<p>Do any high school MIT-interested student ever play video games? as a freshman , sophomore, junior, or senior? </p>
<p>just curious</p>
<p>not too much, but yeah. I played GTA(all except 1st one), some strategies, RPGs,... I get an urge to play so I spend a few weeks playing video games and then I'm back to my usual self :D I'm currently playing EVE, but it's only a trial acc and I don't intend to pay for it so I won't be playing after my acc expires :)</p>
<p>haha...im only a freshman and i raarely play fable and halo. I too get the urge to play, but im not obsessed</p>
<p>Not much, I only play games once in a while that I enjoy a lot, such as Halo, Call of Duty 2 and 3, Super Smash melee, and star wars rouge squadron. I never play multiplayer unless the other people are sitting next to me. I guess I'm a big single player fan... (because the other kids play more and are better at RTS games so I stay away from those). </p>
<p>I have however spend MASSIVE amounts of time learning 3D game development (Direct3D, OpenGL, etc) in middle and early high school, and that was immensly fun. It's a lot cooler to see the plane fly when you programmed it to! Recently I learned about how to make a crappy but neato ray tracer from Paul Graham's book ANSI Common Lisp.</p>
<p>I will admit that I have memorized every line for certain levels of Call of Duty 2 though... but I didn't play much at all during the school year.</p>
<p>Yea totally...Oblivion, Starcraft, Counter Strike, Half Life 2. I've been to two LAN parties this summer, w00t. I probably play 2 or 3 hours a week.</p>