Saturday, November 9, 2013

The November VidShizzle.

There are two questions I'm always asked about these VidShizzles. 1) Will you please stop fucking making them? And 2) Are you making fun of students?

The first one I have just answered, I think. The second one is complicated. Like most of you, I love and hate the profession. We all know the joys and misery that come in twin streams.

But when I scour YouTube for college vlogs, I also swing wildly, hating some of the entitlement and stupidity (which was just like me at 18), but also feeling real heartbreak for students who haven't yet hit their stride. (It took me until my second grad school to start to figure shit out.)

But, I love the young people, truly. When I laugh at them, I'm laughing at myself as well. And when my heart breaks for them, like one girl in this vidshizzle, I feel my own heartbreak from my long ago college days.


9 comments:

  1. Cal, I love them. It is like an accident that you can't look away. I also, can' watch just one. After the video, I always click another on you tube, because they are so addicting. Thanks.

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  2. Keep the videos. People that don't like them don't have to hit the 'Play" button. If the video goes downhill, they can turn it off.

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  3. Heart breaking indeed. Too often, I feel, faculty lose touch with their old undergraduate self, and I can see these videos helping with that.

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  4. Keep the best, laborcamp the rest.

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  5. I love the vidshizzles! They show so much of what their brains are like.

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  6. Sob stories. They practice them in their dorms.

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  7. I usually (not always, but usually) find myself liking the kids in the vidshizzles. The kids on the twitter feeds, though . . . I want to slap them.

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    1. I refuse to join the twitter world because of that. I'm afraid that level of rage would give me an aneurism.

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    2. I don't know how to Twit. I have tried.

      I can't figure it out.

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