>> I think that even what was present in both my academic and my student life here
at USC was learning to take advantage of whatever resources were available to me.
It was true in terms of being an English major and working on an undergraduate thesis
that I got the opportunity to do.
Learning that research means more than simply reading other people's commentary,
but that all the information, and all the original texts from hundreds and hundreds
of years of work are available to you, and you can dig in and you can experience them
for yourselves, you can form your own thoughts, form your own opinions, your own views.
And also, in terms of everything that I was doing with my friends --
the photography and the film and the programs that we were putting on --
all of it was simply, "We want to do this; let's figure out how."
And I think time and time again, it was a delight to discover that yeah, you can!
You can figure that out, you can take advantage of the resources that are available to you,
whether they're people, whether they're information,
whether it's technology, whether it's venues.
Just make use of what you've got.