• University of Southern California Living
  • Banking
  • Housing
    • JavaScript highlight keyword on page
  • Health insurance
  • PEMS
  • Anonymization

University of Southern California Living

Banking

• no international wire transfer: SoFi, Chime
• US-citizen-only: ally

Housing

(from Haodong)

places

• DPS
• downtown
• farther: Santa Monica and Culver City (closer to the beach and Hollywood); Monterey Park and San Gabriel (tons of Chinese food and markets); Koreatown (many Korean food, markets and great hair saloons); Pasadena (a bit far but peaceful and beautiful)

house vs apartment: house old, apartment expensive & small & have maintenance

website: Zillow

careful for: heat, floor noise

JavaScript highlight keyword on page

function highlight(regex, classes) {
    let regExp = new RegExp(regex, "gi");
    let openTag = `<span class="${classes.join(' ')}">`;

    function processNode(node) {
        if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
            let parent = node.parentNode;
            if (parent && parent.nodeName !== "SCRIPT" && parent.nodeName !== "STYLE") {
                let html = node.nodeValue;
                if (regExp.test(html)) {
                    let newHtml = html.replace(regExp, function(match) {
                        return `${openTag}${match}</span>`;
                    });
                    let span = document.createElement("span");
                    span.innerHTML = newHtml;
                    parent.replaceChild(span, node);
                }
            }
        } else {
            let childNodes = Array.from(node.childNodes);
            childNodes.forEach(child => processNode(child));
        }
    }

    processNode(document.body);
}

highlight(String.raw`\b(?:\$[\d,]+|(?:\d,?)?\d{3})\b`, ["highlight"]);
highlight(String.raw`\b(?:female|girls?|wom[ea]n)`, ["highlight-neg"]);

let style = document.createElement("style");
style.innerHTML = `
    .highlight {
        background-color: yellow;
    }
    .highlight-neg {
        color: red;
    }
`;
document.head.appendChild(style);

Health insurance

PhD student are automatically silently enrolled in USC Aetna Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)

• health portal for question/appointment https://www.usc.edu/myshr
• Delta Dental https://www.deltadentalins.com/usc (800-765-6003)
  • policy/enrollee number is 10-digit USC ID number
  • benefit list https://www1.deltadentalins.com/group-sites/usc/ppo.html

PEMS

(for automatically completing part of the “training”)

Staying safe:

function clickAll() {
    const down = document.getElementsByClassName("lesson-nav-link__link")[1];
    if (down) {
        console.log(down);
        down.click();
    }
    const cont = document.getElementsByClassName("continue-btn")[0];
    if (cont) {
        console.log(cont);
        cont.click();
    }
    for (const expand of document.getElementsByClassName("blocks-accordion__header")) {
        if (expand.ariaExpanded === "false") {
            expand.click();
        }
    }
    for (const select of document.getElementsByClassName("blocks-tabs__header-item--after-active")) {
        if (select.ariaSelected === "false") {
            select.click();
        }
    }
    setTimeout(clickAll, 200);
}
clickAll();

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Students:

function clickAll() {
    const next = document.getElementById("next");
    if (next) {
        console.log(next);
        next.click();
    }
    const cont = document.getElementsByClassName("ng-binding")[0];
    if (cont) {
        console.log(cont);
        cont.click();
    }
    for (const expand of document.getElementsByClassName("accordian-btn")) {
        if (expand.ariaExpanded === "false") {
            expand.click();
        }
    }
    setTimeout(clickAll, 200);
}
clickAll();

Anonymization

student directory obfuscated URL:

uscdirectory.usc.edu/web/directory/student/#first=ic&last=e&email=gh&major=csci