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Guide to Brentwood’s Country Mart


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As you enter Brentwood, you will immediately see a plethora of people walking around in their gym outfits (perhaps having just Soul-Cycled), or sipping coffee under a restaurant awning. Quaint little cafes and shops line the streets, and you can easily find places to grab a healthy snack. Brentwood is an affluent neighborhood characterized by […]

Staying Mentally and Physically Healthy This Semester


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“Stay Healthy” These words are printed in my own messy handwriting, and hung above my bed. But after weeks filled with too many midterms and too much coffee, I’m often tempted to ignore it. I’ve made it a point to devote anywhere from a few minutes to an hour each day to maintaining my physical […]

Ask Tiffany: Reading the signs…on his ex’s pregnancy test


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Dear Tifffany,  I’m currently ardently in love with someone we’ll call Steven, and we’ve been together since this March. Before Steven and I were together, he was with another girl for three years. He slept with me while they were together without telling me about her existence, but I forgave him when I found out. […]

Love U: The right swipe and romantic reassurance


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From break ups to make ups and everything in between, “Love U” captures the nuances of college students’ relationships. “Love U” runs in DeeTs on Mondays.   I started going on Tinder dates while studying abroad in Turkey. “Tinder tourism” we called it, and it worked out great. I joined a swim team, found my […]

Class Registration: No major? No Problem


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So you’re still figuring out what you want to do with your studies during your time in college. Being undeclared myself, I didn’t have a clear direction of what I wanted to study when I first enrolled at USC. This was especially problematic because I didn’t know which courses would benefit me when I first […]

6 Steps to Securing a Summer Internship


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It may be only late October, but it never hurts to start thinking about summer plans. Many companies are already doing heavy-duty recruitment on college campuses, and USC is no exception. In the last few weeks, the Career Center has become a hub of students shuffling between information sessions and interviews. But don’t fret! Below […]

How you can benefit from a runner’s mindset


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Running has always been a way that I take a mental break from the world around me. It’s the time I allocate for myself to stop, breathe and just focus on my body and myself. One could say that it’s similar to meditation as I put in my headphones and disappear from everything for the […]