Important Note for My Students

Posted on by Chad Orzel

A while back, I noted that one student wrote on the all-important course evaluation form “He should wear more pink.” I’m still not sure what that meant.

Given that the second most ridiculous comment in that class was “[student name] is the worst Warcraft player ever,” I should probably point our majors to this interview with an addiction doctor (via Jake):

Having treated all types of addictions for more than 15 years, Orzack says there’s little difference between drug use, excessive gambling and heavy game playing. And with millions of gamers hooked on mega-popular massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs), she believes the problem is growing rapidly. In fact, Orzack says as much as 40 percent of World of Warcraft players are addicted to the game.

Got that? Computer games are evil.

(Not that I really have a claim on the moral high ground, what with Super Tecmo Bowl having eaten a good chunk of my junior year… But, ummm… Warcraft is qualitatively different. Or something.)

5 thoughts on “Important Note for My Students”

  1. Well if you were at the University of Waterloo (Ontario Canada), I’d wadger that the student was in Math. Pink is (and more importantly pink ties) kind of a big deal around
    here.

  2. SimCity, man. SimCity. Gotta get me some of that SimCity. SimCity, man.

    And there went a large chunk of my freshman year. The ONLY saving grace was that I did not have a computer in my own room, and I had to go next door to play on one of my mates’. And he could boot me from the room, like a responsible computer owner should.

    Whereupon I went down the hall to the room with the Nintendo to join in the Mike Tyson PunchOut! brigade.

    In retrospect, I marvel that I was even able to keep a 3.0.

  3. My best two (from when I was at UMD) were:

    “He’s great to do bong hits with.”

    and

    “He provides good fantasy material.”

    I have no idea what either of these two were talking about. Fortunately those will never be seen by a tenure committee…

  4. I have no idea what either of these two were talking about. Fortunately those will never be seen by a tenure committee…

    Unless they Google up this blog post, that is…

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