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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1040447" data-attributes="member: 5328">G'dayMy experience (of gaming my way through UNSW and ANU) is that:1) RPGs are a great pass-time for cash-strapped undergrads, because they are so damned cheap to play.2) Unless you are working nights and weekends to make ends meet, the slack schedules of undergrads will give you more time to game in college than you will have at any other time of your life. High School probably puts you in class 30 hours per week. Unless you study Architecture, Engineering, or Medicine, college will probably put you in class less than twenty hours per week. (When I was a Engineering student, with 37.5 hours of classes per week, plus a need to prep for labs, do assignments etc., I overheard two Arts students complaining with apparent sincerity that their class schedules of 14 hours per week were too heavy.)The secret is to try to learn during the lectures, rather than goofing off during the lectures and cramming in your free time. So sit at the front, don't sit with your friends, pay attention, buy the textbooks, read the lessons before the lectures, don't waste your attention taking notes in class (you have the text-book, right?), and if you don't understand something, ask about it right away (lecturers don't mind questions from attentive students). If your classmates go to ask the lecturer questions at the end of a lecturer, go and listen to their questions and the answers.I gamed four to five five-to-six-hour sessions per week while I was an undergrad, and still kept a place on the Dean's List, while working as a private tutor during semester and as a cook in the holidays. My secret was to learn in class.3) University campuses are the best places on Earth to find gamers and form gaming groups. If there is no gaming club, put up a sign on a noticeboard.Regards,Agback</blockquote>

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