-: Ever since I stepped foot on campus,
everything that I've been taught to do
and I've been mentored to do,
whether it was from Annenberg,
whether it was from professors,
whether it was from the career center,
whether it was from USC Athletics,
or my coach, Coach Dan,
everything that I have been told to do
and encouraged to do or try, it's never let me down.
Whether it is attending an Annenberg mentor career program,
whether it is attending a mentorship program
where your grouped with a mentor that can help you through,
whether it is volunteering your time
helping build this new building.
One of the weirdest things I did while I was at USC,
I worked in the project management group
and I helped do all the renderings
for this new building that we're sitting in today
and like, what does that have to do with sports?
It has nothing to do, but I just wanted to be involved.
I just wanted to be in the loop
of what was going on on campus and so anything,
whether it's a internship on campus,
or off campus, whether it's helping out a professor,
whether it is going to events,
whether it's reading those emails from the career center,
or attending networking events or luncheons,
or speaker series, these are all things that are free.
Free!
And what people don't understand is,
people pay $1,000 a ticket now.
In my world, to go to a sports convention for one day,
and to listen to Wasserman speak,
Wasserman comes to campus for free.
And you have people in my industry paying $1,000
just for a lunch ticket.
Like, take these resources
and utilize them to your advantage,
because they're putting them so close in front of you,
they'll never be that close again.
You have to, when you're out of USC,
and you're in your career,
you have to go seek these opportunities,
so the best thing that USC did for me was to
prepare me and to put the right people in front of me.