<p>Originally posted on the "Gaming" thread (now deleted) by tivesrx:
"This kind of ****es me off too. I work my ass off in school and put a lot of time into meaningful extracurriculars like music, research, and community service. If someone gets into Cornell over me and spends their free time wasting away on video games, while I would be playing in the music department and taking advantage of what the college has to offer there is something wrong with Cornell trying to find people who add something to the campus. How could sitting in your dorm playing computer games by yourself on the weekend add to the university environment."</p>
<p>I have to respond to this naive post.</p>
<p>Dude, you need to get a life. Seriously. It's not like we spend all our time gaming. I spend an hour max. on gaming everyday. Doesnt mean I dont study. Doesnt mean I dont play music. Doesnt mean I dont engage in other extracurriculars. In case you didnt realize, gaming is also an extracurricular.
From a gamer's point of view, I could say that you "waste" away your time playing music. In that case, as a musician, I too "waste" my time with music.</p>
<p>And if you think that a person who games doesnt deserve to go to Cornell, then based on your reasoning, I dont think you deserve to either.</p>
<p>""This kind of ****es me off too. I work my ass off in school and put a lot of time into meaningful extracurriculars like music, research, and community service. If someone gets into Cornell over me and spends their free time wasting away on video games, while I would be playing in the music department and taking advantage of what the college has to offer there is something wrong with Cornell trying to find people who add something to the campus. How could sitting in your dorm playing computer games by yourself on the weekend add to the university environment."</p>
<p>Why does it **** you off? Its his life, you're not really going to be affected by his playing games. And you said you put a lot of time in meaningful ECs, so you should be feeling pity for someone who spends his/her time simply gaming. Instead, you sound aggravated, implying that you didn't actually enjoy your ECs but only did them to bump up your stats.</p>
<p>Music is a waste of time. I bet your parents are mighty proud they spend $1000 on lessons so now you are a more dexterous poker of keys. Video games, on the other hand, build prolem-solving, social, and hand-eye coordination skills. They provide interactive entertainment that can be bundled with excercise (laptop+stationary bike or DDR, for example) such that they add no extra time.</p>
<p>I dont mean to say that anyone who plays video games doesnt belong at Cornell. If you balance your life with other things and play video games on the side then thats fine. What I dont like is people who go through their entire 4 years of college without participated in anything because they spent so much time playing video games. Its not my bussiness how you spend your free time, but college is more than just going to class and studying.</p>
<p>Music is sweet. Most people who play video games excessively seem to lack these social skills you refer to, Slorg, while my friends who listen to music seem to be more social than their gamer counterparts. If you want exercise get on a treadmill, it's not very hard.</p>
<p>tiversrx you can't just assume that when we talk about gaming, we plan to game 24/7, and not come out of our rooms. Many people are casual gamers, and we just wanted to know what the gaming scene at Cornell was like.</p>
<p>Pff... everyone knows that people go to Cornell for the video game. In fact, they should start a video game major, where you just sit around and play games all day! Yeah! A BS in Super Smash Brothers from Cornell College of Video and Computer Games.</p>
<p>I got a Zork major from CCVCG back in '83. Now it's outdated; everyone's majoring in SSB these days. I hear they're even doing away with that and replacing it with the SSBM major. That field just moves too quickly. Your degree's worthless within a decade.</p>
<p>Games are fun. I wouldn't call myself a gamer, but I like to sit down with all my friends in a room sometimes and play a game like halo or need for speed or winning 11 together. Video games aren't that different from checkers or monopoly or whatever. They're entertaining, interactive time-consumers, and a good way to spend chill time, just like watching a football game on TV with the guys or w/e. However, at the same time I love to get out and ski, mountain bike, play baseball, play jazz, and I think my social skills are fairly decent considering I just got a bid (a formal offer to join for you greek system newbs) from what is, in my opinion, one of the most thriving fraternities on campus. :D</p>
<p>my friends and I used to hook up multiple TVs around a house to play halo, its fun- but there definitely are a lot of people who arent recreational gamers, and spend the majority of their free time doing it</p>
<p>my friend, whos at Rochester institute of technology, is very social and all (kind of ****ed that he picked that school), yet he says everyone there does nothing but play counterstrike, halo, etc - they refer to everyone as NEWBS! and HACKERS!</p>