“The best thing about a degree in gerontology is that you can tailor it to whatever you’re passionate about. For me, that’s the physical and emotional aspects of aging, but others might lean toward advocacy, policy or politics. Either way, you’re changing lives and helping people age more joyfully.”
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“I had a pressing need to do something now, in the short term. That really sparked my interest in building social robots or socially assistive robots that could help people.”
“There are lots of things across the board that I find myself dabbling in to give myself a holistic college experience, and I have really enjoyed the four years I spent here.”
“I feel like it was amazing to have an event for students by students. An event that just uplifts the community that’s usually not represented.”
“It seemed like a perfect opportunity to both explore my own heritage and introduce it to so many people who probably have never heard of Kyrgyzstan.”
“USC has so many options,” Robles said. “There’s such an emphasis on the interdisciplinary aspect of the different colleges that inspires you to really try everything.”
“One thing that I really valued about my USC experience is that I’ve gotten to take classes all over the place,” Tsao said. “USC makes it really easy for that to happen.”
“The fact that I didn’t have to pigeonhole myself into this one discipline and feel really committed to it, but rather explore and then find how these interests can intersect, was really awesome.”
“It’s much more about telling a story, as you would with a painting or a photograph. You can really transport people to a certain time and a place. It’s about bringing the science into that.”
“I wanted to go somewhere where I was going to be pushed academically and in sports but taken care of. USC was kind of like the perfect place, the best of both worlds, basically.”