I'm gonna set up a server once I move my desktop setup over and ask EVERYONE to join it. It's gonna be fire.
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I've dropped out of college, went back and got an associates degree, tutored three college courses, and I effectively taught one.
Don't be like my one student who watched Fairy Tale with one headphone in all semester because he thought he knew the material already, only to come to me the final week asking how to do what we covered the second week (if statements in C++).
I hope that helps get this through to you: don't do this to yourself. Pay attention in your class, and at the very fucking least record the audio of your lecture for review at double speed later if it's too boring to pay attention to in lecture.
It is very very easy to overestimate your ability to multitask, and you generally won't realize that you've fucked yourself over until it's too late. It's very hard to keep up with new classwork coming in when your understanding is 1-4 lectures behind.
It is possible to do something else while you listen to a lecture and still get what you need out of it, but playing a videogame takes too much focus. Get a pad of paper and doodle. Have two note taking windows open and use one for class notes and the other for idle thoughts.
I wasted literal years of my life and around $50k of student loan debt by doing shit like what you are, sure that I already had it, or that I was keeping up enough to get by. I didn't already have it, I wasn't keeping up. Or I was, but then the class zoomed past me while I was distracted focusing more on custom modding Smash Bros Brawl than my courses and I was fucked with no way to catch up.
This isn’t the fun answer, but it’s the right one, OP. You have access to your professor to ask questions in the moment if something is confusing to you rather than having to find him during office hours, hoping he responds to your email in a reasonable time frame, or dealing with the hassle of tutoring. Let Minecraft be your reward for giving your full attention to class and that game time will be all the sweeter!
Not everyones the same. I have a bachelors and 2 masters and am a miserable student. I played flash video games all of college. I "paid for it" by cramming the last couple weeks of school, but i fucked around for the first 8-10 weeks of the quarter and still got by with no major problem