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Whos in highschool and still plays mmorpgs?
Thorn3
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1.So who does?
2.If you do how do you find the time to play? Theres so much homeowork and you constantly have to be studying in case of pop quizes and tests and during exams you have to study for like 2 weeks just to pass and get your credit!
3. If you do play, how long do you play every day?
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I graduated in 2008... High school was a breeze. I left school early almost everyday, missed 1-2 days a week, and hardly ever studied.
Pats are gonna go 19-0 2008-2009 season
I wonder? Whoever does find the time must be a certified genius.
Seriously mate, highschool isn't hard.
Think about this, I managed t play UO from the army.
I'm in the Air Force and enrolled in college and still play
not to mention passing everyone around my lvl in EQ2 when i played recently.
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.
Sooner or Later
dude i am high school and taking collage classes at the same time and i find time to play mmos
I played MMOs through all of the four years I spent in high school. I just graduated a few months ago, and I'm currently going to Northwestern - so it is definitely possible to be an active gamer and still get into a good school. I'd normally get home at around 17:30, do my homework until 20:00, and then play until bed at 23:00. High school was indeed a joke - you just need to know how to juggle your time.
I'm sure you do. You sure you're not a test subject at your local college?
Pats are gonna go 19-0 2008-2009 season
graduated from highschool in the 2003, played UO and diablo2 all through it
just look at what is worth studying for, and do that,
pop quizes are usually like worth 0.25% of your whole year. and exams i studied the night before,
the trick is to prioritize
I graduated in 2005. I played AO/DAoC the first part of high school, then SWG until the NGE hit, and then left playing EQ2
Now I'm in college full time and playing Vanguard while I sleep.
-Selek
played WoW, EQ2, Diablo 2, all the way through high school... graduated 2007, still playing them while I'm in college =D.
lawl Im a junior in high school, play football, wrestle, have a 4.2 gpa and I play mmos. Honestly studying is a joke, I have studied twice in my 3 years, and both times were for finals. Besides, isn't 7 and 1/2 hours of school per day enough as it is.
"Time is not money, it is much more;
For I would give my very last dollar just to have one more moment on this Earth;
But I can't, for time does not accept payoffs, only lives"
I'm going to be a senior this coming year. I played WoW freshman-junior year and just recently quit. I play varsity sports for a state championship team, have an A/A+ average with mostly AP/Honors courses, and will most likely get into a top notch college. Honestly, high school doesn't really take up that much time. I do my homework during class and whatever is left right before I go to sleep. The majority of my day is spent at school, then practice, then gaming.
Maybe I'll put my brains into developing the next monumental MMO experience, who knows?
I'm not in highschool, but full time college, and I have about 6 hours a day to use for entertainment (if I chose to do that).
Just be smart with your time.
Blessings,
MMO migrant.
I'm going to have to call BS on this one, because that is like saying I have a A++ in school...
Anyhow high school was easy to do the tests and junk, but I was extremely bored with it. That is why I left early, and now I'm a few months away from graduating with a Bachelor's degree.
it's called extra credit
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Meh I've never believed in BS school systems that give 110 percent or something along those lines. 4.0 is already perfect grades, so it seems pretty pointless to say you have better then perfect grades.
MMOs didn't exist when I was in high school.
But I played lots of pnp RPGs and board games. I don't remember much about high school other than it was a joke, my lovely girlfriend (now my lovely wife), and graduating. It was a very forgettable experience.
Went on to get my MSME and now play mmos in the evening because pnp RPGs take too much time (more than mmos).
Meh I've never believed in BS school systems that give 110 percent or something along those lines. 4.0 is already perfect grades, so it seems pretty pointless to say you have better then perfect grades.
i'll second that.
i didn't graduate high school anyways.
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I find that hard to believe.
But yes, if you think making time for hobbies in high school is difficult then you're in for a world of hurt when you graduate.
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Meh I've never believed in BS school systems that give 110 percent or something along those lines. 4.0 is already perfect grades, so it seems pretty pointless to say you have better then perfect grades.
i'll second that.
i didn't graduate high school anyways.
alot of high schools dont use the 4.0 scale anymore... mine used a 12.0 scale and i know that one of the cities neighboring mine used an 8.0 scale... so it may have been possible he got a 4.2 on one of those other scales, and it usually wont show up past the limit of the scale, even with extra credit, most grading programs wont even allow extra points on assignments and if teachers choose to give extra credit they have to create an assignment on the system specifically for those kids that did the extra credit and give teh points to them that way.
*edit* and i graduated in 2008 and found enough time to play at least 2-4 hours on most nights easily, and i had a job and i participated Muay Thai and Brazillian Jiu-jitsu almost all of those nights. needless to say that i did have 2 study halls/Teachers aides (teachers aide is basically a glorified study hall that looks good on collage resumes in my high school) my junior and senior year and i had 1 study hall my freshman and sophomore year, so unless you want to graduate early just take study halls and actually study in them and you will have way more time at home to do what you want.
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1. I still do, I'm not graduating till 2009
2. I always have time to play. With homework it's thanks to the notes I take during class that it passes by really quickly. With tests and exams, make a studying technique that works well. For example: if I was studying vocabulary I would put the words into a catchy phrase or a made up melody and it works perfectly. Or if I was studying math and I needed to remember formulas, I would make up some stories that would go along with the formulas.
3. I usually play about 5-7 hours on weekdays, and on weekends I play about the same hours since I hang out with my friends too.
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.
Highschool teaches two things.
1. Political Correctness
2. Just how inefficient the government is.
Meh I've never believed in BS school systems that give 110 percent or something along those lines. 4.0 is already perfect grades, so it seems pretty pointless to say you have better then perfect grades.
i'll second that.
i didn't graduate high school anyways.
alot of high schools dont use the 4.0 scale anymore... mine used a 12.0 scale and i know that one of the cities neighboring mine used an 8.0 scale... so it may have been possible he got a 4.2 on one of those other scales, and it usually wont show up past the limit of the scale, even with extra credit, most grading programs wont even allow extra points on assignments and if teachers choose to give extra credit they have to create an assignment on the system specifically for those kids that did the extra credit and give teh points to them that way.
*edit* and i graduated in 2008 and found enough time to play at least 2-4 hours on most nights easily, and i had a job and i participated Muay Thai and Brazillian Jiu-jitsu almost all of those nights. needless to say that i did have 2 study halls/Teachers aides (teachers aide is basically a glorified study hall that looks good on collage resumes in my high school) my junior and senior year and i had 1 study hall my freshman and sophomore year, so unless you want to graduate early just take study halls and actually study in them and you will have way more time at home to do what you want.
Well then that would make more sense, but I doubt he would be proud of a 4.2 if this were the case because that sounds rather low on a 12.0 scale.
On a side note....that avatar of yours made me think you are another person on these forums
i for one am an avid MMO player and played wow, CoX, and guild wars 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, and i played from 3 when i got home to 2am, and slept half of my time at school : /.
also thought about warcraft all day and talked to people who played it about it.....thankfully i quit 8 months ago, all video games, and now ill be going to college and hopefully will go past average :P
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