Assalamualaikum and a very warm hello to all you readers out there...
And yes I have come back from my loooooooooooooooooonggggggggg disappearance.
Well, I have a lot to tell you about. About the games I have played and all, and what happened in my current life. *fumbling fingers I, well, I have little time to write about it so, I pictured it in my insta and well...
Anyway, I thought for a start, I would like to post an essay I wrote to my English lecturer when he asked us to write a 500 word long essay on what we would like to research about so here it is *drumroll
Students insight on video games and studying life
Almost all of the human
population play this little thing we call video games. We play it on consoles
such as Play Station 3 or XBOX 360, Wii, our desktops, laptops and even in our
tablets or smartphones. Over the years, everything has evolved and every specs
of video gaming has improved immensely whether regarding graphics, designs,
controls, the engine, character and the storyline of the game itself. Playing
video games doesn’t count on what gender you are or how your level of gaming
is. It’s a universal activity that we can see happening every day in each part
of the world. Though some questions always rose: Is video games good for you?
What are the positivity and the negativity in gaming?
Researches by experts have been
conducted throughout the years and the results have always been debated. Some
concluded if we play action games improves our abilities in decision making and
fast thinking without sacrificing our accuracy. Another example is if we play a
lot of strategy games, it will improve our management skills where in strategy
games requires us to manage our resources in building a city, to march on an
enemy or how defenses should take place if we are attacked. On psychological
level, they say video games effects someone’s emotions and social life, where
violent games tend to make someone become violent. Some say otherwise. Even so,
video games are an ongoing mystery that researches are still trying to crack
the ultimate code on where video games fit in our lives.
I am at the peak of my curiosity
on where it fit in a student’s life. People always say that video games are a
waste of time on which the time spent on gaming should rather be spent on
studying. True, but should we ignore the benefits it gives us which could be
implied in studying? It gets to my nerve when someone says that a gamer has no
life and that we should wake up to reality because I am a gamer myself and that
I am a student. I would really like to prove the world wrong that video games
are all bad and that no good fits in the equation per se. But being on student
level, I have limit authority and conducting big experiments will be impossible
but I would start from the bottom if I had to.
My research is about getting the
students views on video gaming and study life. Is it appropriate to play games
while being a student? What are their thoughts on people who play video games
while being a student, whether it is themselves or other people? If we play it
properly while observing the right ethics will it make any difference? What are
the effects? My research will involve students who are studying here in CFS
IIUM and whether they play video games or not. If it permits, I would like to
even send some survey on my gaming friends on the internet that came from
everywhere around the world and that we would converge and play video games
together most times on our gaming network. I would hand out surveys containing
questions regarding my research. From the surveys, I will properly go through the
results and make a conclusion.
Miza Syakirah
Group 192
Sir Shahrul
Annuar
So yeah, I was surprised I could write that in just half an hour *flips hair
because he told us that afternoon by text and asked us to submit before five that evening and I was like WHAT?!
But I managed to send it before 2. Which is well *flips hair again
