Mac Miller and the Power of Music

Mac Miller provided the soundtrack to the best 16 weeks of my life at SUNY Oneonta. His Kickin’ Incredibly Dope Shit (K.I.D.S.) mixtape dropped a week before the start of my third semester up in Oneonta.

My first two semesters were amazing. They didn’t have on campus housing for me as a transfer so I was living off campus as a “super freshman”, essentially.

I rented a room in a 3 bedroom apartment that was in a large house that had been remodeled into 4 stand-alone apartments. Everyone in the other 3 apartments knew each other and had planned to…