Playlist: A Rage and Triple Shot Espresso-Fueled, Type A Personality Power Trip
It isn’t really finals season until you’re hopped up on caffeine in the library at 4:37 a.m. and blasting rock music into your eardrums at a volume so loud that you can definitely hear the fifth dimension.
Written by Arundhati Ghosh
Illustrated by Haley Wood
It’s 9:02 on a Friday night, and you’ve just about given up on studying, regardless of how accomplished you feel for the day. Just as you’re about to tuck yourself into bed and scroll through Twitter for the next (at least) four hours, you get a text… and then another text… and then another.
“Let’s study together!” one of your friends says.
“It’ll be fun,” another adds on. It won’t even feel like studying!” If the devil speaks, he’s doing so directly into your ear right now.
For a moment, you heavily consider changing your number and dropping off the face of the planet. Once said moment passes, you let out a heavy sigh and text back an affirmative. More studying can only help, right? You convince yourself of this as you pack up all of your things, finally throwing something way too caffeinated for your own good into your backpack before zipping it up and getting ready to go out. Phone in hand, keys around neck, wallet in back pocket… the only thing you’ve got left to figure out is what to listen to to keep yourself feeling like you can do just about anything while looking at charts or editing papers, well past the clock striking 12.
Question everything with Chevelle’s “Fizgig,” release some of your fears with Iron Maiden’s “Hallowed Be Thy Name,” and drown the outside world out with the steady electric guitar and passionate vocals on “COMA” by Issues. Center yourself with the bouncy beats and Beatles-esque crooning in Spendtime Palace’s “Get It Straight.” Let the classic, recognizable beat and grainy vocals of “Rock You Like a Hurricane” by the Scorpions remind you that you’ve got this. Lose yourself in the music so you don’t lose yourself in the stress of the finals home stretch.