i for one am an avid MMO player and played wow non stop in high school and ill admit, i was only average because of it, 3.0 gpa, b or c in everything except art lol, never did any homework or anything, nor joined any clubs because all i wanted to do was come home and play warcraft, also thought about warcraft all day and talked to people who played it about it.....thankfully i quit 8 months ago and now ill be going to college and hopefully will go past average :P
I was pretty much the same way in high school. Grades really were not that important to me, because I saw high school as completely pointless and it was pretty easy for the most part. Although now that I'm in college I take my courses much more seriously, because it is actually worthwhile this time around....which reminds me I should be working on my animation final atm lol.
Wow apparently everyone here is a star athlete, has a 4.8 GPA, and plays MMO's 2 hours everyday. Its ridiculous seeing this many people lie. I am with you OP. I rarely play video games on the week days. School from 8-4 then practice from 5-7. Eat dinner and at 8 start my homework. Perhaps if I didn't have swim practice for 2 hours everyday I could play MMO's but still with 6 of homework, I think not. Grades are more important than any video game I have found. Plus I am not remotely wealthy and will need to get a scholarship or borrow a hell of a lot of money to go to college.
I agree with you, some of the responses here are quite ridiculous. I'm still in high school, and with AP classes and SATs, I can most definitely play 1-3 hours a day. However, I most certainly won't be getting A+ grades. I have friends in high school who take college classes, and have been doing so from 10th grade. They have their hands full to the point of staying up to 1 and 2 in the morning doing work, and they're VERY intelligent. That's without having any time for games. To be honest though, I'm not surprised, seeing as it is THIS forum.
I am in college and still play. Not playing anything atm though, because all the current mmo's suck.
Dunno why people are saying 4.2 is impossible and stuff. AP/IB classes are made so if you get a C, it counts as a B in the point system, and so on. So if you have all A's and you are in an AP class, your GPA goes above 4.0.
The guy probably was lying though... Grades don't make somebody smart anyways. It is usually the morons who are so interested in the class, and put forth a huge effort.
I started playing MMO's back when i was in 5th grade, and still do(going into my senior year). I stand by the fact that i was the first person in my grade to play MMO's.
High school isn't hard for me because i don't strive for straight A's. I don't care about them, and i don't feel that its worth all the time i would need to put into it.
I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)
*cough* *wheeze* Back in my day, we did not have no fancy MMOs...we used Dial up...with a modem...and 4800 baud was considered fast....whippersnappers!
I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)
Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running. Possibly youre just fat/slow?
I'll admit - I got into MMOs my freshman year. Before that, I was an A+ student - no problems whatsoever. When games like SWG, WoW, and AC2 came into my life, that wonderful A+ attitude turned into mediocrity. I'll be truthful, I graduated with a 3.85 (played some serious catch-up senior year), that's definitely not some of the 4.8s or whatever that some people on this thread lay claim to. I still got into the college I wanted to go to, however, and that's the only thing that matters. Hopefully this thread will come to show how inefficient our public school system is in the US - it just flat out sucks. I might not be the best source of opinion, though; what with Alabama being 48th in education, or something like that. Gaming definitely lowered my grades in the long run, I just got lucky. Make sure your priorities are straightened out - that ACT/SAT you have to take tomorrow is probably more important than a Kara raid your guild just -has- to complete.
I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)
Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running. Possibly youre just fat/slow?
Ya pretty much, tried running, sucked at it and didn't enjoy it. But then again, its always more fun if your good at something. But all the distance kids wish they threw a discus half the distance i did.
I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)
Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running. Possibly youre just fat/slow?
Ya pretty much, tried running, sucked at it and didn't enjoy it. But then again, its always more fun if your good at something. But all the distance kids wish they threw a discus half the distance i did.
Damn, that reminds me of my school's CC team. If you wanted to see skinny white boys built like lamp posts, that's where you would want to go. I know from experience.
