Does gaming interfere with your studies?

So, I was just wondering really how some of you deal with your hobby while also having to commit a lot of time to studying. I'm doing a health studies course at College, and as you can probably imagine it's A LOT of work... We have to write a lot of reports and do a lot of research and it's just dire... 
 
So basically, I put off my work a lot. I procrastinate immensely and I just end up playing games instead of working on reports that are due in the next morning. I don't even know why I let it happen, but I sit at my computer with Word open, type my title and just blank out, lose all motivation and go off and play something. It's really quite bad.
 
We're on summer break now, and I just managed to pass this year by the skin of my teeth. Next year will be more work and it'll be harder, so I'll have even less time to dedicate to gaming. I'm saying to myself now, before I start again in September, that I'm going to work hard and not let gaming or, for that matter, my social life, interfere with my work, but I already know that it is not gonna work.
 
So are any of you guys similar? I guess you could apply similar things to work for those of you who have done school and college/uni.

Go cold turkey for the first few weeks of the next term. Then you can start working games back into your schedule where they can fit, but you won't feel like you have to play more because you'll hopefully have developed a good study schedule in the absence of games the past several weeks. 

Gaming is literally the devil when it comes to studying. Though I'm also naturally a procrastinator, so that doesn't help.

Nah. I'd be lazy with or without games. Occasionally if a game is good enough I'll go out of my way to play it a lot, but it won't be much more time than what normal laziness takes from me.

" Gaming is literally the devil when it comes to studying.

" @Meteora said:

" Gaming is literally the devil when it comes to studying.

This, try to cut them out altogether, don't sacrifice your future over games, not worth it. "

No, studying interferes with my gaming.

Does studying interfere with your gaming???

It doesn't matter if you stop gaming, you'll find another way to procrastinate. 
 
Just gotta have some will power and do your work. Luckily I managed to get a 1st in my first year of university, even though I had a day of revision before each exam.  PROCRASTINATION. TOO MUCH FUN.

I really just played WoW my senior year in highschool, rather than doing my homework... but ya know, it WAS senior year, nobody really did much of anything, once you're sure you've got enough credits to graduate, the rest of the year is pretty chill.

Games are what caused me to flunk my AS Levels (the year before A Level finals in the UK), but it's what made me realise where I wanted to go in my career.
 
Now gaming IS my study.

" I really just played WoW my senior year in highschool, rather than doing my homework... but ya know, it WAS senior year, nobody really did much of anything, once you're sure you've got enough credits to graduate, the rest of the year is pretty chill. "

" @TooWalrus said:

" I really just played WoW my senior year in highschool, rather than doing my homework... but ya know, it WAS senior year, nobody really did much of anything, once you're sure you've got enough credits to graduate, the rest of the year is pretty chill. "

What about marks for college/university? <.< "

Games or not, I usually go all out to avoid studying. 

" @nail1080 said:

" @Meteora said:

" Gaming is literally the devil when it comes to studying.

This, try to cut them out altogether, don't sacrifice your future over games, not worth it. "

I know but... But they're so fun! ;_;  Seriously though, I just have to find a happy medium, that's the problem at the moment. I can't seem to prioritise correctly. I guess I'll have to see how it goes next year and just really promise myself that I'll study.. "

" @MancombSeepgood said:

" @nail1080 said:

" @Meteora said:

" Gaming is literally the devil when it comes to studying.

This, try to cut them out altogether, don't sacrifice your future over games, not worth it. "

I know but... But they're so fun! ;_;  Seriously though, I just have to find a happy medium, that's the problem at the moment. I can't seem to prioritise correctly. I guess I'll have to see how it goes next year and just really promise myself that I'll study.. "

seriously though, gaming brought down my degree score this year, I missed out on the score i wanted by 1% and to be honest i never studied because i just wanted to game all the time. I t's a pretty bad influece in that regard, I say enjoy the summer for gaming and some holidays but on the usual day to day weekdays stick to the books and you'll be happier overall "

Not really...I usually only play on the weekends and usually late at night when nothing else is going on. What does get in the way slightly is my sports...I commit to them more than anything else.

