Your College Admissions Theme Song

Applying to College
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<p>What is your theme song when it comes to college admissions? Or life at the moment in general?</p>

<p>Mine would be “Extraordinary Machine” by Fiona Apple:</p>

<p>“Extraordinary Machine”</p>

<p>I certainly haven’t been shopping for any new shoes
-And-
I certainly haven’t been spreading myself around
I still only travel by foot and by foot, it’s a slow climb,
But I’m good at being uncomfortable, so
I can’t stop changing all the time</p>

<p>I notice that my opponent is always on the go
-And-
Won’t go slow, so’s not to focus, and I notice
He’ll hitch a ride with any guide, as long as
They go fast from whence he came

  • But he’s no good at being uncomfortable, so
    He can’t stop staying exactly the same</p>

<p>If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can’t help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine</p>

<p>I seem to you to seek a new disaster every day
You deem me due to clean my view and be at peace and lay
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way, and say,
I’ve been getting along for long before you came into the play</p>

<p>I am the baby of the family, it happens, so

  • Everybody cares and wears the sheeps’ clothes
    While they chaperone
    Curious, you looking down your nose at me, while you appease
  • Courteous, to try and help - but let me set your
    Mind at ease</p>

<p>(Chorus)</p>

<p>-Do I so worry you, you need to hurry to my side?
-It’s very kind
But it’s to no avail; I don’t want the bail
I promise you, everything will be just fine</p>

<p>If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can’t help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine</p>

<p>Lol. I really am the baby of the family.</p>

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<p>For life in general at the moment:</p>

<p>The Hives - Return the Favour</p>

<p>Well we’d talk and talk and talk about it
But talk would do no good
We have little to next to nothing to talk about</p>

<p>And we’d talk and talk and talk around it
But talk would do no good
We have little to next to nothing to talk about</p>

<p>So nothing went from nothing then
And then back to the nothing I expected when
I return the favour
Is it time to go home?</p>

<p>Ooh ooh</p>

<p>Now we can talk and talk and talk about it
Talk until we’re blue
It’s just a big jug full of stupid passing thru</p>

<p>It’s like a boxer’s goodbye, I’ll see you Cassius Clayter
In French Muhammed ¡ Oui
Yeah we have little to next to nothing to talk about</p>

<p>So nothing went from nothing then
And then back to the nothing I expected when
I return the favour
Is it time to go home?</p>

<p>It’s a waste of time and a waste of space
It’s just taproom talk through a drunken haze
I return the favour
Guess it’s time to go home</p>

<p>Ooh ooh</p>

<p>I got my mind made up and it’s getting clear
There’s better things to go than staying here
I return the favour
and leave on my own</p>

<p>Ooh ooh</p>

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<p>For senior year in general: [“This</a> Year”](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYCzDhaRV60"]"This”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYCzDhaRV60) by The Mountain Goats. “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me…”</p>

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<p>Theme song for college admissions? “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey. Self-explanatory.</p>

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<p>Mine would be the Halo 3 Battle of Earth Theme song.</p>

<p>That pretty much sums up the whole experience in my eyes.</p>

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<p>Dukeball, that’s a good one.</p>

<p>Dooon’t stop! Beliiiiiieeevin’! <–That’s me singing it online. Oh yes.</p>

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<p>“Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” by the Smiths.</p>

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<p>Hold on to that feeliiiiiiiing!</p>

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<p>“It’s the end of the world as we know it” by REM was the first one that came to mind. =P</p>

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<p>Probably “Army of Me” by Bjork.</p>

<p>End-of-year and graduation song though will totally be “Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac.</p>

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<p>More on the actual college admissions process feelings, I’m definitely feeling “The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World.</p>

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<p>Can my college admission song be a Christmas song? Like “Thank God Its Christmas” by Queen?</p>

<p>Christmas = Finished with apps = return to normalcy</p>

<p>But also…waiting…waiting…waiting.</p>

<p>Not only for admissions letters, but ACT scores. Which I’ve heard are sketchily handed out late.</p>

<p>Um sorry. TMI. But I pick an xmas song! Weee.</p>

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<p>Wow! I’m not the only person that does this? I have a song for maybe, every year of HS? Junior year, I actually have three!</p>

<p>Anyway, for Senior year/Applications/Colleges it’s Without a Fight by Hoobastank.</p>

<p>WOOOOOOO!!</p>

<p>WAKE UP, our life is calling! We’re smoke, but not on fire!
Give us a sign that we’re alive!</p>

<p>SNAP OUT of indecision! Have we been hypnotized!
To think that everything’s all right!</p>

<p>The clock is counting down… The clock is counting down!
The seconds tick away… The seconds tick away!</p>

<p>This is our time! Without a doubt!
Time to ignite! We’re not going down!
(Without a fight)</p>

<p>This is our time! Get up off the ground!
Take what is mine! We’re not going down,
Without a fight!</p>

<p>LET’S GO, the curtain’s open! Get this show on the road!
I wanna feel my heart explode!</p>

<p>NO MORE procrastination! Draggin’ my feet below!
Now I want everyone to know!</p>

<p>The clock is counting down… The clock is counting down!
The seconds tick away… The seconds tick away!</p>

<p>This is our time! Without a doubt!
Time to ignite! We’re not going down!
(Without a fight)</p>

<p>This is our time! Get up off the ground!
Take what is mine! We’re not going down,
Without a fight!</p>

<p>YEAH! COME ON! COME ON! COME ON!</p>

<p>COME ON! COME ON! COME ON!</p>

<p>We must pick up the pace! No time to play it safe!
Before you know it’s much too late!</p>

<p>This is our time! Without a doubt!
Time to ignite! We’re not going down!
(Without a fight)</p>

<p>This is our time! Get up off the ground!
Take what is mine! We’re not going down,
Without a fight!</p>

<p>FIGHT! [16x]</p>

<p>WHOOOOOOOOOOO-hoow… hahaha</p>

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<p>^ Lmao.</p>

<p>This thread is so dorky. I love it.</p>

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<p>I already have my rejection song picked out: “Say It Ain’t So” by Weezer</p>

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<p>^ Excellent choice.</p>

<p>That song is so pretty and the subject of it cracks me up. I feel silly singing it.</p>

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<p>Lol, @dvm, that song just seems like it was MADE for the college admissions process.</p>

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<p>“It’s the final countdown…”</p>

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<p>Senior Year -> Vienna by Billy Joel.</p>

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<p>boulevard of broken dreams, green day</p>

<p>…or summergirls by lfo…</p>