I'll admit - I got into MMOs my freshman year. Before that, I was an A+ student - no problems whatsoever. When games like SWG, WoW, and AC2 came into my life, that wonderful A+ attitude turned into mediocrity. I'll be truthful, I graduated with a 3.85 (played some serious catch-up senior year), that's definitely not some of the 4.8s or whatever that some people on this thread lay claim to. I still got into the college I wanted to go to, however, and that's the only thing that matters. Hopefully this thread will come to show how inefficient our public school system is in the US - it just flat out sucks. I might not be the best source of opinion, though; what with Alabama being 48th in education, or something like that. Gaming definitely lowered my grades in the long run, I just got lucky. Make sure your priorities are straightened out - that ACT/SAT you have to take tomorrow is probably more important than a Kara raid your guild just -has- to complete.
That sounds like what I'll be doing. I've been pulling along a C average until 11th grade. My GPA right now is like 3.2/3.3. I'll be playing catch-up my senior year as well. I took a SAT class and got 1800 and now I'm taking private SAT lessons, hoping for at least 2000 my second time around. It'll be hard, but if I get As my senior year, my GPA should jump up enough to make a good pair with my SAT scores. Gaming will be on the backburner.
I just graduated in June with both my AA and my HS Diploma. It was hard, but totally worth it and I was still able to get some serious gaming done (and get into a very nice college)
Can't say I had much of a social life though.. Apart from my ingame friends and my boyfriend (who also games).
Highschool is a joke... you can skate by and still go to a good college...I would say do your best but Highschool does not teach you anything useful... nothing Okay maybe not nothing but very little besides the World is unfair and you have to get used to being screwed over.
You must not know how the schools work in Texas.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day. And then Nebraska would get nerfed.-pinkwood lotro fourms
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Actually, I just realized that I hadn't taken nationality into account. Some schools in other nations (like Great Britain) have extremely wide grade ranges, almost makes American schools look elite.
Can I request to have this thread completely and utterly destroyed before it turns into a typical collegeconfidential.com look-at-my-scores-and-my-awesome-grades-that-absolutely-no-one-cares-about-because-there-is-no-substantial-proof posting, there's nothing worse than the old "look at my huge e-peen," except, of course, for "look at my huge... errr... e-brain." Send in the trolls!
I played UO hours on end when I was in high school. You're right, you can't play an MMORPG while having buttloads of fun at the same time when in school. My grades sucked in 9th grade because Ultima Online, I felt, was more important. So I kept playing it that summer, and I realized what a dork I was -- waking up, playing, sleeping -- before the next year hit...and started getting bored and enjoying school. I still played it, but a LOT more casually than hardcore.
If you play MMORPGs on a hardcore scale while in high school, you will find out that you just spent the biggest waste of your life listening to some crappy music nobody likes except you and your friends, playing MMOs, and believing everyone is against you.
-- Nobody is against you!!
When I realized how fun school was, and made my teachers feel like I was ceral about work, they all helped me and I went to a beautiful college, and became incredibly pleased with my outcome
I moved to a beautiful place with my fiance, and I now make a $105k salary at age 26 with a fun job and a wonderful life.
...and I STILL play MMOs in every slot of free time and loving them (which is enough) !
So I get out at 2:30 go and do whatever until like 4:30 maybe 5:00 then go home. I then take a nap until around 6:30 when I wake up I turn on the television and watch basketball and do my homework until about 8:30 or 9:00 then maybe play a mmorpg from 9:00 to 11:00 if I am in the mood.
So its not really a problem to me but I don't get straight A's or anything B's and C's do me.
AP grades are weighted on a 1-5 scale, 5 being equivalent to an A. So it brings your GPA waaaaaaaaaay up.
Very nice?
I wish.
I thought the same until every school I applied to recalculated my GPA without the added AP weight, essentially rendering half of my reasoning for taking them null and void. Money-sink, anyone?
AP grades are weighted on a 1-5 scale, 5 being equivalent to an A. So it brings your GPA waaaaaaaaaay up.
Very nice?
I wish.
