(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Nico.
I'm a freshman here at USC.
I'm majoring in Philosophy, Politics and Law.
And some of my favorite stuff to do outside of classes
is to go take the Metro down to LA or Santa Monica
and just see the sites and some food, you know?
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
All right, so a typical day in the life for me
is waking up at around 9:50, 10:00 a.m. ish.
Getting some breakfast in at EVK,
which is one of I say the lowest ranked dining halls.
But, you know, it's still food.
And then after that, I go to class at 11:00 a.m.
which is my geology class.
And then after 3:30, I'm pretty much done with classes.
And then I'll usually go back to my dorm
and get some food with some friends and hang out for a while
and then chill.
And then usually at night around six or seven,
I'll have some club activities.
And then I'll usually just come back to my room
at like nine or 10.
And then I'll just work at Leavey library until
1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m just getting all my work done.
So, pretty much a typical day for me.
So this isn't normally a normal day here at USC,
but today we're having a career involvement fair.
A ton of businesses and stuff we'll come out here,
set up a booth and then allow students
to pretty much come up to them, show them the resumes
and have a little bit of conversation with them,
get to know them.
Maybe network and find opportunities to work with them.
So, it's pretty cool.
(upbeat music)
All right, so right here where we are,
we are at the Von KleinSmid school kind of.
It's where a ton of classes are.
Funny thing, I'm pretty sure I could be wrong,
Von KleinSmid was a eugenics.
So, kinda some shady stuff here with USC, but yeah.
Down that hall over there is where I have my
international relations class and it's for my major
which is, you know, Philosophy, Politics and Law.
Which I think is a really cool major because
you kind of get all these different aspects of philosophy,
politics and law.
And sort of just combines them all in this very like...
It's a very interdisciplinary major
that just allows you like see society
and how things are in a different way
that is the perspective of these three kind of topics.
So what's different with Philosophy, Politics and Law,
is that you get all these different fields in.
Is you're not simply focusing in political science
or mainly just history.
You see the philosophy aspects and the policies and law.
And so it's like how all those three things kinda connect
in this big, broader image of society working
and then our government.
And how they all play off one another
and how they all contribute.
And you can sort of make all these connections
with one another to help you understand things.
Because I wasn't sure what major I wanted to take
when I was applying.
But I think PPL just sort of gave me the freedom
to take classes in all these different fields
that I really enjoyed.
It's an honestly, it's surprisingly a really easy major,
only 36 units for the degree.
So, nine classes over four years.
It's definitely a lot of flexibility to explore
other places as well, which I think is really cool.
My favorite classes I've taken so far has been
my seminar class in climate change.
Completely recommend it.
Shout out to those teachers.
I forgot their names right now.
So I'm sorry about that.
But GESM 130
climate change is the science history and future of it.
Very important class,
because I feel climate change is a very important issue
that I care about a lot.
So, yeah.
(upbeat music)
All right, right over here, we have Doheny library,
which is one of the best libraries on campus.
Mostly because it just has a lot more architectural stuff.
A lot nicer kind of it.
But always a nicer to be working somewhere aesthetic.
So, when thinking about like general education requirements
here at USC, it's pretty cool.
We have from my school in Dornsife,
we have language requirements
which requires us to take at least three semesters
of a language.
There's stuff like math, which is pretty standard.
English writing 150
and an upper division writing classes also required
along with some science stuff as well.
A physical science and a life science class with labs.
And another cool thing, an arts class,
which for me, at least my arts class
has been my favorite class or one of my favorite classes
that I've taken here.
I've only taken eight so far,
so not much to really reference off.
But I really liked that about USC encouraging people
to take classes and like arts as well
and other stuff that doesn't really connect to our major.
(upbeat music)
So right here where I am, we're by the reflecting pool,
which is pretty much just like a regular fountain.
It looks really nice and people would come up here
and study and work a lot.
And then right behind that, we have my dorm,
which is Birnkrant,
seven floors of open doors it's been called.
It's a really social dorm.
Pretty much it a really nice community of people
who are very nice.
And you could pretty much find anyone
like similar interests as you there.
So at USC, social life is pretty much like
there's a very much a culture of going out I would say.
Cause we're right in the middle of like Los Angeles
and the Metro is literally five minutes off campus walking.
So you can go pretty much anywhere.
You can go on to LA go to some nightclubs and all that,
eat some food and see some museums.
Go down to Santa Monica, see the beach, hang out,
eat food and all that.
And there's a lot of parties kind of in the area too.
Usually there's fraternities and some clubs have parties.
There's a lot of venues that it can be rented out to be used
for any social events and all that.
(upbeat music)
Well, I think the most surprising thing about coming here
to USC for my first year was,
how easy it was to kind of find friends around here.
You don't really expect it.
USC is kind of a big campus in a big city.
But I think here, you can really find
so many opportunities to really find
you're a group of people
or people, that you really enjoy.
Let that be like your clubs, the people in your dorm.
Everything here is just like really social
and it's really fun to just interact with everyone.
And it was really easy me to transition
from not knowing anyone
to having a nice close knit of friends over here at USC.
So some tips, I guess, for adjusting
to coming from high school to college is
I would say, doing anything with involvement fairs
and when you see all the clubs, go to the meetings,
they're really nice places to meet friends.
And they all mean well by that.
I wish I went to some of my club meetings
at the beginning of my first semester because
I was really lazy and I didn't go to them
and I didn't get involved in as many as the things
I wish I did.
So that's probably what I would change
if I were to start back all over again
and try and do with something different.
(upbeat music)
All right, if you guys liked the video
and you guys wanna learn more about the top colleges
like and subscribe to Crimson Education
and have a nice day.
(upbeat music)
♪ Ooh ♪