<p>Hey, congrats to everyone who were recently admitted!</p>
<p>If you are going to "Explore USC" on Feb. 23-24, introduce yourself...</p>
<p>(maybe I'll see you there!)</p>
<p>I'm going!!</p>
<p>I'm hosting.</p>
<p>lol Actually...I might go for this one...my parents found out (unfortunately) that I have a week-long break the week of the first Explore USC, so I don't get to miss any school <em>sigh</em> Oh well :)</p>
<p>Nikara, when do we find out who our hosts are? For another school's overnight program, my host emailed me 1-2 weeks before; is that what USC hosts will do?</p>
<p>Are the people going to Explore USC only trustee nominees, or do presidential nominees go too?</p>
<p>I'm going by myself, unless my parents decide to tag along at the last minute... are most of u going w/ parents?</p>
<p>I'm SO excited!</p>
<p>ALSO (i forgot to ask in my other post)</p>
<p>to Nikara, or any USC student</p>
<p>are there any cool events going on? or scheduled to happen Feb 23-24? ...like a movie being filmed on campus or anything?</p>
<p>Feb 24 is my bday, but no party; I've got midterms :(</p>
<p>Nothing special seems to be going on at that time, but anything can happen. The movie shooting this past week was definitely unannounced.</p>
<p>You will not find out who your host is until you arrive at a meeting that evening. As a host, I won't know my student until I get to the meeting, as well.</p>
<p>I don't know about any special events, although there will be a little show at ground zero for you guys. We never know about film shooting in advanced.</p>
<p>redski59: "Feb 24 is my bday, but no party; I've got midterms"</p>
<p>Admist all ur studying, u should opt for a break... a party break. :D</p>
<p>lol, luckily Spring Break is only a few weeks later.</p>
<p>Ppl on another board were talking about a visit into downtown LA or UCLA. I would totally be into a side-trip if anyone else was interested too...?</p>
<p>and I thought I'd re-post these public transport links:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mta.net%5B/url%5D">http://www.mta.net</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ladottransit.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.ladottransit.com</a>
-DASH runs locally, and Commuter Express goes trans-LA (someone correct me if I'm wrong; I just looked at the online route maps)</p>
<p>and another question... are hosts & "explorers" matched up in advance, according to interests/majors or anything like that?</p>
<p>As I said on another board, you will not know who your host is until you get here. You also will not be able to travel around LA at any point of the program. After, yes, but not during. Your host Will be matched according to your major/school/if you are RHP.</p>
<p>You know you go to USC if... </p>
<p>-you wear flip flops to class everyday
-you are a true southern Californian and think that 60 degrees is cold
-your bike has been stolen at least once, despite the fact that you've locked it up 3 times
-campus cruiser is amazing
-you've seen variations on 'the practice safe sex, make love with a trojan' ' fucla' and 'we're not snobby, we're just better than you' t shirts
-you know NEVER to call a fraternity a frat (for the same reason you would never call your country a ____)
-you've befriended a waiter at upstairs commons and convinced them to let you buy wine and beer with your dining dollars
-you've wasted your dining dollars at the end of the semester because they don't carry over from fall to spring
-Trojan grounds as a frosh is amazing
-and you know better than to eat at EVK (because you know it really stands for evil kitchen)
-Parkside dining was cool for the first week of school.... but now it is just too far
-quarters are GOLD
-you've camped out for 2 days just to get season football tickets
-and go on the weekender religiously
-although there are 20,000 undergrads you know everyone that actually leaves their room and makes it to class
-you know that going out and getting drunk during the weekdays is cost free (well, monetarily at least)
-the biggest party nights are always during the weekdays because everyone goes home to their beachfront mansions during the weekends
-you own a pretentious audi a4, bmw 3 series or x5, Burberry scarf, or iPod
-the people who work at our Abercrombie at the Grove look like the ones that are on the posters for their ad campaign
-you go to the library to people watch or make out (Doheny stacks, you know what Im talking about)
-and study in cocktail lounges
-alcoholism is a perfectly acceptable "past time"
-you've taken a well deserved nap in KAP after trekking across campus to get there
-Parkside should be called the darkside of campus
-you know at least 5 different versions of that game where you throw a ball into a cup (beruit/ beer pong, when to re-rack, how many cups, etc.)
