Meeting People

I've been trying to meet more people now that I'm at USC, but I'm not doing too well on my own. Luckily I have an amazing suitemate who is very outgoing and social. His personality makes people more drawn to him and he also goes out of his way, a little bit, to try and meet people. In fact, thanks to him, I have now met almost every single person in my hallway and some in the others as well. I have met about 5 or 6 Koreans, one of whom is my suitemate. I'm glad that I have met such a great guy who has allowed me to meet so many people.

Not only that, but I've met a couple of other amazing people as well. The outgoing guy's roommate is a Korean who enjoys playing LoL a great deal, and I have no doubt that he has some sort of high rank, but I think I've met people on campus who are actually better than him. That's not the point, though. His contacts have allowed me to meet people who are in the honor's housing, which I guess I just didn't apply for or something, not that I would want it because I feel like A/C is kinda necessary... ish when you're living here. Anyway, I've been able to find people who are incredibly intelligent here as well through having the Korean guy as a friend.

My roommate is kind of a ladies man, I won't lie. Every time he's been out of the dorm, recently, it's been because he's been with one of the two girl dorms on our side of the hall. He's cool, though. He's hispanic and he seems pretty fluent in Spanish, which is really cool to me because I suck at Korean. He's also an Electrical Engineering major for now... but honestly, I know that he's really smart, but I think he's too chill to be in EE. I'm slowly starting to understand that this is actually a challenging major. I hope he chooses an awesome different major if he decides that EE isn't for him. Anyway, through this guy, I've been meeting more girls as a result of following him around.

From orientation, I met a group of guys who knew each other from middle school, but changed high schools. These three are each interested in different things. One enjoys LoL and is amazing at the game, another plays Heroes of Newerth and is also amazing at that game, and the last one... I'm not really sure what he does, but I know he can solve Rubik's cubes faster than I can... or maybe as fast. I'm not sure. Anyway, I've been following these guys around as well and I've met a great deal of different people. From people they know through older siblings or just people who play the same games, I've been able to meet a great deal of people because of them.

I'm still trying to make more friends so I can have more contacts as I grow up and leave this place. I know that graduating from USC apparently has its perks, as does graduating from any other school, but I don't want to risk having missed a chance to know an important person. I now need to sleep because I have classes again tomorrow.

-Sam Rho