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Engineering Plus Life at USC Student Blog

October 20, 2026

How I Balance School and Everything Else

Over the past four years, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to find balance in college! I wanted to share some of my top tips for how I’ve…

Satwika Vemuri

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Biomedical Engineering Plus Student Blog

January 18, 2026

My Musical Journey Wrapped – From Orchestral Viola to Ultrasound

“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life… but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for” — John Keating, Dead Poets…

Dominic De La Torre

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Abroad Experiences Engineering Plus Student Blog

October 8, 2025

Studying Abroad in Edinburgh!!

If you had told me at the beginning of my Viterbi experience that I would get to study abroad, I would’ve thought you were crazy. I would’ve said there’s no…

Victoria Aguirre

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Engineering Plus Life at USC Student Blog

October 8, 2025

Sailing into senior year?!

Did you know you can get a captain's license for sailing in 5 semesters at USC? There are so many nautical science classes here and they even have a teaching…

Anna Hsu

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Engineering Plus Life at USC On Campus Student Blog

August 15, 2025

4 In’s & Out’s for the New Academic Year, from a MechE Senior

This fall marks my final year as a senior mechanical engineering student at USC. Although I’m starting to feel sentimental, there are a few things I want to impart onto…

Naya Williams

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Campus Involvement Engineering Plus Life at USC Trojan Family

March 31, 2025

Letter to My Freshman Year Self

Dear Freshman Taylor, College turned out to be everything you imagined and so much more. So many things you were worried about turned out to be blessings in disguise. I…

Taylor Hill-Miles

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Academics Campus Involvement Engineering Plus Life at USC Student Blog Why USC

March 1, 2025

My Favorite Things About USC Viterbi

To express my thoughts regarding the Viterbi School of Engineering, I decided to write a quick parody to the opening melody of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music:…

Zoe Zlatic

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Campus Involvement Computer Science Engineering Plus Student Blog

February 28, 2025

All Press is Good Press, I Guess: How I incorporate Journalism with CS

If you would have come up to high school Keilani and told her, “Oh by the way, you go to USC after high school for Computer Science and Business Administration,…

Keilani Kozen

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Electrical Engineering Plus Student Blog

January 19, 2025

Beyond Engineering: How My ECE Degree is Opening Doors to Patent Law and More

When asked what a typical job for an engineer after graduation looks like, most people think of an engineer working late at night, the only light source is a computer…

Talise Baker-Matsuoka

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Engineering Plus Student Blog

October 14, 2024

Beyond the Classroom: Expanding My Horizons

One of the most rewarding aspects of my time at USC has been getting involved in student organizations. While some believe that academics are the foundation of a college education,…

Jeet Madnani

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Community Service Engineering Plus

October 7, 2024

Building Community, One Meal at a Time: How africActive Became My Family

Let me tell you about one of my favorite organizations, africActive, which has cared for me like a true family would. April 2023 What is africActive? AfricActive is a nonprofit…

Taylor Hill-Miles

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Academics Engineering Plus Student Blog

September 30, 2024

Engineering Plus: GE’s and 2-Unit Courses

Throughout my time at USC, I have had the opportunity to explore disciplines beyond engineering. In a seminar course focused on literature, I read and discussed iconic American classics like…

Ashly Lam

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