Your college exp

[Gothmog]

I started gaming when I was 10, so by the time I got to undergrad (I went to Drury College in Springfield MO), I had prepared myself that I wouldn't have as much time to game. As it turns out, my four years of undergrad were the best gaming years of my life- we gamed once a week, usually all day Saturday. The campaign I started back then (10 years ago!) is still going strong, although we haven't had the chance to game as much the last few years due to some players moving away and me finishing my PhD. Hope this helps!

 

[Psion]

No, not how much exp you got during college. But, for one, did you go to college? Where? Did you play dnd is college? How did college affect your dnd playing?

Got my BS in Engineering at Idaho State Universtity. Grew up there, so I basically just slid back in with my old gaming group after my stint in the navy. I played a lot more then than I do now... but I attribute that to children. It was also sort of nice to be able to work on game stuff between classes; now all my free time gets stolen away by the family unless I make time for it.

Got my MS in Electrical Engineering at Florida Tech. Night classes while working my regular 40 hour job. Needless to say, that cut into the gaming and game prep time.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I played D&D in college FAR TOO MUCH!

I swear to freaking god, if I had taken one-tenth of my time reading Shadowrun books and applied it to any one of my subjects I was suppossed to be studying I would have graduated Magna Cum Laude.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Went to Cornell University. Never played while there, though. The few gamers I met were mostly the "I'm too cool for AD&D crowd." Since I really wasn't into Vampire and Mage and what not (and didn't enjoy time spent with those gamers, either), I very quickly switched over to computer games and some Magic.

Now I'm back at Cornell, doing the employee/grad student thing, and looking for a game.

 

[EricNoah]

I played D&D in high school, and after college, but basically not at all during the first couple of years of college. I'd just gone through a phase where I stupidly thought "I'm too old for this" and sold all of my 1st edition stuff for like $10.

A couple of years into college 2nd edition was slowly released and I started picking up books, etc. and played with a few of my college friends (who were actually also my high school friends). I also ran some one-DM one-Player games for a while during and after college and then those dwindled and died as friends got married.

It wasn't until grad school when I was feeling like I wasn't getting ANY D&D action that my wife's encouragement lead to me actively looking for a group of strangers and I wound up with the group I still play with now, 7 years later.

 

[Zappo]

Not that anyone cares, but I've just got the maximum mark in the aforementioned databases exam.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Congratulations, Zappo.

Makes me feel better about my lurking around the boards right before exams

 

[Tuerny]

I am in college right now. Going to college has done nothing but help the amount of time I have had gaming as I haven't had to deal with parental oversight to my time management so I have been able to devote an increasing portion of my attention span to making sure I game every week.

A year ago I transfered to the University of Central Florida. I tried a few aborted attempts at a campagn but have yet to be able to get one to last long-term.

My newest group (which should have story hour up in a few weeks) is turning out very, very well though...

 

[Wicht]

I played about 4 nights a week every week with guys in my dorm my freshman year of college. That was a blast.

My sophomore year I played about once a week. I got married the summer after that and didn't play much my junior year, but my senior year I managed to play about once a week. It was really a great time for me for playing and after college I didn't get to play much for about five or six years, only managing to get groups together these last couple of years after the release of 3e.

 

[Crothian]

My first year of college was at Bowling Green State University in NW Ohio. I was introduced to more RPGs that year then the whole rest of my gaming life. We played 10 hours friday, and about 14 hours on Saturdays. It was a lot of fun.