Ask Hahney: Networking


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Q: Do you have any advice for networking with internship coworkers and professors in a meaningful way? Thanks! — Shy and struggling “Trojan family, trojan family, trojan family!!” If you didn’t hear this phrase more than 34647132 times during orientation, perhaps you were at a different school’s. USC has one of the strongest alumni networks I’ve ever […]

Organ Music on Friday Nights


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Going to church on a Friday night is definitely an anomaly to my typical weekend routine. In fact, before this semester I never did go to church on a regular basis. However, things changed around for me when I started studying the pipe organ as one of my electives at the Thornton School of Music. […]

I Got 99 Problems, But A Registration Date Ain’t One


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I actually wore a sweater this week! Finally. But it was a short-lived celebration that quickly resulted in what would be a classic scene from Punk’d. Although Ashton Kutcher wasn’t there to personally laugh at me, the overcast clouds clearing out before noon was indication enough that I had made the wrong outfit choice. We […]

Megan’s Midterms Survival Guide


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Midterm season has begun! Although it feels like we have only been in school for a couple of days, the reality is that we are halfway finished with the Fall semester. I know that when I flipped the page in my weekly planner yesterday my heart quite literally skipped a beat. Three midterms in the […]

Diary of an Undecided Freshman: Picking GE’s


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As an undecided freshman who had – and still has- no idea what she wants to study or what she wants to be, freshman orientation was crazy, absolutely crazy. I was completely unsure about what I wanted to study and had no idea what a GE was. So here is my completely random schedule that […]

Academia Nuts: Ken Nealson


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Professor Ken Nealson is the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies at USC. Over the last 45 years, Nealson has had a hand in many fields. Technically, his lab is part of the earth sciences division. However, it is also a environmental microbiology lab, a biogeochemistry lab, and a geoelectrochemistry lab. The more niche the science […]

Daily Trojan’s Daily Poet: Forgiveness After Betrayal


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This week’s series of poems are about finding forgiveness after betrayal. The first poem talks about the betrayal of being pulled in and pushed out of a relationship. As the poems progress, it discusses inner conflictions that have stemmed from the emotions of anger and sadness associated with the betrayal. “IDENTITIES” is about the struggle […]

Ask Hahney: Developing Confidence


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Q: What are your pieces of advice for developing confidence? A: This answer sucks to write but sometimes developing confidence takes time. Very few people are born confident. Confidence doesn’t occur overnight. There will also be days when you feel less confident, days when you feel overconfident, and certainly days when you’re unsure of what […]

Why I Call Myself a Feminist


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I’m going to be honest: until recently, I’d always felt somewhat uncomfortable with the word “feminism.” As someone who’s pretty outspoken about the subtle and not-so-subtle inequities between men and women in society, I’d feel guilty when I found myself cringing every time someone asked me if I was a feminist and I’d answer proudly, […]

Sips Tea: Started From The Bottom Now We…Where?


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This week, like many of the past seven weeks, I went to class, I went to work, I had a few cups of coffees in between (Coffee Bean #regrets), and I asked myself what the meaning of my life was. Looking back a few episodes in this telenovela I call my life, I was celebrating […]