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Twitter Turns 10: Trojans’ First Tweets


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This past Monday, Twitter celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first-ever tweet. Since then, the microblogging site has grown to host over 320 million active users a month and employs 3,900 employees at over 35 offices around the world. Here’s a look back at the first tweets of USC’s favorite accounts. In 2012, Athletic Director Pat […]

Blind Dates: Behind the Blindfold


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Need help finding your soulmate? Have no fear, the Daily Trojan is here. College is a time of exploration — especially when it comes to love. We’ll be taking on Cupid’s role in bringing strangers together for an exciting blind date. What’s more — they’ll live to tell their sides of the story on our blog feature, Behind […]

The worth of my four years at USC


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Amid a national conversation on college affordability, and a recently proposed tuition hike here at USC, I feel it’s imperative to discuss the value of my education over the past four years. My courses at USC have undoubtedly given me skills to not only to put on my resume, but also to use for the career […]

Tech Tips of the Week: Facebook


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While I consider myself to be a pretty social media-addicted millennial, I’m constantly discovering new features on Facebook. It seems that new products are being launched on the platform everyday; Lyft and Uber integration, reactions and Facebook Live are all just 2016 developments. Here’s a roundup of three Facebook features I noticed recently that will […]

Ask Tiffany: DIY: Breaking the ice with a hottie


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I haven’t had a crush on anyone in like, centuries. But there’s this one guy at work that I’m stupid hung up on. We don’t work the same shift, I’ve only run into him a few times, and we barely know each other. How can I find an excuse to talk to him? We aren’t even […]

Real Friends in the Real World


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Let’s face it, going into freshman year you probably had no friends. The great thing about going into freshman year, though, is that no one else has any friends either  —  the handful of people from your high school and your roommate “bestie” that you met on Facebook don’t count. I distinctly remember the night […]

USC: First to FinTech


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USC alumni have done well in the Digital Age. From online dating with Tinder’s Sean Rad to cloud computing with Salesforce’s Marc Benioff to entertainment with Shonda Rhimes, there are Trojans leading the pack in a wide variety of modern industries. This year, Trojans are about to start being primed on the latest frontier: “FinTech,” […]