Tag Archive for: office hours

Students should reach out to USC professors


Especially now that the semester is ending, it is vital to get on your professors’ good sides. No, I don’t mean becoming the ass-kisser who sits in the front row and relentlessly participates for brownie points, making everyone else inwardly (sometimes outwardly) groan. Professors see through fake behavior just as well as other students do; […]

Office hours must be better utilized


The midterm, that mid-semester ritual celebrating the art of overcoming sleep-deprivation is upon us. All around us, students can be observed performing the rites of cramming, pulling an all-nighter and nervously breaking down. It’s a spectacle to behold, and one which varying class structures conspire to make last for more than a month. The most […]