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Ever since I could talk, I don't play games if I can help it. Games just don't attract me at all. It was no different when I played Prisoner's Dilemma. It seems pointless. I cooperated a few rounds and got the same points as Serendip. When I compete with it for once, I would get higher points. However, if I get back to cooperating, it would get the same points as I do again. It is just so random, that I don't really want to think about how it works! Or maybe it's just because I don't like figuring out how to play games in the first place. It seems unattactive to me, and I feel like games are just a waste of time.

A typical prisoner's dilemma in my life would be when I cooperate with a classmate on an exam or school work when we both are actually competing with each other in the class. It is just so frustrating knowing that your "study buddy" is in fact your competitor. When we are working together to help each other, it is just so ill-minded to think that there is a sort of "underground competition" going on behind the working together. I mean, where is the limit? Where do you draw the line to think that, hey, maybe I should stop working with her at some point when she isn't paying attention so that I can get a better grade? Where do you put your comforts and confidence in the other person knowing that s/he might be planning the same strategy as you? It really makes me sick to think about it every time I meet this problem. But then again, c'est la vie, this kind of problem exists in life all the time whether I like it or not, and there really isn't a way out. My best strategy is to just let it go, not think too hard so that I'll be in peace during most of the process, but will think eventually, when the time is right, to win in the end. After all, survival of the fittest requires competition, life is just a game, and whether I like games or not,  there's no where to hide.