If gaming was never part of my life..

[Espada1]

This reminds me of the time when my mom had to take me to meet with a therapist because I spent so much time gaming. The therapist told me to imagine some of the things I could have achieved if I didn't spent 8 hours a day playing video games.

Like if I put those 8 hours a day on studying I would probably have gone to a university with a Highschool GPA of 4.0+

Or if I put those 8 hours a day on playing say.. tennis, I would probably be a pro.

What do you guys think?

Being good at something is relative to how much time you spent on doing it.

[Orpheus]

How much time you spend doing something is relative to how much satisfaction you get out of doing it.

You could spend 16 hours studying, if you don't like college you won't like college any better and your grades will reflect that.

[SqueezyTime]

There are more than 8 hours in the day, so you can easily play 8 hours of games and do all of that other stuff too. Your life doesn't have to revolve around that one single thing just to be good at it. If you sleep for long or you think 8 hours is too much of your time to do anything else, then just cut down, otherwise there really isn't a problem with it.

I go to school for software engineering, I get all As, and I also write in my spare time. I like to think I'm a good writer; many other people think so too. I write, I study, and I also play video games at least 8 hours a day (or spend a huge fraction of those hours on here). Yeah, I'm not too good at anything else, but that has nothing to do with my gaming; I simply don't care to be good at anything else.

andyeah definitely what Orpheus said. I do just fine in college, because I like it, and I certainly don't study for 8 hours a day.

[Espada1]

Well I was taking in as a perspective of a highschool student.

So sleep, school, eat takes up a lot of the day for me heh.

[Xenonight2]

In-state tuition at Arizona State University is $700 per credit hour, and ASU is a fairly cheap school.

Holy shit, my school in-state is like $256 in-state, and we're a pretty darn well-ranked college.

[SqueezyTime]

Holy shit, my school in-state is like $256 in-state, and we're a pretty darn well-ranked college.

Definitely moving out of Arizona for my Bachelor's lol

[Xenonight2]

I mean holy hell, how does ASU have such a huge student population? That's wayyyy too much money for a school that isn't even that high ranked, no offense to your school. I mean, America's college system is so good that you can go to just about any accredited undergraduate program and if you make good connections you'll do all right, whether it's a school in the top 10 or on the top 200. At least, that's what I've heard.

[SqueezyTime]

Call it yearly nickel-and-diming, ASU has been raising their tuition rates yearly for almost more than the past decade. The increases are constantly decried by the student pool; but there's little anyone can do about it (and the economy has been blamed each time) it's not a research school for many of the subjects, although the colleges do provide some backing for much that happens.

I suspect that there might be a drop or a leveling off if the federal student loan program began to falter, but I am guessing that's where most of the cash that supports the tuition increases comes from.

I haven't been paying attention much in the past few years, but I have a strong suspicion it's the same as it's always been.

Yes, exactly what the random other guy in Arizona said.

And no offence taken, everybody knows ASU doesn't rank very high. I can't even say that it's a good school: A buddy of mine just graduated there and he said it was alright, but it seems like there are a lot of classes where they just cram several different specific subjects together as a broader subject and call it "Theory of ____". Their Computer Information Systems program is pretty lame too, so even if I did decide to get a bachelor's, which is almost a complete waste (programming is all about experience), I wouldn't go to ASU for it.

Butyeah, this is way off topic

[Phobia]

ASU got some sick *** football uniforms though and my dude Vontaze Burfict tore it up there but that's completely irrelevant.

I find that you should do what makes you happy and ignore what others think. I understand your mom is worried that you play too much games but it is honestly what you have fun doing. Now I'm not saying other things arent important but prioritizing your own happiness is what is the most important. As long as your happiness doesn't involve harming people around you.

[SqueezyTime]

As long as your happiness doesn't involve harming people around you.

Unless they are video game people.

[Jermatoo]

On the flipside of all of that, I feel like I would have been in a lot more trouble if I didn't have gaming. I already was in quite a bit of shit as a youth, I can't imagine where I would have ended up without that one little distraction I had. I wasn't ever good at sports, but I was good at gaming so it kept me home a little more than I was otherwise.

I bet I'd be in prison for sure.

This basically sums it up for me. My freshman year I basically said to hell with school and skipped to the point where I only passed 3 classes that year. Ended up doing a ton of remedial work to get my *** back in gear by my senior year but managed to graduate with a relatively low gpa.