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.

Originally posted by jackeccs

it's called extra credit

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?

Originally posted by star.buck

Originally posted by jackeccs

it's called extra credit

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?

Originally posted by DrChicken

Originally posted by star.buck

Originally posted by jackeccs

it's called extra credit

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

Originally posted by TdogSkal

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.

 

Hehe, too funny.