Time for Homework: Where's My Nintendo Switch?

Willa Fogelson grabs her Nintendo Switch most Monday nights, dims the lights, and plays a video game for a few hours. The first-year from Los Angeles has always loved playing and gets to explore a new title each week.

The best part? It’s her homework.

Fogelson is taking an English class being offered for the first time this semester, “English 189v.g: Video Game Storytelling.” About 100 students signed up, a level of interest that surprised the professor, Vidyan Ravinthiran, a poet and author. In hindsight, perhaps it shouldn’t have.

“There are just loads and loads of people playing. It is a really big part of our culture,” Ravinthiran said. “There’s this real excitement about the subject matter. And you can really see that when [students] start discussing it.”

Read more from The Harvard Gazette here.