Chauvin is the 7th on-duty cop to be convicted of murder since 2005, out of around 15,000 police killings in that time.

Actually, my Beethoven seminar paper is entitled “Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven (and NOT Mozart),” thank you very much

Behind the scenes trying to get better at DJing at 6 AM WFHB

New first day of class tradition: watching just that 2 minute montage in Legally Blonde where Elle Woods gets her shit together

I know parks and rec is probably not that relevant anymore but I can only communicate my feelings today through Chris Traeger quotes

Venn diagram of musicologists who "take themselves seriously" on twitter and scholars that use their sense of moral/intellectual superiority to delegitimize others' work and dismiss it as "not serious"

Maybe the real beethoven costume party was the friends we made along the way

Thinking about going by Liz or Lizzie now even though I’m 24 just to feel something

Placing holds on library books is my retail therapy equivalent

"If the only thing you’re ever going to let us do is write about Black things, but you have white people covering the Black things, when are we ever gonna get a chance to write?" read Adlan Jackson's longform on segregation at the heart of music journalism: bit.ly/3oH5wJU

Getting accepted into a PhD program with a stipend is pretty nice but like having your ruthless editor professor recommend you for a paid public writing project? Priceless.

Sam Smucker: “Now what you have is the provost really bullying departments into undermining the strike, threatening graduate employees, dividing the departments against each other in this process. It’s ugly what they’re doing.” chronicle.com/article/a-univ…