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Ok...let's start with "don't laugh". I have heard that listing videogame playing can be an asset on MD applications. Let's assume for a minute that that's true.
I have tallied up my estimate of hours played, over 20 years (age 3-23).
For the age bracket of 3-10 yrs, I played about 12hrs/wk. 11-19 yrs, 25hrs/wk, and 19-23 yrs, about 6 hrs/wk. This totals to a ridiculous 16,016 hours of my time I could have spent curing AIDS, or the like.
My question is this...I am highly athletic and heavily involved in organized hockey and gymnastics, and have been in sports all my life. However, I have also been finding the time to play massive amounts of videogames as well. Since I have all my sports stuff documented in my application to the schools I'm applying for, is it ok for me to also put down my videogame playing? And who should I use as a verifier? My momma (lolz)?
For the record, I think videogames are tremendous learning tools. I have learned a ton from playing games, because I don't only play the shooters/GTA-type games. RPGs are my thang, hence the number of hours. I swear, it was super easy to visualize in ochem because of playing vids.
I have tallied up my estimate of hours played, over 20 years (age 3-23).
For the age bracket of 3-10 yrs, I played about 12hrs/wk. 11-19 yrs, 25hrs/wk, and 19-23 yrs, about 6 hrs/wk. This totals to a ridiculous 16,016 hours of my time I could have spent curing AIDS, or the like.
My question is this...I am highly athletic and heavily involved in organized hockey and gymnastics, and have been in sports all my life. However, I have also been finding the time to play massive amounts of videogames as well. Since I have all my sports stuff documented in my application to the schools I'm applying for, is it ok for me to also put down my videogame playing? And who should I use as a verifier? My momma (lolz)?
For the record, I think videogames are tremendous learning tools. I have learned a ton from playing games, because I don't only play the shooters/GTA-type games. RPGs are my thang, hence the number of hours. I swear, it was super easy to visualize in ochem because of playing vids.
