EPTthe WTF college help me :((( thread - Page 2
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Antoine
United States7481 Posts
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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Chill
Calgary25977 Posts
I think you should honestly try having an open mind and embrace living with someone who will show you another side of life.  | ||
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Shifft
Canada1085 Posts
Arts program: 15hrs/week classes, maybe 5hrs/week other work. Science program: ~20hrs/week classes, about 8-10hrs/week other work. And that's if you do every bit of reading or problem sets etc and attend every class, which just about no one actually does. You'll have time to play SC2, don't worry about it. Also why are you sure you could be a pro in a year if you're in platinum right now? I play casually maybe an hour or two every couple days and I'm in masters, I'm also pretty much certain that there's no way I would be good enough to be a pro in any reasonable timeframe. To be a pro a year from now you'll have to be better than most Koreans, which means not only do you have to close the already huge skill gap between you, but you'll have to do so at such a pace that you improve faster than these already incredibly talented players who are practicing 10hrs+ per day. I'd try to be a bit more realistic if I were you. | ||
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Riku
United States1064 Posts
As for your roommate, set down some rules at the start of the year in writing. Make one copy for safe keeping and post one copy in the room. If he starts breaking them go to the Dean of Students with the extra copy and a write-up of how he broke the rules you two set. You'll get a room transfer no problem (this happened for me, but I was the party person constantly being lockrd out and passive-aggressively attacked by my more conservative roommate). However, I think you'll find college is not like high school and that your social life will flourish and you'll make tons of friends, try your first drink, and get your roomie to watch sc2 games with you. Just give him, college and yourself a chance | ||
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spiz
United States32 Posts
If you decide to game instead of go to school, you'll end up regretting it 5-10 years down the road and we'll be in tough spot to change it. You also have college all wrong... It's like you're only idea of it has come from an american pie movie. You should really go see what it's like for a year or two. College is 100% what you make of it. | ||
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cody1024d
107 Posts
In the end, the experiences you have in college will be the best of your life. However, it will be a negative experience if you go in extremely pessimistic (as you seem to be). Perhaps use college as a way to break out of your shell, and put yourself in new, and even awkward situations, nothing terrible will come of it, and who knows, you may even have some fun. Take it from me, I'm a senior in college and went into it scared. I was sheltered, and pretty much a huge video game nerd. I had the same pipe dreams of being "pro". It wasn't until college that I realized you could have fun outside of a game, and that the real world is in fact pretty fucking awesome. So, as Riku suggested, talk to people, have a drink, and most of all, just enjoy yourself. | ||
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Ponyo
United States1231 Posts
From my personal life: I have a small delusion that I can go pro at sc2. Like yea that possibility is always there, what won't always be there is the support from my family/parents, so I'm hitting the books and making sure I learn the material and receive sufficient grades, and the rest of my time goes to sc2. Life is about balance no? | ||
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Soleron
United Kingdom1324 Posts
Your college workload will be much less than mine so you will have correspondingly more time. | ||
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Battleaxe
United States843 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [story] + An old roomate and I live fairly close to one another, I asked him if he wanted to go to concert a few weeks ago, his response, "I donno man I'm busy as hell between work and all my other shit". I told him the concert wasn't until Sept, well into the semester; his response, "Oh then good chance I'm in, I should have plenty of free time". If I had to guess, it would appear you may not have held a full-time job yet, but that is much worse then any "lack of time" you'll have in college. (This of course speaks only to undergrad, grad school is a completely different animal) My freshman year had me paired up with someone who was mostly the complete opposite, myself being more akin to yourself and he being more similar to your soon-to-be roomate. As long as he respects the choices you make and you respect the choices he makes, you shouldn't have much of a problem. Maybe try compromising with them by asking them to let you pursue gaming for a year if you think that's all you would need in order to get results that would allow your parents to be ok with you not attending college, and if you aren't successful then accept their wishes and go. In the grand scheme of things, going to college a year later is not going to ruin your life, and it may actually help you in the long run. With all that said, if you really don't want to go to college, you may want to sit down and try to have a discussion with your parents as to why. Honestly, saying you don't want to go to school to attempt to become a progamer sounds like a terrible argument, but I'm not going to judge you on your aspirations, if you think you can do it more