Livin' with Liv

This past weekend was three days long for President’s Day so people were taking advantage of the long weekend to go home and spend time with their families or do something else special. Since I live in New York it wasn’t really worth it for me to go home for three days because with all the traveling involved. It would feel like I was leaving as soon as I got there. So when my friend, Ariella, asked me if I wanted to go to San Diego with her to see her parents and visit around I said yes. It was the first time I would be visiting San Diego. Since enrolling at USC I hadn’t had the chance to explore much of California so I was excited to see a new place and get away for the weekend. Our trip started on Friday afternoon. The four of us piled into the car my friend, her roommate, me, and another girl who offered to give us a ride down. Our drive was pretty easy and there was less traffic than expected. We stopped at a place in San Clemente that my friend had raved about for their delici...

You just finished all your homework, and surprisingly you have some time to kill before you go to bed. What can you do? You can go on Netflix and put on an episode of that TV show you kinda like but why not change it up? Why not watch a movie by an award-winning director? Why not watch a Quentin Tarantino movie? This way you’d be guaranteed two hours of enjoyable entertainment before going to bed. If you’re in the mood for some dark humor, gory scenes, violence, and a captivating interwoven storyline then you’re in the right place. His movies draw from many genres guaranteeing an interesting time and with his complex storylines, your eyes will be sure to stay glued to the screen. The Rise of Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino is one of the most famous directors in the world, however, this did not happen overnight. Tarantino is originally from Tennessee but moved to California when he was four. His love of films began at a young age and led him to work in a video sto...

In the first part of her autobiography, Ellen Pao recounts her first encounters with discrimination. She starts by saying that besides a few isolated events her childhood was generally free from any negative experiences and her time at Princeton mirrored this. However, when she enrolls at Harvard Law,  things begin to change. She is finally made aware of the discriminatory opinions that still inhabit Harvard students and professors alike. White male professors would share their beliefs that none of the women or Black professors were qualified enough to teach at Harvard Law. As she graduated and moved on to a top law firm things got more slightly more obvious. She says she saw little things that didn’t seem to mean a whole lot. Events like senior partners taking twelve of Pao’s male peers to a four-hour steak dinner one of Pao’s friends, one of the few Black female lawyers and a graduate of Harvard Law, being mistaken for an assistant. No one interaction was the end of the world,” ...