Retrospective coverage for October 15, 2026. First published October 26, 2026 06:07 -07:00 (Pacific time). This is an AI-assisted brief compiled from linked public source records; the coverage date is not the publication date.
UC San Diego introduced a crowdsourced alumni playlist Oct. 15, gathering songs that former students associate with campus life. The university’s Homecoming project, The Sounds of Coming Home, connects recordings with memories spanning several graduating classes. University feature
Leena Khattat, a 2025 graduate, associated the Beatles’ In My Life with early shifts at Fairbanks Coffee. Hanako Primer, class of 2024, recalled playing Reel Big Fish’s Sell Out after discovering the campus pep band on Library Walk.
Other selections reached further back. Alan Wetti, a 1986 graduate, remembered a Plimsouls performance at a campus gathering, while men’s basketball coach Clint Allard, class of 2008, connected Usher’s Yeah! with first-year suitemates at Revelle College.
The university collected the recollections and linked them to a Spotify playlist. Together, the selections emphasize ordinary campus routines—work shifts, residence halls and student music groups—as well as concerts, giving the Homecoming collection a personal rather than strictly chronological structure.