Four years later...

So I was checking my STARS report this afternoon, and it startled me just how much of the page read blue. I've become accustomed to looking for incompletes and scanning the page for the bits of red that pop out of the document, but today, I only saw a sea of ultramarine blue. And it's funny, because despite all the dramatic lasts - last classes, last meeting, last issue - that have been bubbling to the surface as of late, it was seeing this oddly soothing shade of blue that really made the weight of four years sink in today.

Looking over classes that I've taken at USC really helps to solidify each semester, and instantly brings me back to all the different experiences each one had to offer.

This is what makes four year seem like such an extended period of time:

Fall Term 2005

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
CLAS-280g	4.0	Classical Mythology
WRIT-140	4.0	Writing and Critical Reasoning
PHIL-140g	4.0	Contemporary Moral and Social Issues
EALC-220	4.0	Japanese III
JOUR-190	2.0	Introduction to Journalism

Spring Term 2006

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
EALC-110g	4.0	East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition
THTR-184A	2.0	Jazz Dance
PSYC-100	4.0	Introduction to Psychology
PHYS-100Lxg	4.0	The Physical World
JOUR-201	4.0	History of News in Modern America

Fall Term 2006

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
PSYC-360	4.0	Abnormal Psychology
PSYC-305	4.0	Learning and Memory
JOUR-203	3.0	Newswriting: Broadcast
JOUR-202	3.0	Newswriting: Print
EALC-222	4.0	Japanese IV

Spring Term 2007

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
THTR-183B	2.0	Ballet
PSYC-359	4.0	Interpersonal Relations
JOUR-303	3.0	Reporting: Broadcast
JOUR-302	3.0	Reporting: Print
ARLT-100g	4.0	Arts and Letters

Fall Term 2007

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
FA-102	4.0	Design Fundamentals
WRIT-340	4.0	Advanced Writing
PSYC-338	4.0	Adolescent Development
JOUR-309	3.0	Introduction to Online Media
JOUR-308	3.0	Newspaper Editing and Design

Spring Term 2008

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
JOUR-300O	1.5	Off-campus Studies
JOUR-300O	1.5	Off-campus Studies
JOUR-300O	3.0	Off-campus Studies
JOUR-300O	2.0	Off-campus Studies
SOCI-100O	4.0	Off-campus Studies
COMM-300O	4.0	Off-Campus Studies

Fall Term 2008

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
JOUR-090x	0.0	Internships in the Media
JOUR-310	4.0	Investigative Reporting
PSYC-462m	0.0	Minority Mental Health
PSYC-201Lg	4.0	The Science of Happiness
JOUR-431	4.0	Feature Writing

Spring Term 2009

Course	Units Earned	Course Description
PSYC-464	4.0	Psychology of Marriage and the Family
AMST-449m	4.0	Asian American Literature
JOUR-470	2.0	Community Journalism
JOUR-462	4.0	Law of Mass Communication

So much time, money and effort spent on these courses and what to show of it? Four years of education and experience and life, in a wide range of topics I never would have imagined possible.

Irreplaceable and worth every minute.