u/marisssy

I've listened to most of his songs in the Djesse series and I can't say I resonate or fully understand his music. But I can definitely say he has a strong, very very strong mastery of music. Ik a lot of people when the 2025 nominations were first released were like who tf is Jacob Collier and Andre 3000. This goes for both, but the way they packaged their albums is exactly the artistic excellence the committee strives to honor. How high a album charted, how well it performed live, how strongly groups of committee members leaned toward their respective genres, how well it was campaigned, a masterful composition of songs will always be noticed strongly above all those other things.

It makes me wonder considering his last two Djesse albums were in AOTY, how likely The Light for Days will continue his streak.

Attended a CSU many years ago (dropped out during covid era), had no idea why I was even in college to be honest and my grades drastically reflected that. Extremely depressed at the time, in the hospital many times, literally almost died at one point, those experiences were a long time ago! Embarrassing to say the least but my GPA from the CSU was quite literally just above a 2.0. I attempted 78 credits and earned 61. This includes 20 upper division credits attempted and 15 credits earned. Apparently this makes me ineligible for UC Berkeley, UCLA and other schools I was interested in like UCSB, SDSU, Cal Poly, etc.

Now that I've had time off I have a better grasp of what I want to do with my life moving forward (Neuroscience/Art/Disability Studies research, creating Assistive Technologies for cognitively disabled folks to enrich their quality of life, PhD maybe joint MD) and I'm vying for school again. I started CCC this Spring, earned my first 4.0 ever with 17 credits (A+ OChem I, can't believe it 🥳) and have a REU set up for the Summer. I had no idea of the upper division limitations and if Berkeley, UCLA are out of the picture, what other options would I have? Yale Eli Whitney is a super close 2nd choice of mine, not sure how badly my former GPA is gonna hold me back with significant number of C's, few D's, F's. I'm sure I'm not the first person out there who experienced large life setbacks, and was wondering if anyone on here may shed insight into how they bounced back to a T25 and killed it in life. I'm committed to having the best experience out of my REU regardless!