We’ve heard for a while now that British children consistently outshine their American counterparts — they get higher test scores, show better literacy rates, all that jazz. We’re afraid to report that American children have now fallen even further behind in a variety of other areas, including macking dudes up, backing coupes up and chucking the deuce up.

This may be a classic YouTube video from 2007 that’s accumulated over 60 million views, but sometimes you just need to return to nature. If you haven’t seen it, “Battle at Kruger” is the completely true, spontaneous footage of a fight between some buffalo, a pride of lions and a crocodile at a wildlife reserve in South Africa (this is a gross understatement of the footage’s brilliance). Running over 8 minutes, this video is the perfect study break- exhilerating, but not too long. Moreover, it’s a metaphor for group study: showing that with friends, one can triumph over the predator that is ECON1110.

While some of us have spent the last few days enamored by Out of Bounds’ ode to the SciLi, our northern neighbors have shown us up with a seriously professional and delightfully addicting video about their own campus culture.

Since late February, Middlebury kids have been rocking out to the viral anthem celebrating campus stereotypes. “Midd Kid” applauds plaid, flannel, lax bros, Nalgenes, granola and Vermont cheddar, all to the tune of the catchiest song you’ve ever heard.

The video incited some controversy for its depiction of the campus as a party school — though it did pay homage to the campus Quidditch league and “lib”in it up.

The video has spread to the rest of the college scene, infecting productivity in libraries throughout the northeast. As one Bates student wrote:

The past few weeks have found me inhabiting a cubicle on the third floor of Ladd Library, with a dripping coffee mug in hand and headphones plugged in, oblivious to anything but the screen in front of me. Thesis, you may guess. But under this guise of productivity, I am really just watching the “Midd Kid” music video on YouTube over, and over, and over again.

Watch it on repeat. Learn the words. You won’t regret it.

The Lady herself didn’t actually shoot Bad Romance in Rhode Island, but four Warwick college students did create this shot-by-shot remake, involving brilliant low-budget props such as hula hoops, laundry baskets and tinfoil. One of the four teens is starting Army boot camp in June, and he told the Projo that “things in the Army will go a little smoother if they don’t know about this video.”

You’ll be amazed and awed, but probably mostly jealous that you didn’t do it first.

For optimal enjoyment, check out the two videos side-by-side on YouTube doubler.

—Talia Kagan