Dina El Kadi, MCM Candidate, Class of 2015

So, you’ve decided to travel across the globe to get an MCM degree from USC? It’s definitely a tough transition to make, trust me I know. But there are some experiences, confusing situations and realizations that we all share whether we’re from China, Canada, or Egypt. Like why the heck are there so many forms for every single choice we make?...

Samantha Rothschild, MCM Candidate, Class of 2016

When I walked into the old Annenberg auditorium for my first graduate class, I felt I had an upper hand. As a progressive degree student – a senior in undergrad but a first-year in grad school – I’d been in the room dozens of times over the course of three years. In fact, I’d just been in the classroom a few hours earlier for one of my...

Claire Penhorwood, MCM Candidate, Class of 2015

My internship was more than just a credit towards my Masters degree, or something to do in the summer. It was undoubtedly the first step towards re-entering the professional world, after spending many hours in collaborative classrooms and reading what seemed like never-ending yet very interesting journal articles.

At the company I...

Laura Hartman, MCM Candidate, Class of 2015

Several years after earning my Bachelor’s degree (in Psychology) and entering the workforce, I decided to return to school as a student in the MCM program at USC Annenberg. I now find myself in the rewarding, yet sometimes challenging, position of juggling between classes and my job in graduate recruitment at the USC Viterbi School of...

American fashion consultant and television personality Timothy M. “Tim” Gunn once stated, “Life is not a solo act. It’s a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.” This quote resonates with our group mentality, as well as the foundation of our project Creative Karma. When crafting the idea behind Creative Karma,...

Samantha Rothschild, MCM Candidate, Class of 2016

When I was first applying to colleges it seemed like I could never get away from the common slogan: “we have great research opportunities!” At a certain point, research felt like it was a given. Of course school X, Y and Z would have amazing research opportunities. It became a vague, overhead term that did not mean much, yet was...

Edward McSweeney, MCM Candidate, Class of 2015

Just after stepping foot into USC’s newest building addition, Wallis Annenberg Hall, it becomes clear that you have crossed over into a completely different type of educational environment. Even though is it filled with an almost overwhelming amount of new technology, it still has the same comfortable feel as the old Annenberg building,...

Kate McKenzie, MCM Candidate, Class of 2015

Two months, 100 hours of footage, zero hours of sleep and a sprained neck later, the hardest group project I’ve ever worked on was done. The project was for Professor Craig and Levy’s Visual Storytelling class, and it required us to make – write, cast, shoot and edit – our own web series.

The project was tough because it pushed my...