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Playlist: So You’re Panicking About Graduate School

A.E. Osworth
Aug 14, 2012

Perhaps you are taking the GRE tomorrow. Perhaps you’re starting school in two weeks. Perhaps you’re 20 pages into your dissertation with a bajillion more to go. I sympathize with all of you. I fall into the first category, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand the heart-thudding, insomnia-inducing, gut-splitting panic that we all go through in the name of academia, regardless of what stage we’re in. This play list perfectly expresses the arc of emotion I feel every time I start saying, “HOLY FUCK I WILL FLIP BURGERS AT MCDONALD’S THIS WILL BE MY FUTURE FOREVER I JUST KNOW IT.” From songs that validate the panic to songs to soothe it to confidence boosters, I hope it applies to all your hysteria-causing school situations. And remember, you will do fine. We’re on The Edge of Glory and we’re Ready To Go.

STREAM THE PLAYLIST HERE

I Wish I Could Go Back to College – Original Broadway Cast, Avenue Q
I’m Shakin’ – Rooney
Panic – Sublime With Rome
Panic – The Smiths
Do The Panic – Phantom Planet
Don’t Panic – Coldplay
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Fergie
Be Ok (Acoustic) – Ingrid Michaelson
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – The Beatles
Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
The Edge of Glory – Lady Gaga
Ready To Go [Get Me Out Of My Mind] – Panic! At the Disco

So You’re Panicking About Graduate School from Autostraddle on 8tracks Radio.

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