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United States10091 Posts
Yeah, I know it seems sad. My best friend is a video game. Mhm. But the time that this video game has given me, whether it would be rage or glowing in pride, I've grown close to it. Starcraft will forever be my best friend.
September 7th, 2011 will be the day that I uninstall this beautiful game. A game that has brought me to this glorious website we all know... as teamliquid.net. Now most of you are wondering... If it is your best friend... Why are you leaving it? Two words. Asian Parents. Joking aside, I'm going into 10th grade, or a sophmore, at my high school. 10th and 11th are the toughest and most important years of your education to get into college. I've already messed up my frosh year, with a low GPA of 93.5 (unweighted. Weighted is 95.3) And seeing how I want to become a ENT doctor (ear, nose, throat) when I grow up, it's time to set my distractions aside.
I'm an indecisive person when it comes to Starcraft... First I mained Protoss... then I did a mix of PvT, PvZ, and TvP... then I mained Zerg... and now... well I don't even know what I want now... What I want is not to lose this game. Not to lose something that has comforted me every time I double click that little icon sitting in the center of my screen.
Does this mean the end? No. I will be back. After the torture of 11th grade (hopefully a high SAT score with that), I will finally run into the calm... The calm known as the "Who Give a Fuck I'm a Senior" year. I will pick up this game again. But 2 years... 2 long endless years without Starcraft... It will probably feel like eternity.
The game that has brought me so much happiness, well what can I say. It is my best friend.
-FlaShFTW
P.S. As I am quitting, I'm going to play like crazy these last few days I have. So for those people who would PLEASE play me, I will be located at op teamliquid on ICCup with the alias of KT.FaTe[BSG]. I want desperately to do at least one RACE WARS with other TLers. I will be on almost all the time. Thank you for reading.
 
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Everything in moderation dude. Just play at weekends?
I dont understand why you have to uninstall it completely? You can't be working all the time?
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We'll see you in a few weeks.
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Man, you're not even in uni yet. Enjoy these years, you can play a couple of hours a day np.
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United States10091 Posts
wat do you guys mean???  i cant play a couple hours a day... and not even weekends pstar. its gona be study, study, study.
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Do you actually want to be an ENT or do you just project the desires your parents have for you onto your own?
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Canada2055 Posts
doesnt seem like a good idea to me. how much studying can u do in gr10?? obsessing about 1 thing at the expense of others is a recipe for disaster
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Just play starcraft 2. That doesn't take practice.
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United States10091 Posts
On September 05 2011 04:38 Manacakes wrote:
Just play starcraft 2. That doesn't take practice.
lol word bro.
i want to actually be an ENT. my parents wanted me to be a doctor, but i wanted to be an ENT. i had a fantastic ENT doctor, really nice guy and always made me feel better back in california (NJ residence) and he was an ENT. kinda like a role model.
as for the studying, im gonna be in 2 AP and 2 honors. AP chem, AP us history, pre-calc honors, LA grade 10 honors. and mandarin chinese 4 which i can really screw cause i already know chinese (grade booster trollololol). I want to get into johns hopkins university because i love the campus and the CTY programs ive attended are pretty good. so its my goal so far. ivy league wouldnt be bad either.
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95 average is high enough to get into any program anywhere...I fail to see how that is you fucking up.
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thedeadhaji
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meh, if you're serious about your studies, videogames won't get in the way of your success b/c you know what you gotta do to get the grades.
Speaking from experience.
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What about vacations and summer?
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On September 05 2011 04:18 FlaShFTW wrote:wat do you guys mean??? i cant play a couple hours a day... and not even weekends pstar. its gona be study, study, study.
Which is ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason to put that kind of effort into your school work until you're at least into your undergraduate years. You can get into a good enough college to do whatever you'd want without devoting your entire life to school.
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What's the point of an education if it completely compromises your actual interests?
If you're not THAT interested in this education, I can only see two possible outcomes here:
1. It won't work out...back to normal.
2. Your parents force you, and you end up getting depressed.
Anyway, it's your life - Do whatever you want.
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Listen to me.
