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http://www.tv6.se/blog/thorzain/framtidsplaner
Excerpt from his blog but still check it out for more details.
"Hey! Just got done streaming for the day and I'm currently talking on Inside The Game. I've decided to talk a bit about my future plans. To do this, I'll have to go back to 1½ years ago.
It was a period when I was feeling very bad. I was playing very decent Starcraft but I wasn't feeling very well as a human being. I sat at home and mostly just played and went to tournaments. Nothing really wrong with that but I had no plans for the future and I didn't think playing was as fun anymore. I was mostly playing because it was the only thing I knew. I felt a lot of anxiety and it felt like I didn't really have anything to live for. I started becoming depressed and spent a lot of time searching the Internet for aid. I was very confused and didn't know who I was or where I was going in life. I regretted the past and worried over the future. I started becoming interested in what I read and kept getting more and more interested in psychology, psychiatry and general mental health. After a while I started buying books on the subject that I gladly read through. I felt that this was something I had a passion for, something I wanted to do in the future. I decided that psychiatry was my thing. I immediately started feeling better, this was something I needed to get rid of my anxiety. When I started feeling better I felt that I was still interested and that it wasn't something I developed an interest for just to help myself. I wanted to be able to help others too.
My grades in high school were pretty good, but not good enough for med school. This was something I had developed a lot of anxiety over, because one of the reasons for not having better grades was my high absence. I had however completed the SAT a couple of times and kept doing it every time I could because why not as long as I wasn't already studying and had a bunch of free time anyway. I managed to score very decently so I stopped worrying as much over my grades.
I'm 22 years old now and I've told myself and others for a long time that I don't want to keep doing e-sports full time for too long, because according to me it doesn't provide you with a very secure or bright future, especially not if you've 'only' been a progamer. I've applied for university every year since I finished high school but always turned it down because I wanted to keep being a progamer. My motivation has swindled and I feel that I still want to keep playing, but not put all my eggs in the Starcraft 2 basket so to speak. I played more Starcraft and improved my play much faster when Starcraft was a hobby and not a job. Now I've decided to accept my university invitation and will be studying at Linköping's med school program starting this autumn and 5½ years forward, while I keep playing Starcraft on the side as much as I can. It won't be easy and I'll probably devote almost all my time to studying and playing Starcraft, and not much else. I've spoken with EG and will still be representing them in the future.
Hopefully it's not as bad as it sounds despite not exactly being an easy field of study. For better or worse, I was never the kind of player to play a whole lot to begin with, but we'll see how it ends up.
Wish me luck!
See ya!."
Best of luck Thorzain!
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awww one of my fav terran player
hopefully he will not fall out from the scene
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Good choice, I wish him good luck !
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One thing for sure, I have a much easier time picturing Thorzain as a doctor than I do Stephano! 
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Thorzain vs Stephano bo3 in knowledge of medicine.
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gl greatest TSL champion 
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On August 14 2013 18:47 ramask2 wrote:One thing for sure, I have a much easier time picturing Thorzain as a doctor than I do Stephano!
Really? I don't. In terms of the social dynamic, stephano has a sort of natural arrogance, where as thorzain always gave me the impression he was still really socially awkward and afraid. I'm not insulting him, i'm that way also  .
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On August 14 2013 18:36 BlackPanther wrote:
[...]spend most of my time to plug and starcraft, and not much else[...]
Now that's some wicked Swenglish right there. 
Still, best of luck to him with his studies.
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"to plug" that is some mighty Swenglish
GL to him thou !
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On August 14 2013 18:36 BlackPanther wrote:http://www.tv6.se/blog/thorzain/framtidsplanerExcerpt from his blog but still check it out for more details. "I'm more starcraft and improved my game a lot faster when starcraft was a hobby, not a job. now I have decided to accept the University and will be studying at medical school in Linköping now for autumn and 5 ½ years, and play starcraft as much as I can outside of school stuff. It will not be easy and I will probably spend most of my time to plug and starcraft, and not much else. I've talked with the EC and will continue to represent them in the future." Best of luck Thorzain!