I thought the same until every school I applied to recalculated my GPA without the added AP weight, essentially rendering half of my reasoning for taking them null and void. Money-sink, anyone?
I didn't play games when I was is school, back in the day, I was drinking and doing drugs all day. Stopped all that at 19, did well in college, Now I'm a computer programmer.
im in a college prep private high school and i find time to play MMOs quite a bit. I can't play as much as i used to, but i still get around to 'em a lot
Playing:WoW,Guild Wars Used to play: Vanguard, Anarchy Online (got to lvl 6 and quit ) Waiting for: Warhammer, Aion
Highschool is a joke... you can skate by and still go to a good college...I would say do your best but Highschool does not teach you anything useful... nothing Okay maybe not nothing but very little besides the World is unfair and you have to get used to being screwed over.
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I was pretty much the same way in high school. Grades really were not that important to me, because I saw high school as completely pointless and it was pretty easy for the most part. Although now that I'm in college I take my courses much more seriously, because it is actually worthwhile this time around....which reminds me I should be working on my animation final atm lol.
I agree with you, some of the responses here are quite ridiculous. I'm still in high school, and with AP classes and SATs, I can most definitely play 1-3 hours a day. However, I most certainly won't be getting A+ grades. I have friends in high school who take college classes, and have been doing so from 10th grade. They have their hands full to the point of staying up to 1 and 2 in the morning doing work, and they're VERY intelligent. That's without having any time for games. To be honest though, I'm not surprised, seeing as it is THIS forum.
I am in college and still play. Not playing anything atm though, because all the current mmo's suck.
Dunno why people are saying 4.2 is impossible and stuff. AP/IB classes are made so if you get a C, it counts as a B in the point system, and so on. So if you have all A's and you are in an AP class, your GPA goes above 4.0.
The guy probably was lying though... Grades don't make somebody smart anyways. It is usually the morons who are so interested in the class, and put forth a huge effort.
I started playing MMO's back when i was in 5th grade, and still do(going into my senior year). I stand by the fact that i was the first person in my grade to play MMO's.
High school isn't hard for me because i don't strive for straight A's. I don't care about them, and i don't feel that its worth all the time i would need to put into it.
I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)
*cough* *wheeze* Back in my day, we did not have no fancy MMOs...we used Dial up...with a modem...and 4800 baud was considered fast....whippersnappers!
Pong Rules!
*Cough* *Flat-line*
Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running. Possibly youre just fat/slow?
I'll admit - I got into MMOs my freshman year. Before that, I was an A+ student - no problems whatsoever. When games like SWG, WoW, and AC2 came into my life, that wonderful A+ attitude turned into mediocrity. I'll be truthful, I graduated with a 3.85 (played some serious catch-up senior year), that's definitely not some of the 4.8s or whatever that some people on this thread lay claim to. I still got into the college I wanted to go to, however, and that's the only thing that matters. Hopefully this thread will come to show how inefficient our public school system is in the US - it just flat out sucks. I might not be the best source of opinion, though; what with Alabama being 48th in education, or something like that. Gaming definitely lowered my grades in the long run, I just got lucky. Make sure your priorities are straightened out - that ACT/SAT you have to take tomorrow is probably more important than a Kara raid your guild just -has- to complete.
Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running. Possibly youre just fat/slow?
Ya pretty much, tried running, sucked at it and didn't enjoy it. But then again, its always more fun if your good at something. But all the distance kids wish they threw a discus half the distance i did.
Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running. Possibly youre just fat/slow?
Ya pretty much, tried running, sucked at it and didn't enjoy it. But then again, its always more fun if your good at something. But all the distance kids wish they threw a discus half the distance i did.
Damn, that reminds me of my school's CC team. If you wanted to see skinny white boys built like lamp posts, that's where you would want to go. I know from experience.
