You know what makes me sick? When the most important thing to a person is feeling better than everybody else. You know what else makes me sick? When under-qualified, amateur journalists use what little power they have to make other people feel like poo.

Your Friday editorial was a bit insulting. Not because you don’t think it’s cool to be interested in video games, but because you basically state that we are crap because we don’t read every book in the library, speak out against the tuition hike or wax political about Ralph Nader.

Yeah, I guess you’re right, maybe we have wasted our lives. But when I manage to peel my eyes from my TV screen and take a look at the world, I hope I don’t ever see any of you at a bar watching television or attending a movie at the Varsity Theater.

Surely, your time would be better spent on more cultural things than the violence- and sex filled cinema.

In fact, I hope to see you all at the library on Saturday night catching up on some Keats or James Joyce.

I waited in line for 10 hours at Target Wednesday night to buy a PS2. I didn’t mind; it was just something I had to do for myself.

It was a lot like the times I’ve waited in line for concert tickets – those times I decided to get crazy and cultural. Maybe you guys can relate since that’s the sort of thing you do all the time.

You’re using stereotypes to classify us. I’ve seen “Jackass,” I use Napster to download music, and I also have a passion for the video game industry.

I guess I’m dumb for doing these things and not giving a damn if you elect tweedle-dee or tweedle-dum.

I guess I sacrifice human contact and imagination because of these feelings; my ex-girlfriend warned me of that. But what can I do? I live life just like any of you, doing what makes me happy.

There’s a growing trend I’ve noticed in the opinion section this year. Both writers for the Daily and students who write letters to the editor are much more interested in attacking people and stirring up trouble than they are in objectively stating their opinions.

I expect this from students writing to the editor because we don’t know any better, but I would hope the editors of the Daily would be more responsible with the power they have been given. You’re not hurting anything but your careers.

I suggest you spend less time at plays, concerts and exhibits, and try attending your journalism classes more often.

Take that for what it’s worth. I’m just an unintelligent, ignorant, video-game-playing, computer science student.

How I managed to find the skills to write this letter is surprising in itself.

Noah BanwarthSeniorComputer science