Freedom in College


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In some ways, college is the last time that students are given absolute freedom to explore their interests. However, far too often, we are blinded by the moment, running along like racehorses with tunnel vision just trying to make it to graduation, forgetting that college is as much about the journey as it is about […]

Table for One


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Last year, I was driving up to USC with my dad and a car loaded full of my belongings. I was moving into my dorm in preparation to begin my life as a college student. To be frank, I was more scared than I was excited. I was afraid I wouldn’t get along with my […]

Somewhere between responsible and restless


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With less than 90 days until graduation, there’s a certain pressure, partially self-imposed and partially peer-imposed, to capitalize on every opportunity during senior year. Everyone wants to make it the year of saying yes to every adventure, big or small. At the same time, however, I know I have a future to prepare for — that […]

How to Become a LinkedIn All-Star*


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(*LinkedIn’s words, not mine.) This past summer I had the pleasure of attending LinkedIn Festival: A Non-Technical Hackathon at the social networking service’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Although I was there specifically to develop an idea that would promote employee engagement, I ended up talking with many LinkedIn employees who were staffing the weekend event about […]

Love U: An open letter to a former Valentine


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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.   Dear former valentine, It’s been two years since you’ve been my valentine. Now what you are to me is something between a distant friend and a memory. Over […]

Life Is Short


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I am almost positive that every college student in his or her life has done one of the following: Strategically waited to answer a text message: Putting the phone away when the text was received at 12:51 p.m. and promising you won’t answer until 12:56 p.m. and 33 seconds because that’s the perfect amount of […]

I Just Don’t Know


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College is about learning, about knowing things. Yet, in my last semester of college I’ve been spitting out the phrase “I don’t know” like a broken record. “Are you going back to the East Coast after graduation, or are you staying in L.A.?” “I don’t know.” “What are you doing after graduation anyway?” “I don’t […]

#RIPTwitter or Not?


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It was the BuzzFeed report heard round the world. Last Friday, the news site claimed that Twitter was planning to replace its signature reverse chronological timeline with a redesigned algorithmic feed that would prioritize presumably better content for users. While this would make popular content harder to miss, many were concerned that other voices would be […]

Love U: A labor of love


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Relationships are hard. That’s an easy lesson to learn. What makes a relationship worth all of the labor that goes into building it? That’s a much more difficult question to answer. I didn’t have an answer to that question when I came to college. In high school, I was always guarded. I kept my emotions […]

Ask Tiffany: Friendzoning 101


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“I have a friend who keeps wanting to hang out. He’s really awesome, but I fear he likes me more than platonically. How do I non-awkwardly, non-confrontationally, non-friendship-destroyingly relay the message that I am uninterested in a more-than-friends relationship but still really would like to be homies?!?!” Making yourself a little less available is a […]