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Life at USC Off Campus Student Blog

August 25, 2025

Yarn and Engineering: Keeping Myself Sane Through Crochet

Life as an engineering major is a beautiful whirlwind of activity, full of design teams, research, interesting classes, and being surrounded by amazingly driven people. However, there is a reason…

Sarah Rundquist

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Student Blog Student Organization Author Viterbi Organizations

August 25, 2025

How I Spent the Summer Planning SoCal’s First Quantum Hackathon

The summer of 2025 was an interesting one for me. I was used to working in a traditional lab full-time during the summer between my undergraduate years but not this…

Sandra Al Hames

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Chemical Student Blog Undergraduate Research

August 24, 2025

Conducting Research in Data Science as a Chemical Engineering Student

I never had to worry about air pollution in my hometown but in Los Angeles, I’ve learned how important air quality is. As a Research Fellow with USC’s CURVE program,…

Michaela Dowd

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Academics College Breaks Electrical Internships, Co-ops, and More

August 22, 2025

My East Coast Summer

This summer, I interned at Northrop Grumman in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. As someone from the Bay Area, I had always sworn off the East Coast for college—so spending 10 weeks…

Hansini Ramachandran

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Civil and Environmental College Breaks Student Blog

August 22, 2025

My Summer Internship At Turner Construction

This summer, I returned for my second year interning with Turner Construction—this time in Portland, Oregon, my hometown. My journey with Turner actually started at USC’s involvement fair and the…

Alexandra Geschwill

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Aerospace and Mechanical College Breaks Internships, Co-ops, and More Student Blog

August 22, 2025

Staying Busy on Maui While Taking an Unconventional Path!

Checking back in after a relaxing yet productive summer! As an engineering student at a world-class institution, I initially felt obligated to apply to internships after seeing my peers do…

Karissa Ginoza

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Internships, Co-ops, and More Student Blog

August 21, 2025

Summer in the PNW

What was I up to this summer? Exploring the Pacific Northwest! I worked as a Software Engineer Intern at HP, developing embedded software in Vancouver, WA (right across the river…

Ashly Lam

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Life at USC Student Blog

August 20, 2025

Exploring Peaks and Meeting Professors: A USC Club That Helps Me Maintain Balance

An extracurricular activity I partook in last year was Peaks & Professors, a student club that organizes hiking trips for USC students. What sets this club apart from other outdoors…

Zoe Zlatic

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College Breaks Student Blog

August 20, 2025

My Virginia/DC Highlights!

It feels like most students across the nation make it to DC for some class trip. But I wasn’t a part of these students! This summer I had the opportunity…

Satwika Vemuri

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Off Campus Student Blog

August 18, 2025

Ride, Relax, Repeat: How Hobbies Help Me Thrive at USC

August is the time of year when everyone has their class schedules settled and starts looking for extracurricular activities. Students flock to info sessions for various engineering clubs available at…

Talise Baker-Matsuoka

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Community & Culture Life at USC Student Blog

August 18, 2025

The Shift from High School to College: My USC Glow-Up

Procrastination to Productivity If “high school me” could get a glimpse of who I’ve become in college, he’d probably do a double-take due to how much I’ve changed physically and…

Antonio McVay

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College Breaks Internships, Co-ops, and More Student Blog Viterbi Voices

August 15, 2025

Exploring the Amazon

Not the rainforest - yet. Summer 2025 has been incredibly eventful and fun - the biggest piece of it has been my software engineering internship at Amazon. 12 weeks of…

Jake Grigorian

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