College Videos: Wasted Time and Time Well Spent
November 19, 2009 | Nathaniel
Ha. Can't waste too much time here.
College. The place you learn how to waste hours upon hours of precious studying time on, what else?
That’s how most college kids spend their time if they’ve got a computer anywhere near them. Hm? No, what’s Facebook?
Not only do college kids watch videos on the online library known as Youtube, but vast hours upon hours are wasted just as diligently on sites like Vimeo, iTunes, CNN (really?), ABC News, or any number of these or their incarnations.
In fact, college kids are watching the MOST internet videos. At any time. Any where. Of anything. Go on. Pick the genre. Music? Pranks? Art? College kids are guaranteed watching more than you. Unless you yourself are a kid in college. Sorry, scholastic scholarly scholar. Now, alliterated student, doth thou watch yon videos?
Of course! Who wants to write the term paper they were assigned when they could watch a boy become a spectacle after receiving too much morphine at the dentist’s office. Don’t forget the t-shirts you can buy simply by clicking on the link.Do any students out there waste so much time on video sharing sites that their grades are affected? There’s gotta be. Probability declares it so. I don’t feel like doing the research though. Too lazy. I’d much rather watch online videos.
Or better yet, tell you that there are students online taking care of their assignments through video. There are lots of studious success stories and viral video sensations out there. Some kid with the moniker Urban Ninja (Youtube it. Trust me.) used to jump out and scare people from various random places in public space (bushes, trees, trash cans, etc) dressed as a ninja. Is this the most original idea? Nay. Just ask a ninja. However, it became popular enough to get that guy a gig on MTV’s short-lived television program “Wild n’ Out.”
There are plenty of design students earning fame and a little fortune with the obligatory silk-screened t-shirts as a side project. These shirts are the Robin to the video’s Batman. Always maintain the video as the strong point. Lots of film and video students utilize the internet web-sharing medium when working on their projects.
Have you been wasting lots of time on Youtube? Are you at least creating and uploading intelligent content and contributing to the culture? Are you a college video student? Makin’ videos right now? Postin’ em? Want to start your own video sharing site? Or get a job at one? Turns out you’re not wasting all that time after all, ay?
STUDY HARD!
