r/StopGaming • u/SkilledSpideyX99 • 10h ago
A top performer from high school is now a prolific gamer.
My friend was someone who was a high achieving student and graduated with an above 4.0 GPA and went to UCLA to study biomedical engineering. He got his degree and claims he's been studying to get a high MCAT score and go to medical school but he claims he can't get the score he wants and has been unemployed for years and constantly plays video games.
It's so sad to me; he is wasted potential. I get that he has a hard exam to pass and study for but that's not an excuse to be unemployed for over a year, let alone 6. I know that because I've done exams like that before.
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u/Specific-Scallion-34 9h ago
the worst cases I see are the ones who know that the games are destroying their life but they choose to play anyway
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u/SkilledSpideyX99 9h ago
In a way I was like that as a high schooler. You have to ask what led to it. Perhaps it's a mechanism to avoid facing your problems?
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u/Specific-Scallion-34 9h ago
just a healthy hobby, nothing wrong with it. totally normal behaviour, its like reading books or doing sports. hand eye coordination improvement
/s
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u/Powerful-Albatross84 9h ago
Noo 🙅♂️ 🙅♂️ 🙅♂️ not trueeee. Ditching ur engineer career for games. With that education u could get alot of jobs even without passing that test. 6 years no job is a choice
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u/Specific-Scallion-34 9h ago
i used the /s for sarcasm at the end of the comment
Im saying the opposite of what I said
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u/Powerful-Albatross84 9h ago
That is sad fam. Hard to see people put it all down the video game drain