power to you. If this is the case, you need to approach the discussion not from the angle of gaming. Most parents won't be receptive to this kind of reasoning. I'll leave you to decide the way you want to approach it, but college is certainly not for everyone, and although the US perpetrates the belief that you must go to college to be successful or survive in the real world, this isn't the case. + Show Spoiler [Side note] + If your parents are going to be paying for your education, I would take it. If for nothing else, just for the experience and learning you will do as a college student in general can be invaluable. On the other hand, if you'll be taking out loans and paying them back yourself, then as an adult (assuming your over 18) it's your decision as to whether or not you should be undertaking debt for something you're really not interested in doing in the first place. Be aware though, taking the angle of my loans, my decision can also result in parents feeling like it's then their decision to kick you out of their house. I've seen this happen to more then a few people who don't follow their parents wishes once they're of age | ||
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susySquark
United States1692 Posts
Go to school man, take some classes, find what you like. There are ways to contribute to esports that dont involve playing - take journalism classes, broadcasting, business, whatever, and see what you like best. | ||
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MASSivezTV
United States289 Posts
On July 08 2011 04:42 Antoine wrote: are you the same massivez from wow? who did 3s w/ brogo & snutz I am not lol | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
Just get over that hump, stay open-minded to new ideas/career paths, meet new friends, and play games too - and you'll have a good time in college. | ||
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RedJustice
United States1004 Posts
I think you have a very skewed view of what college is, and of yourself. Some time experiencing the real world would be excellent for you. Your parents are doing you a favor-- go 'suffer' through college and become a better person. You will have plenty of time for gaming. You will hopefully develop some useful life skills. You will hopefully develop some useful job skills. You will learn to get along with other people, and/or negotiate getting away from other people. You will hopefully develop a more accurate sense of self. (edit) P.S. If you actually have the skill and dedication to become a progamer, going to college is certainly not going to prevent that. If you don't going to college will hopefully remove these illusions from you. | ||
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MASSivezTV
United States289 Posts
On July 08 2011 04:42 Chill wrote: I think you need a little bit of a reality check. You are extremely outgoing? You can become a progamer? You just said most of your time is spent with your family and you are Platinum. I think you should honestly try having an open mind and embrace living with someone who will show you another side of life. Im outgoing with the people I am comfortable around, like in high school i had no problem at all because i was with those people for around 13 years of my life. As far as me being able to become a pro gamer, yes. If you know me you would know that I have achieved greatly in the things I do in life when I put a lot of time into it. I do believe that I could apply the same mentality and skill into starcraft. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
But yeah. To be terse, just try to experience as many things as you can in college. | ||
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MiraKul
Malaysia498 Posts
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FreshNoThyme
United States356 Posts
Also, you'll have SO MUCH spare time. Last year was my junior year. I worked 25-30 hours a week, took 18 credit hours per semester, and still have more free time than at any other point in my life. You'll be bored to tears if you go into it expecting school to take up all your time. | ||
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Smoru
United States83 Posts
My first roommate had rather extreme anger issues. I learned to love the CS computer lab that year... My second roommate got trashed quite often and would fight with his girlfriend in the room all the time. 3rd year I finally got to live off campus, and am living in an apartment with friends, mostly fellow comp sci majors. I've had tons of time to play video games. My grades arent amazing, and they probably could be if I studied my ass off instead of gaming it off, but you certainly will have the time to play sc2 and have a social life, (and study  ) | ||
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TheGlassface
United States612 Posts
Where exactly did you decide college is all sex/drinking? Because if you're that inept (as you seem to claim) then believe me...those will not be concerns with you. Also, considering how e-sports isn't a guarantee. I would highly suggest you not just shove college under the belt and act like your only interest should be gaming at a not even finished game (Two expansions and greedy corporate policies from Kotick could easily drive that game into the ground) I'm sorry but you sound insanely naive. I took 6 years after high school and traveled the country, partied, attempted to be a full time writer and then one day it clicked in my head how badly I wanted to get back into college. I spent my time between then learning from Khan, reading textbooks, and MIT courses online. If you're seriously considering in the mindset college = "hell" (lol, try the military champ) then you need some priority checks | ||
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