EC = EG; Google translate doing some weird translation here. Anyway: GL to Thorzain.
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Guess that means EG will have even more money to spend on players when JD's contract is up for renewal, no Idra, half a Thorzain and no Stephano.
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Austria24420 Posts
Universities are stealing all the EG players
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Here's a full translation you can edit into the OP, enjoy. The quality of writing reflects that of the original text.
Future plans
Hey! Just got done streaming for the day and I'm currently talking on Inside The Game. I've decided to talk a bit about my future plans. To do this, I'll have to go back to 1½ years ago.
It was a period when I was feeling very bad. I was playing very decent Starcraft but I wasn't feeling very well as a human being. I sat at home and mostly just played and went to tournaments. Nothing really wrong with that but I had no plans for the future and I didn't think playing was as fun anymore. I was mostly playing because it was the only thing I knew. I felt a lot of anxiety and it felt like I didn't really have anything to live for. I started becoming depressed and spent a lot of time searching the Internet for aid. I was very confused and didn't know who I was or where I was going in life. I regretted the past and worried over the future. I started becoming interested in what I read and kept getting more and more interested in psychology, psychiatry and general mental health. After a while I started buying books on the subject that I gladly read through. I felt that this was something I had a passion for, something I wanted to do in the future. I decided that psychiatry was my thing. I immediately started feeling better, this was something I needed to get rid of my anxiety. When I started feeling better I felt that I was still interested and that it wasn't something I developed an interest for just to help myself. I wanted to be able to help others too.
My grades in high school were pretty good, but not good enough for med school. This was something I had developed a lot of anxiety over, because one of the reasons for not having better grades was my high absence. I had however completed the SAT a couple of times and kept doing it every time I could because why not as long as I wasn't already studying and had a bunch of free time anyway. I managed to score very decently so I stopped worrying as much over my grades.
I'm 22 years old now and I've told myself and others for a long time that I don't want to keep doing e-sports full time for too long, because according to me it doesn't provide you with a very secure or bright future, especially not if you've 'only' been a progamer. I've applied for university every year since I finished high school but always turned it down because I wanted to keep being a progamer. My motivation has swindled and I feel that I still want to keep playing, but not put all my eggs in the Starcraft 2 basket so to speak. I played more Starcraft and improved my play much faster when Starcraft was a hobby and not a job. Now I've decided to accept my university invitation and will be studying at Linköping's med school program starting this autumn and 5½ years forward, while I keep playing Starcraft on the side as much as I can. It won't be easy and I'll probably devote almost all my time to studying and playing Starcraft, and not much else. I've spoken with EG and will still be representing them in the future.
Hopefully it's not as bad as it sounds despite not exactly being an easy field of study. For better or worse, I was never the kind of player to play a whole lot to begin with, but we'll see how it ends up.
Wish me luck!
See ya!
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Thorzain gonna become the Spoon Doctor LOL.
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On August 14 2013 18:57 Clazziquai10 wrote:
Thorzain gonna become the Spoon Doctor LOL.
He could have healed the patient long time ago, but just to be sure nothing goes wrong he keeps him in the hospital for an additional year.
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France9034 Posts
Reading this, it feels he's doing the right thing !
Will miss a bit the Spoon Terran (well, he doesn't retire, but we may see less of him), the first terran I really rooted for back in the middle of TSL3 !
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On August 14 2013 18:47 ramask2 wrote:One thing for sure, I have a much easier time picturing Thorzain as a doctor than I do Stephano!
Stephano said at WCS EU Finals Season 1 that he doesn't want to study medicine anymore, because it takes too long. He wants to study ...engineering... somewhat.
@ Topic: More and more of the progamers that were Topnotch when i started with SC2 are now retiring or are not really as active or good as they were back in 2011. IEM CeBIT 2011 and TSL 3 were the first tournaments i watched and loved. AcE, Moon, ThorZaIN, NaNiwa, HuK, even MC. Quite sad to realize that time goes by. Even sadder to realize time goes by through SC2 Announcements...
Anyway, GL to Thorzain.
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drop the spoon, come back with a scalpel!
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EPT
