Keeping Up With Kelly

The USC Student Alumni Society puts on a great weekend of events every spring called SCuppers. Any student can sign up to attend a free dinner with a few prestigious alumni. My best friend Jess works with the alumni association to coordinate over 60 dinner events with 180 alumni and nearly 800 students. SCuppers is a cool opportunity for students to sit down with successful alumni and connect over some good food Some alumni host these events at their homes or at restaurants around LA. Tonight my roommate and I went to one and I wanted to share my experience! Our dinner was hosted at Morton Fig (which is on campus) and there were roughly 12 students and 3 alumni. All 3 alumni are on the USC Board of Governors. Annie Occhipinti was the host and travels the world representing USC. Another man, whose name I forget, met his wife on freshmen move in day in 1981. After 5 years of being "friend zoned" by her, they got married and their son is now a 3rd generation Trojan. He worked ...

WALKING SAVED OUR LIVES Why ten-thousand steps a day will change your life, and how to easily achieve your step goal. I t’s the era of smart everything, and if we weren’t concerned about our health before, we certainly are now. With smart devices capturing the activity of our eyes and fingers, we don’t realize how infrequently we get our legs moving. Between long commutes, boring desk jobs, and sedentary home lifestyles, the average American spends nearly 7.7 hours sitting each day (JustStand.org)! It’s silly, but your day-to-day inactivity can quite literally kill you. Lucky for us, there are great wearable technologies (Fitbit is my favorite) aimed at counteracting the sedentary lifestyle other devices – like cell phones – create. When you purchase a wearable health device, one of the first things you do is set a step goal. Often, the default is 10,000 steps per day. But why are steps the key indicator of health? What’s the magic in 10k? And if 10k steps is nearly 5 miles, h...