Apr 23, 2012

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” –John Lennon My goal last year was to do all the things that made me...

Apr 12, 2012

In less than a month I will be graduating from USC and I can say with complete honesty that this University has given me the best experiences of my life. The number of things I don’t like about it can be counted on one hand: the people who stand on Trousdale and try to get me to save the dolphins when I’m late to class, the fact that the nearest Trader...

Apr 5, 2012

Confabulation is a term used in psychology to describe a lapse or mistake in an individual’s memory. These little “slips” allow us to tell complete lies while simultaneously remaining under the impression that we are telling the truth; a synonymous phrase for this would be “honest lying.” For example, you might have made an unprotected left-hand turn...

Mar 27, 2012

I recently got a Linkedin account, not because I want to use it to actually find a job or an internship but because it’s getting increasingly awkward to go to my career advisement appointments with zero proof that I have any concern for my future…and because the last time I went in there and said, “not really looking for a job, I’m just in PPD to...

Mar 23, 2012

I have a friend who we will call Winston (because that’s his name), and he is a huge hipster. What makes him a huge hipster — and not just a regular hipster — is not that he dropped out of college to drive around the country finding himself, the fact that he spends his evenings listening to Ella Fitzgerald on vinyl while sipping whiskey, or even...

Mar 22, 2012

I realized last month that I’ve become pretty religious and I’m really not okay with it. I guess by writing a public blog about it I’m somehow undoing any damage I may have done. I know that that’s not how the world works but let’s pretend like it is because I really have no other option than to recognize my mistake and move forward. I also understand...