Between classes and clubs, studying and student orgs, there isn’t much time left in the day for the average Michigan student to surf the Internet and try to catch up to speed on all the new political and cultural happenings taking place outside the bubble that is Ann Arbor. Visiting sites like CNN and Buzzfeed can easily fill you in on what you need to know, but one site can give you everything they can and more, while executing all their material in a more witty way than CNN but a more educational way than Buzzfeed: VICE.

VICE is not only a website, but also a TV show and a magazine that brings raw international news to light through multiple media platforms. After getting hooked on its HBO show this summer through a friend, I haven’t visited another news outlet since,and I’ve never felt more informed about the world around me.  

Whether you’re a die-hard Huffington Post fan, or think reading about news is boring, I hope that after reading a VICE article you won’t be and you won’t think so. Below are links to eight of my favorites right now. You can thank me later.     

1. While Kanye West is undeniably pretentious and married to a woman who tried to break the Internet with a picture of her butt, he can give some pretty good advice.   

2. First, if you haven’t watched HBO’s "True Detective," go do that. Then once you’re done, watch this video on the Louisiana town that may or may not have inspired the chill-inducing hit show. Viewer discretion is advised (actually).   

3. Here is a more light-hearted article that should reassure you there are, in fact, weirder people in the world than you.

4. Michelle Lhooq gives us the fast version of business deals that should be relevant for at least 85% of the college-age population.

5. Never have I felt I’ve understood a candidate more than when Kevin Lincoln compared Bernie Sanders’ platform to someone who is “super into Birkenstocks."   

6. What other news site would give you a comprehensive breakdown on the history of tailgating - the art form we Michigan students perform better than anyone else? Sure, the article refers to us as the “brats in the Midwest”, but we’re without a doubt the BEST brats in the Midwest.      

7. They literally tell you how to be good at playing what some consider to be the greatest video game ever made.   

8. The disappearance and potential massacre of 43 male students from a radical college in Guerrero, Mexico is rattling the country, as the suspected kidnappers and possible killers are local police and a drug gang. Instead of showing his outrage over this still unsolved tragedy with his words or violence, artists are creating inspirational posters to make their voices, and those of the missing boys, heard.