Homework Break!

As a college student I have discovered that when attempting to do homework we are easily distracted and will often actually search for things on the web to waste our time on.  Rather than trying to focus on studying and academics (the reason we are actually here), we find things to fill every boring moment.  In my opinion the most popular sites people like to fiddle around on are facebook, bored.com, YouTube, myspace, and google.  I often get bored with my homework, log on to facebook, and look at random meaningless pictures for hours.  Knowing how excited I get when people give me a reason to be distracted or slack off, so I thought I would provide this little break for you guys too.

Although everyone loves YouTube, I'm not usually the kind of person who goes and watches things like this, but lately I have found something new that has really caught my interest... Bo Burnham.  You may have heard of him, but if you haven't here is the run-down.  He is an 18 year old guy from Boston who likes to make up songs with his guitar and keyboard.  They range from rapping to nice melodies and everything in between.  He sings a little bit about his life, but mostly he uses well thought out satire and word play to complete his tracks.  He has become famous because of his videos on YouTube and has even become so well known that you can now buy his music on iTunes.  In my opinion though, the songs just aren't the same if you can't see him actually performing and recording them like you can in the videos.  His most popular tracks are My Whole Family, Bo Fo Sho, and (my favorite) Cookout.  Some of the lines can be slightly offensive, but it's all supposed to be for fun.  If you are one who likes to start arguments and uproars about nothing, I would suggest that you not click on the links.  These are for people who are looking for a good laugh and maybe some quotable lines down the road.  

One of my friends introduced me to him and now I'm hooked.  Instead of going on facebook as often, now I will go watch Bo and not only waste my time slightly more productively, but I'm honestly entertained and don't feel like I lose thousands of brain cells when I watch it!   So when you are obviously procrastinating and looking for a good way out of homework, go check out Bo. I promise you won't be disappointed.