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Typical weekend for a non-Greek student: Thursday: Happy Hour Margaritas at La Barca on Vermont with friends from work or a campus organization like the radio station or SCOutfitters. Then Tommy's Place, an on-campus concert venue to hear a friend's band play a gig. If you're lucky, you won't have any classes on Friday to worry about. Friday: Check out a film screening and Q&A in the early evening at the School of Cinematic Arts. After that, head to Menlo Ave., a street filled with students' houses, where sketch comedy troupe Commedus Interruptus is holding a "fundrager" for their next show. Saturday: Sleep in. Grab brunch at Jacks & Joe, where they serve the most outrageous pancakes you've ever had. Get some work done. Head downtown for a concert at the Wiltern, and hopefully make it back in time for the tail end of a DJ set at a Delta Kappa Alpha party (USC's coed cinema fraternity). Sunday: Kick it into high gear and get the work you've been putting off all weekend done. Warning: This may turn into an all-nighter; thank god for a 1 p.m. start time on Monday. Typical weekend for a Greek student: Thursday: House party at a fraternity, complete with a DJ and a sweaty dancefloor. Friday: A registered party at a fraternity - these are the most enormous parties at USC. Frats go all out with themes, decor, and entertainment. Each house has one per semester, so it's go big or go home. Saturday: Sorority philanthropy event to raise money for the house's charity of choice. May take the night off. Then again, probably won't. Sunday: Can't get any work done on the row, so bike over to Leavey Library for the day. Turn on Self Control, get off Facebook, and bury yourself in textbooks.

A student's point of view, biking down USC's busiest street on a typical weekday.