93.5 is more than enough to get into a good undergrad, which isn't even necessary for you to get into a high-ranked med school. Johns Hopkins is fairly straightforward to get into, and after a certain point it's your ECs and SATs that matter, not whether your GPA is 93 or 95 or 97. 2 APs and 2 honors? You think that's a *hard* schedule and you want to go to med school? If you think that's tough, you may as well give up right now, because you're going to die in med school. Take it easy, relax, and don't continually stress about college admissions. They are barely relevant to med school admissions, anyway. What you *should* be doing if you want to get into a good med school is starting volunteering, doctor shadowing, and research in a lab. Those are the ECs that med schools want to see and it's best to accumulate as much time doing those as possible, instead of worrying about a few minute points in your GPA.
High school is easy, no matter how many APs you take. Enjoy it.
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The guy who says moderation is right. What he didn't detail is that literally everything is in moderation.
Some studies, some video-games. Sacrificing one, doesn't mean the other improves.
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What they hell are you studying in 10th grade that takes all of your time? 93.5/100 sounds a good deal above average to me, i don't see how that's "messing up." Your choice, i guess, but why not just leave it installed and play a game or two on the weekends?
Hell, you could make it an incentive ("if I finish this essay, i can play starcraft for a while.")
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On September 05 2011 04:50 thedeadhaji wrote:
meh, if you're serious about your studies, videogames won't get in the way of your success b/c you know what you gotta do to get the grades.
Speaking from experience.
Agreed.
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I'd personally keep it anyway as a stress reliever. You need these things man!
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United States10091 Posts
lol id say the same intotheheart. xD if you guys think so i mean i dont think its the hardest schedule, i just think that im gonna need to put in more effort. i want higher grades lol.
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thedeadhaji
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On September 05 2011 05:05 Torte de Lini wrote:
The guy who says moderation is right. What he didn't detail is that literally everything is in moderation.
Some studies, some video-games. Sacrificing one, doesn't mean the other improves.
I had a college roommates ban himself from videogames only to spend the same hours (if not more) into browsing websites.
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lucky you, cuz brood war/dota is an addiction for me and i've been trying to quit for years
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On September 05 2011 04:50 thedeadhaji wrote:
meh, if you're serious about your studies, videogames won't get in the way of your success b/c you know what you gotta do to get the grades.
Speaking from experience.
Holy shit! Has anyone told you before how amazing it is that all your posts (the ones ive seen anyway) suit your icon so well? :D!
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Maybe Starcraft is more important to you than becoming a ENT Doc? If so... well.. 
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no offense but high school is the easy part. this is a mentality you should save for later, ie college and work as an adult. enjoy your youth to some extent, and keep starcraft in your life, just a little bit.
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On September 05 2011 05:35 FlaShFTW wrote:
lol id say the same intotheheart. xD if you guys think so i mean i dont think its the hardest schedule, i just think that im gonna need to put in more effort. i want higher grades lol.
So do I, I'm starting Gr.12 with a full IB year. Man you NEED some way of cooling off. A friend of mine got a 96 average with around 20 hours of swimming a week plus swim meets. I mean if he can do that, you can play a bit of SC.
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I thought your best friend died. What a shitty title.
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United States10091 Posts
On September 05 2011 06:59 garlicface wrote:
I thought your best friend died. What a shitty title.
lol rage. i was trying to make a creative title. soz lol if you dont like it.
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On September 05 2011 05:21 IntoTheheart wrote:
I'd personally keep it anyway as a stress reliever. You need these things man!
Agreed man, you'll go batshit-crazy without something to relieve the stress. At least try and get some leisure in on weekends, whether it be starcraft or something else.
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On September 05 2011 05:21 IntoTheheart wrote:
I'd personally keep it anyway as a stress reliever. You need these things man!
Yes absolutely, SC has become a stress reliever for me. If I don't play for awhile, I get agitated and frustrated much more easily then when I'm playing regularly. Studying all the time and cutting out something you really enjoy will hurt you way more than occasionally playing some SC. You will get stressed out, burn out and your grades will slip if you devote 100% of your time to studying. Fuck that, play games, enjoy yourself, AP US is easy peasy, AP Chem is tricky, but its just more of what you already learned in regular Chem. It sounds like your a smart guy, so don't totally make your self miserable in some of the best years of your youth. If you really want to go to med-school, then you need to have fun while you still can.
