This is more of a question and maybe a discussion thread, but I was planning on studying abroad for school to Australia and it got me wondering if maybe someone here knows how the Australian ranked is versus North America.
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Did you not read the comment either?
The dude is saying dont spend your downtime playing valorant. Experience the country and environment as much as you can, as not many people are able to study abroad.
Staying inside plying videogames is why he's saying you'll come back with regrets, and you didn't experience the perks of studying abroad.
Also with his comment. he said he studied abroad. there's still so much he wishes he could see.
I'm with Sem1- with this.
Take advantage of going to a new country, and make memories and experiences. Who cares about a few months away from a video game.
Studying is his main focus, so anything outside of that, would be considered downtime. going out and exploring, or just spending the day at a beach. That is also downtime.
If he spends it just playing ranked on valorant all day, go for it. If he goes out, go for it.
Sem1-, was just saying dont do something you could potentially regret. He's going to another country to study, which is usually a once in a lifetime chance. Squandering it by playing videogames just seems like a waste of an opportunity.
We're also not saying he can't play games. it's all his choice in what he does.
Also with countries being interesting, etc. It's all in the eyes of the beholder. I find the UK god awful boring. Some people come here and spend weeks doing random shit I would never think was interesting.
I also didn't read all the comments below either. Was just responding with the comments above, as context. OP stated he was just wondering, about it. That's fine. It's fine if he did stay inside. I'm just trying to add onto what Sem1 was talking about, as he's also talking from experience of handling a similar situation.
Read what? That for him the only downtime is playing games? IDK if you have studied abroad, but it's always a clown fiesta when it comes to studying and they designed your stay for you to experience the country and culture even though nobody will explicitly write it down they kinda expect that from you. We would take a whole week off and fly away to see the mountains for example and nobody would bat an eye. Of course don't overdo it since they have the power to expel you if you don't show up at all, but that's common sense.
Studying is really just a small part of studying abroad in my opinion. Also 4 months will be gone before you even realize it. Someone said that it's a good way to pass the night, well to me it's not, I'd rather eat out with friends or do literally anything other than gaming.
Funnily enough my Zhima credit is dogshit, it was like 400 so at the end of my stay I couldn't even rent out the bicycles in the small cities. My credit tanked, because I rented out an electronic bike and didn't return it to the correct place so I got fined and my stupid ass that couldn't read Chinese didn't know that I had to pay it, so it just sat there in alipay and kept getting bigger lol
IDK if the social credit is somehow linked to it or if it's the same, but from that time it probably went down even more, since I had to return my debit card, but I just took it with me lol. Also we still kept using WeChat to chat (my non Chinese friends who I made there) and we kinda memed and talked shit about China, so I don't think I'll be coming back anytime soon to see all the things I missed.
Australia has a lot of fun places to explore, try not to waste too much time playing valor. I'm a very low rank in Sydney servers and 50% of my rank is terrible and the other 50% hit every headshot, it'll be a lot different than you think. Also btw, you'll see spiders but you will never get bitten, or really rarely mosquitoes and whatever bug that gets on me when I'm sleeping and bites me 500 times is what you should be scared off
Good luck!
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