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"a whole I feel that you certainly bring up a number of good points, and as a current senior in high-school I feel I have the proper stature to say that you are certainly right on a whole, particularly about gaming detracting from student's dedication to their education.
While gaming and education have always met a nice balance for me, I know that many of my peers would be doing incomparably better were it not for binge sessions of modern warfare 2, or WoW. A good friend of mine, whom I feel is capable of achieving at least an 80 average, is currently sitting on a 65. The problem? His very long-running absence due to "illness" (that just so happened to start the same day as Modern Warfare 2 was released!).
But are video games really entirely to blame? In all honesty I probably play at least 15 hours of games a week, and I still maintain near a 90% average. I think that video games are merely an outlet for a person's attention. Before it was video games it was television, before that it was films, and so on. It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when people said reading novels could hurt one's education.
I think if you are going to argue that gaming detracts from anything, it should be one's sleep. Even now at 12:30 am local time I am sitting at my computer looking over various gaming sites and blogs, knowing that in six hours I will have to get up for another full day of school. This is an all too common event for myself, and probably happens at least four nights a week. I can only wonder why so few people pick up on this point when compared to gaming's effect on social interactions or work h"
Monday, December 07, 2009
