The long 30-minute routines on the freeway after a full day of school to get to another school were once unappealing to me. I would always stall as long as possible before opening the car door, fake a stomach ache, or pretend to not feel my mom tugging on my shirt or hear her voice waking me up from my overdue nap. But the door would open one way or another. We’d always start off the week at Chinese...

The long 30-minute routines on the freeway after a full day of school to get to another school were once unappealing to me. I would always stall as long as possible before opening the car door, fake a stomach ache, or pretend to not feel my mom tugging on my shirt or hear her voice waking me up from my overdue nap. But the door would open one way or another. We’d always start off the week at Chinese...

Science hasn’t always been my number one subject at school; however, after taking AP Biology, I’ve learned that everything from the skin on my body to the sex chromosomes and DNA making up my genetics is science. My favorite aspect of biology is either physiology and how the body defends itself from diseases or genetics and how traits are inherited. I feel that attending USC with a Biology major will not just confine me in the classroom, but...

You have so much time in the summer to do...