By Amanda Gentry

It's late Monday afternoon,and I'm Gchatting classmates as my graduate course trundles into its second hour. Our instructor speaks in a monotone that could cure insomnia and the subject matter - plots of differences of log baselines hazard ratios - isn't exactly blowing my skirt up. Our banter typically includes URLs for the shoes we're thinking about buying or the latest funny Elite Daily article we read. Amidst this, a classmate drops the link with a comment about my favorite band, Mumford & Sons.