college Students. Advise me please.

College students who fail, or get average grades(b's,c's maybe some d's) play alot of games.

Genuises who don't need to study or put effort can do both.

Most people can't.

I recommend you commit yourself to school and play when you have the time. Just use moderation.

Hey guys, I'm gonna be going to college this month, and I just bought an xbox 360. I'm really starting to rethink my purchace. I'm starting to think that I won't have any time to play, and it may conflict with my studies. So my question to you is, do you college kids usually have enough time to play games?best-gam3r

You pretty much answered your own question.

Pftt

Yeah I play games all the freakin time

And I still manage a C average at my community college!

:D

i dont think video games are going to be the problem.....

girls, alcohol, partys, and illegal things , stay sober and study thats all and relax playing video games when you have the time.

it depends on your major as well. some will afford you plenty of free time. others will not.

You should be able to play for a couple of hours a week. Just make sure you play AFTER you finish your studies, not before. I used to play before I did my homework and umm.. yeahh.. never really did any homework.DeeJayInphinity

heh...my grandfather is under the impression im going to be studying every waking moment once college starts...hahaha

[QUOTE="DeeJayInphinity"]You should be able to play for a couple of hours a week. Just make sure you play AFTER you finish your studies, not before. I used to play before I did my homework and umm.. yeahh.. never really did any homework.ArmoredAshes

heh...my grandfather is under the impression im going to be studying every waking moment once college starts...hahaha

If you're from Japan that would probably be true, but you're American so you'll probably spend much less(depending on how serious you are). I've had two Japanese roommates and both of them studied about 20 more hours than was necessary to get an A. Of course they spent about 8-12 hours of study time per day after their classes. Just a difference in culture and expectations, but you can get good grades with much less time depending on your intellect.

Pftt

Yeah I play games all the freakin time

And I still manage a C average at my community college!

:D

LetsPlayBrick

The only think you have to remember when you are at College is to treat it as your full time job, that means putting in enough hours to equate to a 9-5 overall (if you look at the recommended external study time you are given it amounts to about the same amount of time per week as a full-time job).

And just like a full-time job, you'll have free time to socialise and play games (more so during the first year). Time management is a skill you really have to get down at college, that means managing the things you do rather than simply neglecting one thing or another (that's not to say you can't prioritise :p).

IMHO I think a handheld is better for college, social experience with them is better since they are cheaper, don't require a TV and/or TV license and many support single-game multiplayer support. Not to mention they are smaller and easier to carry around (which makes arranging multiplayer easier).

If [QUOTE="ArmoredAshes"]

[QUOTE="DeeJayInphinity"]You should be able to play for a couple of hours a week. Just make sure you play AFTER you finish your studies, not before. I used to play before I did my homework and umm.. yeahh.. never really did any homework.RainandSunshine

heh...my grandfather is under the impression im going to be studying every waking moment once college starts...hahaha

If you're from Japan that would probably be true, but you're American so you'll probably spend much less(depending on how serious you are). I've had two Japanese roommates and both of them studied about 20 more hours than was necessary to get an A. Of course they spent about 8-12 hours of study time per day after their classes. Just a difference in culture and expectations, but you can get good grades with much less time depending on your intellect.

That is probably only the case because they are paying hefty amounts for a foreign education. Japanese college students don't work. They don't even turn up to lectures half the time and when they do they generally talk/sleep/on the phone or some other activity that doesn't involve actually paying attention, you just turn up occasionally (in many cases they only turn up for the start of term) and then buy notes of a professional note-taker (I'm not kidding). Their high-school system is hell so the idea of expecting students to work at Uni level is a ludicrous expectation. Though again, there are exceptions when it comes to trying to gain presitgous foreign qualifications.

If you think that something as easy to step away from as a video game console will make you fail in school, you clearly aren't ready for college.

I played plenty of games in college, I partied my fair share, I did a few extracurricular activities. I wasn't you know, captain of the football team or anything, but if you put in an honest effort with your studies you will have time to mess around a lot, particularly if you study in a worthless field like sociology or art history where you have less total time in class than a science major spends in one lab session a week.

[QUOTE="LetsPlayBrick"]

Pftt

Yeah I play games all the freakin time

And I still manage a C average at my community college!

:D

CommanderShiro

Yeah I know, I rule at life you don't have to tell me.

[QUOTE="CommanderShiro"][QUOTE="LetsPlayBrick"]

Pftt

Yeah I play games all the freakin time

And I still manage a C average at my community college!

:D

LetsPlayBrick

Yeah I know, I rule at life you don't have to tell me.

It's ludicrous to think that someone wouldn't have ANY time to play videogames at college. It's college, remember. Even if all you do is study day and night, you still should be taking breaks for 15 minutes for every hour and half or so. And that's extreme........so extreme that it takes a realllly boring person to do it.

You don't want to be boring, do you?

you will have a surprisingly_large amountof free time, even with a heavy class load, as long as you have the will power to get your work done there is no reason not of have video games down at schoolg-unit248

That is the key.

I play tons of games and get As and Bs in my major (accounting). A lot of people can piss away lots of study time and get As and Bs (me w00t) and then you have a lot of people who need to study for hours to get good grades.

My trick is to decide on which day(s) to do school work and decide on a time (usually 2pm) and then I do nothing but my studying/homework/projects from 2pm until I am done. If I don't hold myself to that alloted time frame I'll just screw around and play games or whatnot.

EDIT: What hurt me during my first 2 years of college was working 30+ hours a week. I was getting Cs and Ds. I quit after 2 years and my grades went up. So if you have to work while going to college work 20 hours a week or so... or do what I did and learn your antiques and do eBay/antique shows.

I just bought one a few weeks ago :o

I'm sure I'll have time.....I'm a fast worker and I do my work as soon as it's assigned instead of taking breaks or doing some now and some later....I just like doing school work I guess :P

As long as you put your school work first....you shouldn't worry about it conflicting with your studies.....have some self control!!! :P

Time management. Keep the 360, get games for special occasions--birthdays, holidays.

Play games on breaks from studying, for a couple hours on the weekends if you have nothing else to do, no other people to hang out with.

You'll be glad you did. Otherwise, you'll just burn yourself out. Trust me. I'm in my 3rd year of University.