<p>I am currently a new freshman at USC in the School of Cinema-Television, majoring in Critical Studies. At the moment I 'm a bit bored, so if you have any questions about USC (from a freshman/cinema student point of view, or really anything about the campus etc.) I'd be happy to try and answer them (no guarantees of course.) But feel free to ask about applying, dorms (I'm in Pardee), the overall "feel" of campus, anything. I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can, but go nuts.</p>
<p>Tell me about the feel of the campus.</p>
<p>Hooray! Someone asked! Well, I find USC to be a very inviting campus. There are many many people, but you always seem to see someone you know. Aesthetically, it is a very pleasing campus to the eyes (I'll spare you just talking about the beautiful buildings etc. becasue I'm sure you've heard a lot about it before.) Everyone on campus is generally nice (depeneding on who you talk to, obviously) and most have no qualms about going out of there way to help you find a class or directions off campus. There's always something going on- a convention, meeting, show, barbecue- and there's always something to do (I've rarely left campus since I've been here, though I do hope to explore LA soon.) Generally speaking USC is a very lively and upbeat campus with a great accepting feel to it (I'm from MA and I haven't felt out of place once.) And if you're not into a lot of lively activity, there are many quiet spots on campus that you can find to relax and study at. I find it to be a great campus, with an all around good/interesting "feel" to it (catered to just about anyone's individual taste.)</p>
<p>Is it true that the girls there are really hot?</p>
<p>How was your financial aid? How much are you paying?</p>
<p>You're bored? It's only the second day of class and I'm struggling from the amount of homework already!</p>
<p>Yes, both the guys and the girls are really hot.</p>
<p>For5aken, do you happen to have math or WRIT 140 classes? Lots of girls in my hall are complaining about the essay that's already due...I pretty much have no homework except for some light reading in my Ancient Greece textbook.</p>
<p>mad-toast, which floor? I'm in Pardee 6th!</p>
<p>I don't have math, but I have WRIT 140, but no essay was assigned. But I have 16 chapters of Biology to read by tomorrow, 1 chapter of Chemistry, 2 chapters of my Biology lab manual, 1 chapter of gender studies, and an intro in the WRIT course reader. Ouch?</p>
<p>what's so bad about math? i'm taking math and the 1st homework was already assigned, but it was pretty short and easy. in general I found they pretty much assign the bare minimum in math classes, but your mileage may vary I guess.</p>
<p>some math classes, they give you all the HW's at the beginning of the semester - maybe that?</p>
<p>Whoa, whoa, whoa everybody. I beleive the title of the thread was "Ask ME A Question." </p>
<p>To answer Murasaki's question, yes, yes they are. But that doesn't mean everyone, but in any case I don't like to objectify women (for all you girls out there.)</p>
<p>For ManUtd20Ole, I have no financial aid whatsoever. I pay full price (minus some scholarships from my high school.) Unfortunately, I didn't get a high enough score on my SATs (a 1960) to really be considered, though my unchalleneged greatness extends far beyond that score. Henceforth, my father also owns his own business so there was no financial aid (though we are not rich by any means.) It sucks rather much, but USC was just the place to be.</p>
<p>To For5aken, I had to read ten pages of french exercises tonight, that was it. So ha! And when I started this thread, I wasn't bored per se, just sitting in my room waiting for someone to get put of class so we could go eat.</p>
<p>And finally to margaritasalt17, I am on the 5th floor in one of those crazy rooms that start with a 5 and end with some other number.</p>
<p>So there you all have it.</p>
<p>Thanks for being available for folks to ask questions of. I respond to your thread for 2 reasons. First, to say that my son's homework has been as we expected. Some math problems in calculus, and a fair amount of reading in his GE class. Not too heavy so far, but definitely the homework/reading is there (as one would expect for a good University). 2nd resson for posting to this thread (i hate the UCLA comparission threads, how useles at this point, now that all freshman have been accepted, and are currently attending the campus that they chose for whatever combination of reaons. No reason to debate the schools at this point. It is truly conterproductive. Any response to any other thread pushes that thread UCLA down one notch further. The worst thing to do, is to post to that UCLA thread, and to criticise it from within the thread. It simpy raises the thread back to the top again.</p>
<p>Thanks for this offer -- I am so going to take you up on it! I've just posted a new thread on housing, but I still have some more specific questions for you. Here goes:
