Playlist: It’s the Final Countdown

There’s something bittersweet about finally coming face-to-face with your last undergraduate semester. Here’s a collection of songs for those of you who have already checked out and for those of you who are ignoring the end alike. We have highs and lows to go yet.

Written by Arundhati Ghosh

Illustrated by Isabel Alvarez

The last four years have ebbed and flowed within, around, and past us. As cap and gown photoshoots, “semester 8”Instagram captions, and drunken post-commencement fountain dips loom, many of us are filled with equal parts hope and trepidation for what comes after. Sometimes, all there’s left to do is take a minute and face the music. Listen to the cathartic instrumental anguish in Fall Out Boy’s “I Am My Own Muse,” and chase it with the future-facing joie de vivre of Aries’ lyrics in “FOOL’S GOLD.” We’re in the home stretch now, class of 2024. What you’ve started here will change your world for the better.