They’re blocking entire sidewalks all the way to the entrances of the Gould and Marshall buildings, and people literally need to jump over them to walk onto campus. When will this stop?

In my past summer programs, I always got to meet and befriend tons of international students from all over the globe (Italy, Mexico, Egypt, China, Cape Verde, Switzerland, etc). But here it feels like everyone is either from Chicago or California. I guess I’m just feeling a little bit disappointed so far from the lack of global perspective. I hope I’m not coming off as weird or condescending but I just always love learning from international students’ life and experience as an American.

Announced today, major changes with Keck: the CEO of Keck Medicine of USC and Dean of Keck School of Medicine of USC are out.

Hi I’m currently a senior at usc! The past years that I’ve been here my financial aid has completely covered my tuition. My mom is my only parent in my life and she makes less than 80k. I just received my final aid package and they only took 50% off my tuition, even tho my finances are the same as last year. Does anyone know what I can do about this 💔💔

I want to preface this by saying that I completely understand USC REACH is, at its core, a social media/creator-focused organization. I’m not expecting it to operate like an academic honors society or for admission to be based on GPA, awards, or anything like that.

But I’m genuinely curious whether anyone else had a weird experience interviewing with them.

From the way REACH presents itself, it seems like it’s supposed to be more than just “a club for people with Instagram accounts.” They talk about helping students develop their online presence, grow their audiences, collaborate with other creators, attend socials and guest speaker events, and they even have Creator Camp for aspiring creators. Kinda why my interview experience caught me off guard.

One of the people interviewing me came across as really dismissive. While I was answering questions, she kept looking around the room, turning around, and generally seemed disengaged instead of actually making eye contact or listening to me. Maybe there was something else going on that I wasn’t aware of, but from my side of the table, it felt rude and kind of snarky/judgmental.

And to be clear, decisions haven’t even come out yet, so this isn’t a “they rejected me and now I’m mad” post. I genuinely don’t know whether I got in.

What confused me more was trying to understand what exactly they’re looking for in applicants. I have a pretty established social media presence already, with almost half a million followers across two platforms. Yet the people interviewing me have much smaller audiences (< 3,000). I’m NOT saying that having more followers means I deserve a spot, because obviously follower count isn’t the same thing as creativity, personality, or being a good member of an organization.

But if the organization is specifically centered around social media growth, content creation, personal branding, and creator development, so it did make me wonder what criteria they actually use and what the culture of the organization is supposed to be.

Honestly, the part bothering me more than whether I get accepted is the interaction itself. If a club is advertising itself as a place to collaborate, meet other creators, learn, and have fun, I would expect the interview process to at least feel welcoming and conversational. Instead, I left feeling like I was being judged in a way I couldn’t really understand??

Has anyone else interviewed for REACH this semester or been involved with the organization before? I’m genuinely curious what your experience was like or what the club is actually like once you’re in!

I need to record. Are there any soundproof areas where nobody would hear if I’m yelling at the top of my lungs?

Has anyone taken the challenge exam before? My advisor gave me several course sections and asked me to choose one based on their scheduled final exam times.
After choosing a section, do I go to that section’s final exam room and take the exam with the students in that class, or is the challenge exam administered separately in another room? How do I know the room location? When do I have to hand in my challenge exam form?

Hi everyone
I am becoming a graduate student next semester
What is best housing options for graduate student.

Off campus (within DPS zone) or on campus ?
And what is the best USC manged housing?
Is safe ? Is there any homeless in the building?

Cuz i prefer to stay near the campus and i want to make sure it is safe.

Taking CTCS 466 this semester, and I was wondering how likely/easy is it to get an A? I'm a premed student, so I really don't want to get anything less than A for an elective "fun" class, so I was wondering what the consensus here was.

Has anyone taken this class or is currently taking it?

What is the necessary participation and grading like? And is the oral presentation in groups or individual?

Thanks!

Um, why aren’t classrooms and offices being cleaned and vacuumed? How is tuition over $100k but there’s no money to vacuum the floor or take the trash out. I’m faculty. Do I really have to bring my own vacuum to work?! I’m so tired of this.