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Navigating Your First Year as a Spring Admit
by Lanie Brice
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Navigating Your First Year as a USC Trojan
by Lanie Brice
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Off Campus Housing Hunt and Avoiding Scams
by Lauren Liang
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How to Balance Your Social Life During Finals
by Donal Buckley
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College Application Tips for a Prospective USC Student
by Kathryn Aurelio
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Study Tips and Habits to Get Through Finals Season
by Lauren Liang
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A Guide to Holiday Activities in LA
by Kayla Bowens
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Easy Road Trips from LA
by Ela Rybak
Trojans360 Articles
Learning to Live with OCD at USC
Like the freshman fifteen, there are a few things you can expect to happen during the start of your college career. At the beginning, I thought that secondhand stories and research about college life had prepared me for it all. I knew I would miss my home and my old friends. I could count having conflicts with my roommates and struggling with balancing work and fun. But during my second semester at USC, one thing I hadn’t planned to encounter snuck up on me— an OCD diagnosis.