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On September 05 2011 09:03 Rasun wrote:Show nested quote +On September 05 2011 05:21 IntoTheheart wrote:
I'd personally keep it anyway as a stress reliever. You need these things man! Yes absolutely, SC has become a stress reliever for me. If I don't play for awhile, I get agitated and frustrated much more easily then when I'm playing regularly. Studying all the time and cutting out something you really enjoy will hurt you way more than occasionally playing some SC. You will get stressed out, burn out and your grades will slip if you devote 100% of your time to studying. Fuck that, play games, enjoy yourself, AP US is easy peasy, AP Chem is tricky, but its just more of what you already learned in regular Chem. It sounds like your a smart guy, so don't totally make your self miserable in some of the best years of your youth. If you really want to go to med-school, then you need to have fun while you still can.
^ Pretty much that. IDK about American Med schools, but Canadian ones REQUIRE a ton of extra-curriculurs too. How does SC help? Well you see involvement in the eSports community would probably give you a ton of help... eSports is a new thing and you might as well... ride the lightning. \m/
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You'll come crawling back  Nobody gives up SC.
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On September 05 2011 05:47 thedeadhaji wrote:Show nested quote +On September 05 2011 05:05 Torte de Lini wrote:
The guy who says moderation is right. What he didn't detail is that literally everything is in moderation.
Some studies, some video-games. Sacrificing one, doesn't mean the other improves. I had a college roommates ban himself from videogames only to spend the same hours (if not more) into browsing websites.
My mother, when I was a child, took away my video-games during my high-school so I would learn french faster and essentially graduate from my high-school (I went to a french high-school unfortunately).
If I got good grades, she would think her method worked.
If I didn't, it's because I found an alternative to waste my time.
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Speaking from the point of view of a 40 year old who has been through it all, I get the feeling that you are putting yourself through too much stress over your grades. The grades you've been getting doing what you've already been doing are good enough to let you choose any path you want in life.
I'll also put out there that going into 11th grade, the vision you have for your future doesn't necessarily resemble what you'll actually wind up doing. It's possible that you will become a medical doctor, if that kind of work is really your passion -- but you don't have to make that decision now.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't make the most of your education, but it's pretty clear to me that you already are. The grades you're getting tell me that you are attending to your work and doing well. I'd say you should be enjoying the increasing freedom that you enjoy with every year you get older as a teenager, and trust that you're already putting the effort into your work that you should.
Edit: If your grades are on a scale of 0-150 or something, I take it back, but if they are 0-100, what's the problem?
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thedeadhaji
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On September 05 2011 06:08 marttorn wrote:Show nested quote +On September 05 2011 04:50 thedeadhaji wrote:
meh, if you're serious about your studies, videogames won't get in the way of your success b/c you know what you gotta do to get the grades.
Speaking from experience. Holy shit! Has anyone told you before how amazing it is that all your posts (the ones ive seen anyway) suit your icon so well? :D!
I have high standards for myself and others, because I believe we are all capable of doing great things and having ironclad discipline
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It's clear you're very motivated at the moment, but how will you feel a few weeks from now? Unless you've got an iron will, you, like most of us would, will miss StarCraft very much and have an urge to come back to it. Is it really best to go cold turkey? You're certainly not going to be studying every single minute of the next year.
I'd even argue that a few hours of StarCraft every week would be beneficial to you: it'd give you something fun to do to take your mind off the stress that junior year will definitely put on you at some point. I took BC Calc, Physics 1, AP US History, AP Latin: Vergil, and Artificial Intelligence last year, which was an absolute nightmare sometimes, and during those moments my time with my friends and playing StarCraft was absolutely critical to keeping me sane.
edit: additional thoughts
low GPA of 93.5
Really? On our grading scale that's an A (we don't have A+'s). Like others have said, relax a little. High school is a time to learn to be responsible, sure, but that doesn't mean you have to turn yourself into a machine. Cut loose sometimes and have a little fun. If your GPA is that high you can definitely afford it.
Do what you think is best for you, but be sure to think it through.
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GPA of 93? WTF mine was only 4.1 my senior year. Sounds like you're fine.
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United States10328 Posts
glhf. i wish the best of luck, and the most of willpower to you.
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Kinda silly tbh
You're from America, unless you're at like the hardest private high school ever, or you're in a toooooooooooon of extra-cirricular activities there is no reason to stop playing/watching. You'll have the most free time of your life in the next few years, don't torture yourself. High school isn't that important (nor difficult).
Do this when you go to college (but not really, until your junior year cos its still pretty easy lol).
That being said, I suppose if you have horrible priority management this could be somewhat necessary...
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