I Was A Teenage Adventure Gamer – Welcome to Just Adventure + – Articles

Articles

I Was A Teenage Adventure Gamer
by Matthew Desmond
December 20, 2001

That Time In Your Life….

Well, I apologize for not having written this column recently. I was held up due to a number of pre-Christmas duties that every high school Senior is stuck with at my high school. To go to college or not go to college, that is the question. To apply, to wait, to, recieve an answer, to shout with joy or weep with anguish. And that is as far as the Shakespeare crap goes.

Yes, it is the time to fill out all of those silly applications (and yes, some of them I’ve been tempted to fill out are very silly.) Answering questions that need not be asked, “Do you live with your parents?” Yes. “Are your parents dead?” No. “If you answered ‘yes’ to the last question, please explain the circumstances.” Who the Hell are you guys supposed to be? A college or a morgue?

It’s also time to go to the colleges and listen to the admissions people try and talk you into going to their college. And if their college is really horrible and they are desperate for students to apply? They shower you with gifts. I don’t know how many college t-shirts I have in my drawers…..enough, that’s….for sure.

Not that I’m complaining or anything, this is a busy time of year. To those of you who have gone through it, I now have a greater appreciation of what sort of hell it can be. Especially with some of those acceptance letters. “Please send $50 to the office of admissions by xxxx.” Fifty dollars sounds reasonable. Another letter I received asked me to send $150 to them by April 1st, 2002. Now, please realize, I have applied to five colleges so far. If I get accepted to all five, and statistically speaking, that is really inaccurate, I’d be lucky to get into 3 out of 5 or maybe 4 out of 5, and I sent in the deposit for all 5 of them with intentions of going, including the room and board fee deposit, that’d be well over $1000.

Now, I admit, I have been accepted to two colleges so far and I mailed in 3 applications last week, so, I won’t hear from the other 3 until after the New Year. The two colleges are University of Maine at Presque Isle for criminal justice with a concentration in pre-law and Thomas College with business management (I swear I did not know that the major was actually ‘business management’) with a concentration in pre-law. And so far, the most lucrative offer is U.M.P.I. (paying the $50 tutition fee is right up my alley), not to mention the fact that there are a lot of professors that used to be lawyers up there. So, I’m probably going to go there.

Now, as for video games, have I had time for video games? Yes indeedy! I’ve been playing a lot of oldies for right now, games like Grim Fandango, Leisure Suit Larry (brilliant game!) and some others. So far, I’m hooked on Grim Fandango. I’ve also been playing SpyCraft, it’s a pretty good yarn. Unrealistic and everything, but the storyline is incredible. And let me say one more thing, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.