True story. I took 22 credits to graduate in time for a $70k position (in 1999!) that was dissolved in a hiring freeze two weeks before my matriculation. Which meant getting general requirements and such out of the way. My last final of my last class was "Intro to Pop Song" a survey music class for non-music majors. The last aspect of that final was questions on Ice T's "Colors." So I walked out the door of the largest lecture hall of the largest PAC-12 (then PAC-10) school with "I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking / King of my jungle just a gangster stalking" playing in the background. Six months later, I was in charge of a half million dollar audiovisual renovation of said-same giant lecture hall. It made the trades. My first real job as an AV consultant was redesigning the system that played me out as a student. Congratulations. The world is your oyster. One door closes, another opens... and the money flows the other way now, bitch. It's a hell of a feeling.