Yours truly has made a medical breakthrough!

Today I discovered that, for males, the strongest antidepressant possible is in fact Lady GaGa pumped directly into the eardrums.

The math quiz today was the easiest one we've had all year, and I completely blew the first problem because I took the integral of the wrong thing. Because I am apparently retarded. In any case, I was extremely disappointed with myself, and when that happens I get angsty and depressed.

SO, that continued until lunch, after which I played "Boys Boys Boys" on the walk back to the dorm, and I swear to God it is impossible for a dude to keep a straight face listening to that song. The chorus goes "Boys boys boys" and then a crowd of girl voices goes "We love them! We love them!" and I just CRACKED UP in the middle of passing Drumheller fountain and probably confused some geese. And now I am happy.

[Please note that the above is amusing only if the chorus line does not actually apply to me. Just making sure there wasn't any confusion.]

I've been pondering what the analogue for females would be, and the best I can think of is the sound track for Team America: World Police (e.g. "America...F*CK YEAH!!")

So yes. The key to preventing depression is not to take psychoactive drugs that have a good chance of making your depression worse; instead you just have to happen to music that is so out of character as to be ridiculous. I think that this would also only work if you have a sense of humor. That always helps.