Sundays@USC: The Place Where USC Students Build Cool Things

by Kristen Adams ‘25

“We meet every Sunday to create whatever it is that makes us feel alive.”

One rainy Sunday, I stumbled across a new Instagram page called Sundays@USC. A few USC students were featured, including someone building an AI gardening tool, a student creating a card game, and someone researching quantum computing. I quickly fell in love with the idea of Sundays@USC: a place for anyone to work on passions that excite them. It is a home for designers, artists, founders, coders, screenwriters, filmmakers, researchers, movers and shakers – I knew I had to experience this for myself, so here’s what I learned about Sundays@USC after my first coworking session:

The collective was started by six USC students (Jake, Josh, Jade, Byeongjun, Chris, and Ethan) studying a variety of different majors, ranging from business to cognitive science. They fell in love with the idea of gathering a group of interdisciplinary students to work on passion projects, with an emphasis on opening a space to diverse crowds of students. Juggling multiple projects alone in a dorm room or apartment can feel isolating, so they turned Sundays into an opportunity to surround and inspire themselves with USC’s most passionate builders and creatives.

The philosophy of these coworking sessions lies in the fact that everyone loves hearing about each other’s projects, and great creative work is done together, across backgrounds and disciplines. The co-working sessions are recurring, consistent, and accessible, and at any given session there could be screenwriters working on a film, artists learning 3D modeling, designers creating a brand, and builders coding software products. For example, at my first coworking session, I was working in Capcut to edit TikTok videos while someone to my left was researching AI, and someone to my right was preparing a pitch for a VC competition. I met IYA majors, Computer Games majors, CSBA majors, and PhD students. I met software designers and web designers, and I even spotted someone working with a circuit board.

The beauty of Sundays@USC comes from its strict pomodoro structure, with 60 minutes of deep work followed by a ten minute break. Each session also ends with demos – an opportunity for people to show others what they’ve been working on. Ultimately people come to Sundays to inspire and be inspired.

Sundays@USC is not just a space for people to work on what they care about; it’s a space for learning, growing, and trying new things knowing that there’s a community behind you to support you.

After my first session, I completed a TikTok series, created a curriculum for a new AI entertainment club I’m starting at USC with a few friends, and made a new UI/UX design for an EV charging app I submitted to a hackathon. I felt accomplished and inspired to keep building and creating, and most importantly, I connected with new people at each 10 minute break and made a few new friends. Until next week!

To learn more about Sundays, find them at www.sundays.rsvp or on Instagram at @sundaysatusc. Come to an event, and join the creative playground!

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