A love letter of music in my four years in Georgetown

I hear the fifth anniversary edition of Conan Grey's Kid Krow (2020) In the bathroom of my Jes Res, the department for the final year, which I share with four of my closest friends. I am in tears when I quietly witnessed the newly published live version of “The Cut, who always bleeds”. While I am currently not suffering from gaping, loving wounds, this version fills me with a little deeply wistful. When I was obsessed with this song for the first time, I sang it in my newcomer in my new South Dorm year after my sister and I saw Gray in concert. I slipped over the vinyl floors in socks, while “Maniac” played and the noises of cars were sitting on the HFSC balcony with “watching people”. Two of my earliest pieces for the Agree was actually over Conan Gray. One could say that the Freshman Spring was my “Conan semester”.

Taylor Swift published midnight (2022) in my second autumn. I was sitting on the bottom bunk of my Kennedy dormitory and analyzing the album track per track while my best friend slept in bed. The moment I reached the bridge from “You are alone, child”, everything was ground to a standstill: “From sprinkler splashes to chimney / I gave my blood, sweat and tears for it.” I struggled to keep my relationship to academic validation afloat in this semester. But every time I played this song, I felt in his authenticity. I would listen to it when I was sitting in the Dahlgren chapel at night and used it like a mantra in front of the exams: “Take the moment and try it / you have no reason to be afraid.” This song will always bring me back to the second autumn, but not old scars will be opened again. Well, “you are alone, kid” is the recognition of how I survived this semester and how proud I am of the care that I built into my academic career.

In January of my second spring I realized AgreeThe leisure department – at least not enough to talk to them outside of Leave 424. I decided to participate in my first Agree Party and now look back my camera role, there are two videos from that night that capture the moment that everything has changed. In the first case, I sing Taylor Swift's “Better Than Revenge” in my lungs, surrounded by four girls who would be my best friends in free time. In the second class we shout the bridge to the “cruel summer” with a smile. It was the first time in Georgetown that I returned part of a community, a corner of the campus, in which my love for music and film was returned with the same zeal. In everyone there was “better than revenge” Agree The party moved and I screamed every time with the same girls.

When I discovered Maisie Peters' “History of Man” for the first time in Junior Spring, I played the song repeatedly for weeks. I sang it in my Vil -B bedroom and soaked the texts into my skin when I crossed the farm to get to the lessons. It was a “corn semester” for me. “Since it works” started my morning and told me that the universe shifted in my favor. “The good witch” served as a memory that I am constantly surrounded by love. And I turned around “run” when I wanted to suck the boys. The good witch .

Of course there was more music. So much more, I can't count. There was Noah Kahan's Stick season (we will all be here forever) (2023) When I returned to campus after the loss of my grandfather in Junior autumn. The Percy Jackson Musically when my friend and I worked on orgio laboratory reports at three in the morning. Rihanna, when my roommates and I got ready to go out, outfit compliments fly to the left and right. And grip dizziness (2024) When I watched the sunset from our Jes Res window, it was a view of the Potomac, which I asked for the first year.

My relationship to music changed completely in college. Regardless of whether I danced, sang, slept, cried or shoveled oatmeal in my mouth when I went to class, my Spotify brought me through everything. I had curated the songs when I had to concentrate in a Lau -Kabine or when I had to feel understood. I put together playlists for myself and others and sat on oh so many sofas with friends who sang new publications. Combined with every song, an independent memory of a “who” and “where” in Georgetown, small landmarks that I remind me of my college years. In addition, they remind me of how much I have grown since I moved to this new South dormitory. Many thanks to music and thanks to Georgetown. I will remember long after leaving the hill.

Love, Nikki

Nikkis Top 10 most influential albums of college (in chronological order):

1. Kid Krow (2020) by Conan Gray
2. Future nostalgia (2020) from Dua Lipa
3. Aurora (2023) by Daisy Jones & The Six
4. The data record (2023) by Boygenius
5. Stick season (we will all be here forever) (2023) by Noah Kahan
6. The good witch (2023) by Maisie Peters
7. Zach Bryan (2023) by Zach Bryan
8. We don't trust you (2024) by Future and Metro Boomin
9. Secret of us (2024) by Gracie Abrams
10. The entire discography of Taylor Swift