time. I bought the shirt on Depop that I had so desperately wanted to wear to my high school’s “College T-Shirt Day”. Alas,

Hello friends!! I’m Audrey Burba, Family Chair and Spring ‘20 rosebud! This is a story all about how I joined Helenes and my path to get there! I had the perfect vision of what my life would look like: graduate high school, get accepted and attend USC, secure a wonderful job before graduation, and continue on my perfect life path. Step 1 and 2, check! Step 3 is where the rocks got slippery. I had been admitted to USC (yay!!), but as a spring admit. This is where the first hur

It was 10pm on a random Wednesday night in September. Or was it October? Anyway. Rosebud meeting at the URC—specifically that room with the big windows that makes you feel like you’re sitting inside a goldfish bowl. I was on membership book committee. We sat cross-legged in a circle on the carpet, Trader Joe’s snacks scattered across the floor. I don’t remember who brought it up, but our conversation turned to narrowing down the list of questions we planned on asking Gen Mems