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College Lessons Learned from Music

Or, what happens when you think about the future while you shuffle through your iPod

Sep 15, 2015

Christopher Newport University

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College Lessons Learned from Music

College is a time of personal growth and change for many people. You get to experience new things and take time to figure out who you are as a person in this great wide world, all for the small price of heavy student loans and crippling future debt! Sounds like an awesome deal, right? Tuition fees aside, college really is an opportunity to learn about yourself and your place in the world. Here is a list of important lessons that you learn in college, told by some sweet jams:

Being an adult means no one is looking out for you. Start doing things for yourself.

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"Ain’t It Fun" by Paramore

“So what are you gonna do / When the world don’t orbit around you?”

You are lucky if you’ve got your life together. Everyone’s stressed out.

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"Stressed Out" by twenty one pilots

“I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink / But now I’m insecure and I care what people think.”

You won't always get what you want, and that's OK.

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"Needing/Getting" by OK Go

"Yeah, I still need you, but what good is that gonna do? / Needing is one thing, and getting's another."

Getting older does not cure you of awkwardness...

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A Question by Bombadil

“Excuse me, but I have a little trepidation / So I’m already a bit awkward.”

...But don't be afraid to tell someone how you feel because of it.

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"Hold It In" by Jukebox the Ghost

"Life is 'Oh my God, if I tell him, he'll tell her, and then she will know I like her!' / Good grief, I don't think I can take this heartbreak any longer."

Life is too short to worry about what you have and don't have.

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"Can't Complain" by Relient K

"And I know that life is gonna suck some days / But I can't complain."

You will be happiest when you accept yourself.

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"I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin DeGraw

"I don't have to be anyone other / Than the birth of two souls in one / Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from."

You (and everyone else) are flawed.

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"Flaws" by Bastille

"We need them to be who we are / Without them we'll be doomed."

You aren't the only one who has no clue what you're doing.

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"The Future Freaks Me Out" by Motion City Soundtrack

"If we can both find a way / To do the things that we say / We might not sit in our rooms / And drink our daydreams away."

You have the power to enact change in the world, but it is up to you to go out and do it.

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"Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer

"Now we see everything that's going wrong / With the world and those who lead it / We just feel like we don't have the means / To rise above and beat it."

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