" Go cold turkey for the first few weeks of the next term. Then you can start working games back into your schedule where they can fit, but you won't feel like you have to play more because you'll hopefully have developed a good study schedule in the absence of games the past several weeks.  "

You should ask: Does you studying interfere with your gaming? 
 
This thread is fail!

It kinda did once.  
It was the day before an exam and some new game had just come out. 
Played the game all night, then came school-time and I got a perfect result on it. 
Perfect score for me! woo!! 
Though that's not hard to do in this country with our books being what they are.  

" @JJWeatherman said:

" Go cold turkey for the first few weeks of the next term. Then you can start working games back into your schedule where they can fit, but you won't feel like you have to play more because you'll hopefully have developed a good study schedule in the absence of games the past several weeks.  "

Ive done this, it works quite well. "

im doing a degree in advanced A.I programming so in some ways, gaming is studying!    

"Go cold turkey for the first few weeks of the next term. Then you can start working games back into your schedule where they can fit, but you won't feel like you have to play more because you'll hopefully have developed a good study schedule in the absence of games the past several weeks.  "

 Anything can interfere with studies. I can find staring at walls more of a worthwhile time if I want to. On the plus side though, whilst at college I could throw together an essay within an hour that would still get me good grades. So it never really impacted me. Can't say it will be the same with Uni though.

I never let gaming get in the way of my studying. But I'm really disciplined with myself. It's about finding a balance.

I barely game at all during semester. I just check out what the latest haps are for games on here and occasionally buy a 4 or 5 star game that takes my fancy. On average I probably get through 7 or 8 full length games a year, and about 5 of them are during my breaks :)

It did, yes. A mix between games and alcohol caused me to fail my university degree. Now it doesn't, because I'm not studying, no do I have money to buy games.

fcourse

" No, studying interferes with my gaming. "

It's the opposite for me. Often I feel like I'm wasting my time playing games, even if I've worked for 10-12 hours, done everything for the day and should relax (what the doctor said). That's why I sometimes don't play any video games for a week or two. It was way different when I was younger and in school so I guess it's just that I've found something as important as games.

This year my xbox went off to be repaired over my exam period I couldn't have planned it better

Not at all for me. I basically stop playing games because I just feel like shit for playing instead of studying. Sadly I waste alot more time watching videos on Break and going on forums because I can do it without thinking whereas playing a game is a conscious decision. 

Gaming doesn't interfere with me at all when studying.  I usually play them at times just to guess the programming logic that lets the game play the way it does.  If there are bugs, I always think of logical ideas as to how it might have happened in the code.
 
Ok, that was a poor excuse for me to deny wasting time hehehe.  In all seriousness, yea I am just making excuses.  Play and study moderately, and you should be fine.  If you like your course, you should not even have a problem like this in the first place, unless you have problems resisting the temptation to see what happens next in your game.

No because I am not studying anymore. And work often interferes in my gaming. Not because I am not home enough. But when I do get home I often don't have the mental fortitude to play games so I turn to watching TV on DVD a lot.

In primary school it did because having fun seemed like the only important thing at that age.

studies?

There were quite a few occasions in my first year of university where I really wanted to game but couldn't because I knew I had work to do. My next year of university is supposed to be tough though so it's gonna be hard to resist the urge to game.

It's interfering right now.

I'm not in school anymore but when I was in Sixth Form (last two years of school before University in England), I did start to play World of Warcraft again and got to Level 80 during the last few months which was really critical but, I still finished my Computing coursework to the best of my ability and I passed 2 out of 3 courses (with the lowest grade but that's because it was just too damn hard for me. I couldn't cope =/) So, no, it didn't affect me at all.
Just wish though that I had something to show for... I just don't feel capable of anything =/ [/depression]

Trying to Juggle playing games, making games and learning about games has been very difficult lately. Our labs have a 360 at each desk. Several lab sessions in the past have turned into l4d lan sessions on the PCs or messing around with XBLA games. Luckily I have a year out now to focus more on the making side of things.