That sounds like what I'll be doing. I've been pulling along a C average until 11th grade. My GPA right now is like 3.2/3.3. I'll be playing catch-up my senior year as well. I took a SAT class and got 1800 and now I'm taking private SAT lessons, hoping for at least 2000 my second time around. It'll be hard, but if I get As my senior year, my GPA should jump up enough to make a good pair with my SAT scores. Gaming will be on the backburner.
I just graduated in June with both my AA and my HS Diploma. It was hard, but totally worth it and I was still able to get some serious gaming done
(and get into a very nice college)
Can't say I had much of a social life though.. Apart from my ingame friends and my boyfriend (who also games).
4.32 GPA, 32 ACT, 2070 SAT.
You must not know how the schools work in Texas.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day.
And then Nebraska would get nerfed.-pinkwood lotro fourms
AMD 4800 2.4ghz-3GB RAM 533mhz-EVGA 9500GT 512mb-320gb HD
Actually, I just realized that I hadn't taken nationality into account. Some schools in other nations (like Great Britain) have extremely wide grade ranges, almost makes American schools look elite.
Can I request to have this thread completely and utterly destroyed before it turns into a typical collegeconfidential.com look-at-my-scores-and-my-awesome-grades-that-absolutely-no-one-cares-about-because-there-is-no-substantial-proof posting, there's nothing worse than the old "look at my huge e-peen," except, of course, for "look at my huge... errr... e-brain." Send in the trolls!
I played UO hours on end when I was in high school. You're right, you can't play an MMORPG while having buttloads of fun at the same time when in school. My grades sucked in 9th grade because Ultima Online, I felt, was more important. So I kept playing it that summer, and I realized what a dork I was -- waking up, playing, sleeping -- before the next year hit...and started getting bored and enjoying school. I still played it, but a LOT more casually than hardcore.
If you play MMORPGs on a hardcore scale while in high school, you will find out that you just spent the biggest waste of your life listening to some crappy music nobody likes except you and your friends, playing MMOs, and believing everyone is against you.
-- Nobody is against you!!
When I realized how fun school was, and made my teachers feel like I was ceral about work, they all helped me and I went to a beautiful college, and became incredibly pleased with my outcome
I moved to a beautiful place with my fiance, and I now make a $105k salary at age 26 with a fun job and a wonderful life.
...and I STILL play MMOs in every slot of free time and loving them (which is enough) !
Well I will show you my schedule
school gets out at 2:30
So I get out at 2:30 go and do whatever until like 4:30 maybe 5:00 then go home. I then take a nap until around 6:30 when I wake up I turn on the television and watch basketball and do my homework until about 8:30 or 9:00 then maybe play a mmorpg from 9:00 to 11:00 if I am in the mood.
So its not really a problem to me but I don't get straight A's or anything B's and C's do me.
It's called AP
:P
AP grades are weighted on a 1-5 scale, 5 being equivalent to an A. So it brings your GPA waaaaaaaaaay up.
Very nice?
It's called AP
:P
AP grades are weighted on a 1-5 scale, 5 being equivalent to an A. So it brings your GPA waaaaaaaaaay up.
Very nice?
I wish.
I thought the same until every school I applied to recalculated my GPA without the added AP weight, essentially rendering half of my reasoning for taking them null and void. Money-sink, anyone?
It's called AP
:P
AP grades are weighted on a 1-5 scale, 5 being equivalent to an A. So it brings your GPA waaaaaaaaaay up.
Very nice?
I wish.
I thought the same until every school I applied to recalculated my GPA without the added AP weight, essentially rendering half of my reasoning for taking them null and void. Money-sink, anyone?
That blows. Omg, I'm sorry. That just sucks.
I didn't play games when I was is school, back in the day, I was drinking and doing drugs all day. Stopped all that at 19, did well in college, Now I'm a computer programmer.
im in a college prep private high school and i find time to play MMOs quite a bit. I can't play as much as i used to, but i still get around to 'em a lot
Playing:WoW,Guild Wars
)
Used to play: Vanguard, Anarchy Online (got to lvl 6 and quit
Waiting for: Warhammer, Aion
Hehe, too funny.
Once upon a time....