1. What's your dorm like?
2. Is your roommate OK?
3. Any safety concerns?
4. Do students date -- or is it just a serial hook-up campus?
5. Glad you don't objectify women -- but what about the other guys?! Tell us a bit about the gestalt of the place, please.
6. Are most of the students around you from California?</p>
<p>Thanks for any insights you can give all us prospective Trojans!</p>
<p>For what it's worth, from a mom's perspective when we were with son at move-in day on 8/16, there were lots of kids from all over the place. My son is from HI, his room mate is from MA, there were several other kids on his dorm floor from CA & other places as well, including one from Hong Kong. Everyone seemed very friendly & happy to be at USC. Some female students came over to introduce themselves (they are the odd numbered floors in my son's dorm & males are on the even numbered floors).
My daughter (a HS junior) commented that everyone was super-friendly & nice & excited about the beginning of school. Seemed to her that everyone was going out of their way to meet & befriend everyone else, which made for a high-energy dynamic.
USC had LOTS of activities organized to keep the students meeting & greeting: dorm & floor meetings, meetings/receptions in your school (e.g. engineering), job fair, involvement fair, free football scrimmage for everyone to attend, barbecue for everyone to attend, some live entertainment, outings on buses for folks to get more stuff for their dorms & eat away from campus, etc.
Sorry I can't comment on the rest of the questions you asked.</p>
<p>haha i have no books and the books got sold out at the book store so i can't do my readings for GES... i only have art homeworks (2 projects for 2 classes) not so bad.</p>
<p>lol what is it with the bookstore this semester, they seem to be sold out of all the textbooks already. One of my professors handed out copies of the homework problems because half the class still can't get the textbook... :)</p>
<p>For some reason it's not really leting me write a response to you Magd (I've already tried twice.) I am quite tired at the moment, but rest assured, I will try again tomorrow.</p>
<p>Yeah, when we were at the bookstore the week of move-in day, several of the books my son needed were also sold out & promised by the beginning of class, Monday. I suspect they still haven't arrived. Weird! I guess there's always amazon.oom, but hard to expect everyone in class to get their books that way.</p>
<p>I've got some questions! So, you're in the school of cinema television...I hear it's pretty competitive to get into; did you have a lot of film ECs? </p>
<p>Also, I'm interested in both screenwriting and journalism. I'll probably be applying the journalism school...can I take screenwriting/film classes even if I'm in Annenberg? How easy is it to transfer into CNTV?</p>
<p>Well MissSuperFantastic, yes it is a difficult task to get into CNTV (and I do like to brag.) However, I did not have a lot of Film ECs. You don't have to be thoroughly experienced in film to be liked/accepted into the film school. They make you do many many samples of writing and consider how much promise you may have in film. No one is expecting you to know everything there is to know about film before entering (because then what will they teach you?) just that you have some tangible future in it. </p>
<p>And as for taking film classes while at Annenberg, yes, that is very possible. You can minor in screenwriting if you choose (though the CNTV minor is also a competative one to get into.) But if you just want to take classes, CNTV offers many non-major courses that anyone can take (including over 10 different screenwriting courses, 7 animation courses, 16 critical study courses, and around 20 production courses.) There are many options available to you at USC via the track that you specified.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, as for transfering, you have the same chances as anyone applying as a transfer from around the country. For production, you can only transfer in your junior year, and the same goes for critical studies too (I believe.) I'm not sure about screenwriting, but it too probably has a certain time that you can apply as well. So basically, it is just as difficult to apply as a transfer as it is an incoming student (unless of course you get beaming recommendations from the CNTV professors here, though that's certainly not easy.)</p>