<p>Exactly! With that many resources at your disposal, there’s really no excuse to still be bored enough to want to immerse oneself in virtual reality to an excess.</p>
<p>So I hear! I’m more of an Unreal Tournament buff, myself, though…</p>
<p>Thank you, Godspeed - Viola and TomTheCat, for sharing your experience and opinions. This is not a debate on theories. Only the parents and kids who have been there know what it is about.</p>
<p>Archetype: I don’t know what Form you are going into next year. If it is 3d Form, they don’t allow the game consoles in your room. You can use them occasionally on the weekend in the common room with permission. (Sports games seemed popular this year.) I am not sure about the Upper School rules. Some students do play games like counter-strike on their laptops. However, you won’t have time to sleep much if you do.</p>
<p>You guys might think this is crazy, I don’t know. We have six X-boxes in a dorm of 30 kids. St. Paul’s allows you to have consoles in your room (except Kitt 1) and we play a fair amount. We are not allowed to play during study hours, but other then that it’s fair game. A little pick me up now and then never hurts and if you manage your time wisely playing X-box with your friends can be a lot of fun. The school does block x-box live, however we can link with our dorm mates. It’s really not as big of a deal as Tom is making it out to be. Just because you commit to a top notch boarding school does not mean you are giving 4 years of your life away.</p>
<p>…^^ Lol what?</p>
<p>Okay, so creative and hockeykid have taught us that SPS is more lenient with the big bad terrible corrupting devices. Does SPS have a problem with addicted kids?</p>
<p>Come on, Pan, they’re not “big bad terrible corrupting devices.” I have one, okay? They’re just… distracting when you least want them to be… I will indulge myself in my common room, but not when I have work to do or when it’s sunny and there’s someone with whom to toss a disc outside.</p>
<p>And PV, if you were addicted, it did you well. You were accepted at several competitive schools, right? You must be fairly accomplished despite that propensity to addiction.</p>
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<p>From Exeter’s E Book (rule book): </p>
<p>Watching television, playing video games, viewing DVDs, videos, and streaming television programs not related to course work, are prohibited between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. on school nights. The dormitory faculty member on duty may grant exceptions to this rule on specific occasions.</p>
<p>Television sets are not allowed in dormitory rooms. Dormitory common room television sets may not be used during study hours except by permission of the dormitory faculty on each specific occasion. Computer video reception equipment is subject to rules governing television sets in common rooms.</p>
<p>many andover students have game consoles in their rooms…</p>
<p>The problem I see with Exeter’s rules is that there are so many games that can be played on the computer now that you don’t need a game console.</p>
<p>At my Middlesex revisit I went to a dorm room that had xbox in it. The kid had a 20in computer monitor all hooked up to cable and stuff. He had his xbox plugged in. It worked really well. Before classes started about 20 kids piled into this kid’s room and gamed (and cheated on Spanish homework). They let me play some halo, but I sucked because they forged the place and it was absolutely ridiculous to survive when they knew the locations of every spartan lazer and rocket launcher.</p>
<p>LOL AT MY ABOVE POST. Benevolent thats why you have to memorize all the critical areas sheesh.</p>
<p>I definitely am bringing an xbox 360 to my dorm so I can xbox live it with my buddies back home.
Can i also buy a TV to put in my dorm for my gaming reasons? And for all those concerned parents out there; dont worry I dont play it that excessively only on weekends where we go all nighters 6pm -7 am HALO ON EVERY MAP 2 TIMES . </p>
<p>P.S. ARCHETYPE U PLAY N2K? LETS PLAY PM ME I GIVE U MY GAMER TAG</p>
<p>Man If i knew SPS was a gaming school I would’ve doubled my efforts to GET IN GAHH!</p>
<p>jk lol</p>
<p>It’s not a gaming school. They are giving us the freedom and we have to be responsible. Clearly we are, or it would have been taken away long ago. This is only in guys dorms by the way.</p>
<p>Exeter states you cannot have a television which is different they a secondary monitor. I think that statement in the exeter handbook is to outlaw tv’s not secondary monitors.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity: what do most people play? I play some MMORPGs, DotA and Wii in my freetime, but I’m currently trying to break my gaming habits before I go to Exeter :)</p>
<p>In girls’ dorms, there will be some guitar hero seshes, but for the most part Hockeykid is right. Gaming is a guy thing.</p>
<p>I beg to differ, my good friend loves to play Halo with us guys.</p>