It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap on the internet so I feel accomplished" moments. Are you ready? Can you handle it?

I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?"

Look, I saw all of these videos while attending here, meaning that something about the environment caused me to watch them. Also, many were shown to me by other students, so I'd say that the content matter of these videos is pretty much in line with the interest levels of MIT Blog Readers. That being said, enjoy!

First, and most importantly, Dan Sauza's Gamer Ballad is a must watch. He performed it at the Conner 2 talent show tonight and rocked the house. Enjoy, and then go over to YouTube and rate it 5 stars. We're going to turn this thing into a YouTube phenomenon, alright? I need your help though, push it to the top!

The Gamer Ballad

And now for the rest

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isn't it like.... 3 o'clock on the east coast??

funny videos btw..

Posted by: yukiko on May 11, 2008

Yes, it's 3:23. I kinda just forgot to go to sleep.

Posted by: Snively on May 11, 2008

wow.. for you did it seem like every year you slept an hour later since high school?

Posted by: yukiko on May 11, 2008

Actually, no, I still like to go to bed at a reasonable hour, tonight is weird.

Posted by: Snively on May 11, 2008

Haha, I love the "We didn't start the fire" one. I've seen it before, but it's still amazing.

As for the pelican eating the pigeon, funny story. So I was in London, on a tour, and we get to that park. So the tour guide starts talking about how one year there were no fish in the lake and the pelicans were all starving, so I go "OMG, they started eating pigeons!! Someone showed me that video on youtube!" and kinda scared everyone. Apparently the news people flung a bunch of pigeons at them to get a good news story. Looks like it worked

Posted by: Tamara on May 11, 2008

man, Snively loves Youtube.

Posted by: Julie Perkins on May 11, 2008

Muse is freaking awesome! Saw them last October in Helsinki, they were amazing...

Posted by: JJJK on May 11, 2008

Hey, you never blogged about steer roast. how was it?

Posted by: jeff on May 11, 2008

*dial-up crashing*

Living in the boonies sucks. :(
The dial-up will only load about a minute of video. Sadness.

Posted by: KelseyK on May 11, 2008

AWESOME Snively. This is definitely another side of MIT we don't get to see from an admissions officer. But they rock too!

Posted by: Kevin Xu on May 11, 2008

It's fairly normal for MIT students to start staying awake through times that they would've never seen in high school =D

Posted by: Piper on May 11, 2008

wow, that is a lot of YouTube.

Posted by: Chris on May 11, 2008

AND I LOVE MUSE!

Posted by: chris on May 11, 2008

isn't it kind of funny that you posted all these vids and had the warning "dial-up users beware" when you yourself have had to deal with a lot of dial-up related issues?

Posted by: anonymous on May 11, 2008

I showed the pigeon video to my boss at work. He watches a lot of YouTube when he's supposed to be making me carry pancakes.

We actually found a 5 minute long version of it, where the pigeon fights to not get eaten for about 3 minutes, and the pelican looks rather content at eating a pigeon for the last minute. Definitely scarring.

Posted by: Karen on May 12, 2008

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