Eshayna's WRIT340 Blog

  CareerBridge - A job platform for unprivileged high school graduates The gap between being a high school, or even college graduate, and finding a job is one that is not easily filled. My struggle to find opportunities within a well-connected school such as USC has been slim. It took over a year for me to secure a summer internship, imagine finding a full-time job. Right now I still have financial support from my parents. Imagine struggling to support your life and also not having the option to work. If I can help underprivileged kids with even fewer resources and connect them to a stable, paying job that can help them start their lives, I want to take that opportunity! The way CareerBridge will work is that it will have a database of underprivileged local students who are about to graduate high school or are under two years of school graduation and are interested in finding a job. The second database will have a server of employers and job roles and positions looking to hire mini...

The first step to making the world a better place is empathy. Empathy is the solution to every global problem that you look at. Children are taught to be creative by incorporating art, music, dancing, etc. through their elementary curriculum. However, these creative outlets are hindered in the later half of one's education. Without realizing it you are put into a box that prioritizes just STEM, and you are looked down upon for thinking otherwise, similarly, with empathy. The values of "sharing is caring" are implemented in the early stages of life very briefly but are not built upon through one's life to instill it as a habit. By creating a required curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students that centers around the idea of how to express empathy in everyday interactions, how to be cognizant of others' feelings and thoughts, and co-create solutions, the biggest issues and conflicts of the world could be solved. This obviously is a huge entrepreneur...

Meet my golden doodle, Millie! Millie came into my life in August 2020, when we picked her up from her previous family in Corona, California, three hours away from where I live. Millie actually was not a planned puppy. Her previous family had two golden doodles and they were having a bit too much fun over the pandemic, and therefore Millie was born! She was only 5 pounds and 8 weeks old the first day she came to our house, and her little bunny hopping around the grass in our backyard made me fall in love with her.  The funny thing is that I HATED DOGS before Millie came into my life. I was deathly afraid of them biting, barking, and jumping on me. EVERYTHING. If there was a dog at my friend's house, I simply would not go. That was the extent of my fear. However, my sister and my mom always loved dogs. Ever since I was a child my sister has asked for a dog for Christmas, but it was never taken seriously because of how much I was afraid of dogs. However, my senior year of high school...