Who woulda thunk?

Today is the first official day of Summer Academy. Today we played various video games in this extremely air-conditioned room, including SmashBros. on Game Cube, Monkey Ball on Wii, Mortal Kombat on PS2, Halo on XBox 360, and Guitar Hero on XBox/Wii. Some I liked more than others but I was especially surprised to have enjoyed playing Halo. I've played it once before but never really gave it a chance until today. I was actually pretty good at it after a little while. After playing all these games, we discussed the stereotypes and issues surrounding video games. We mostly agreed that girls are inferior when it comes to video games. We all observed that even though there are female characters in popular video games, their outfits are sexy and barely there. At the end of our discussion, we were asked who considered themselves a "gamer". Out of 21, only 4 girls (I was not one of them) considered themselves to be gamers. This showed how real the issue actually was when only a handful of girls were big on games, concluding our discussion. All in all, I enjoyed today because it was really fun playing these games for the first time....in a very long time.