Sunday, November 18, 2007

A Look at Video Gaming in College


College is known as a place to learn a higher education and to develop into a self-reliant, full functioning member of society. When students aren't in the classroom learning or at the library studying, a common time consumer/killer is video games. Video games are a common place where kids can go to get away from the stresses of school and take out their stress on some form of virtual plane.

A survey from MSNBC.msn.com found that 70% of all American College Students play Video games "once in a while", and 50% of all college students admitted that they play video games or online games to avoid studying.

The average college Gamer spends close to 5-10 hours playing videogames in a week. But in a survey taken in Times magazine it was shown that there are some students who consider themselves "hardcore gamers" and play up to 8-12 hours a day.

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