-Chano's and Del taco at 2 am are money
-you shop online just to send packages to yourself
-and check your mail everyday but just end up getting <strong><em>ed about the millions of flyers in your box
-they were just kidding when they said Verizon has the best service all over town (and although they sponsor the coliseum you don't get any reception and can't make any calls during the football games)
-... speaking of which, the peace sign *really</em> stands for "fight on"
-upperclassmen: you know you wouldn't have gotten in if you had applied this year
-you hate Michael Jackson and Sample's slow "stanfordization" of USC
-you are sick of cardinal and gold/trojans anything
-when you walk into a room and see a toga, a hooker, and a golf pro, you know it isn't a joke, just after hours
-you can never get Coke on campus, only Pepsi
-you've met a local at a party
-you've seen the swat team and/ or cop helicopters chase locals out of a party
-you've run into an RA or TA on a saturday night.... drunk
-you've been hit by a biker
-you've gone to the health center and learned that the cure for streph throat is a pregnancy test and a condom
-your discretionary account is higher than your credit card bill
-you love the sound of new email
-you are a novelty if you are not from California
-nor cal hella sucks! it's called the university of SOUTHERN California
-you know who has and hasn't showered by how faded the x on their hand is on saturday morning
-freshman girls are your ticket into any party
-UCLA SUCKS! fucla!
-you've been reprimanded by a senior to NEVER set foot in traddies until you are actually 21
-you hate the 9-hole for smelling like vomit and urine, but you go for the $2 beer and jack and coke specials anyways
-... with a black woman's id even though you are a white male
-you will only see Steven Sample twice in your entire career at USC: once during welcome week, and once at commencement
-you wonder about all the construction going on around campus, but you know it'll be going on waaaay after you've already left anyways
-you wouldn't even consider sleeping with your TA because he can't speak english anyways
-no one in the math department speaks english
-... or in the econ department
-you sign up to host prospective students so you can corrupt the incoming high school kiddies
-you take every out of town guest to go saki bombing on sunset
-you can only see the hollywood sign from campus half of the time because the smog is too thick to allow for visibility the other half
-you sign up to be an orientation leader to start orientation week partying 5 days earlier
-you have sat in LA traffic before and wondered why they call them 'freeways' when they should really be termed 'parking lots'
-you've never been to the viterbi engineering school, and you never plan on going
-you'd like to *</strong> the 2.75 business school curve
-you stalked people on myspace before there was thefacebook
-you've seen herding freshmen
-at home you start to pull out your id card when you go to starbucks
-by hooking up on the row you are connected to the entire school 'six degrees of separation' Kevin Bacon style.... or less
-you know what "the row" is
-though you've never met her, you receive daily emails from Linda Cole
-your school sponsors a day entirely devoted to getting drunk... homecoming
-trojan football KICKS ASS!
-... and you'd like to get in Matt Leihnert's pants if you could
-.... even if you are a guy
-you will sing the alma mater
-... and know drunken party versions of it
-you will know 20 different drinking songs and card games
-sorority girls complain about rushing, and fraternity guys complain about pledging
-you know what shacking is
-you have woken up, rolled out of bed, and realized that you've just shacked with someone you don't recognize
-you've never given up on going to the Lyon center because of the line to use the cardio equipment
-... but when you did you decided to go to gold's instead
-you've gotten up at 6:30 am to buy a parking permit online, but couldn't log on until 6:33 and ended up with a permit in the parking center anyways
-you have 6 outstanding parking tickets from tuesday/ wednesday street cleanings and those bastard meter maids on campus
-you've had DPS come and unlock your dorm room when you locked yourself out as a freshman
-....in a towel after your shower
-you have been woken up at 6am on the day of the big USC v. fucla game by members of the USC Marching Band playing the fight song directly at your dorm
-fountain runs are clutch!
-you've done a fountain run that has included hopping the fence of the rose garden and swimming in its murky water
-you've woken up and cried
-you've woken up and thrown up
-you've woken up and remembered the night before, and realized it was all worth it</p>
<p>Some true, some not. We are a Coke campus, not a pepsi one, thank god.</p>
<p>lol, good list. Hey Nikara, what's so bad about Pepsi??? Not that it matters to me; I'm one of those who can't tell the difference between the two.</p>
<p>I was raised on Coke, so I can't enjoy anything else. Nothing against the company, just hate the taste. Too surgary for me.</p>
<p>im a pepsi fan, but i guess i could settle for coke</p>
<p>only four more days until explore usc... </p>
<p>YAY!</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>I'm going, but I was just wondering... will the room I'm in have an extra bed for me? Because I can't seem to find my sleeping bag...</p>
<p>No bed, you will need a sleeping bag.</p>