Video games can shoot holes in GPA

First-year students whose roommates brought a video game player to college studied 40 minutes less each day on average, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Those 40 minutes of lost study time translated into first-semester grades that were 0.241 points lower on the 4.0 grade scale. Read more about this study, one of the first to link study time to academic performance, in this article from USA Today.