Every year, as soon as it starts to feel like Fall, I make a music mix to reflect how I'm feeling at the onset of the season. The word "leaves" is usually somewhere in the title. A couple of years ago it was Vintage Leaves (Volumes 1 and 2). But this year, as I'm right on the brink of finishing the grad program, I decided to name it after a quote by the eminently quotable Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Sometimes a sceam is better than a thesis."

So, it is the Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis: Fall Compilation. I'm pleased with myself. I managed to get, in a very seamless progression, the likes of both 50 Cent and Shawn Colvin on this playlist.