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10 o’clock List: Top 5 Weirdest YouTube Subgenres

January 22, 2013 By in Departments Tags: , , , 1 Comment
Thrill, meet Frank

Thrill, meet Frank

With Gambier dropping the cold bomb on us out of NOWHERE, how does Kenyon expect us to leave our toasty beds with duvets on duvets on duvets? Do they really expect me to go to class wearing nothing but layers? Ha! Ha! Ha! I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve made the decision to stay indoors and scour the deep, terrifying bowels of YouTube. With a site that boasts 72 hours of video uploaded every minute, there’s a wide breadth of genres, ranging from the wacky, to the relaxing, to the downright absurd. So it’s tonight I share with you the Five Strangest Corners of YouTube, denoted by weird sub-genre:

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10 o’clock list: Best Videos to “Help You Study”

December 16, 2012 By in Departments Tags: , , , 2 Comments

After a while, you just can’t justify distracting yo’ self in Olin anymore. That’s when you turn to the videos that ostensibly are helping you study, but that are really just hilarious.

Philosophers’ Football Match (Political Science or Philosophy, featured above) — This classic Monty Python sketch provides a good quick overview of the main German and Greek philosophers, their claims to fame, and what positions they play on the soccer pitch. And if you can’t think of a good answer for your Classical Quest essay prompt about Aristotle, just claim he was offside and so nothing he said counted.

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