The company I work for hires candidates with no experience all the time (and they've turned into some of our highest performers). However, it's all about the interview in those cases. If you have no work experience, the interview becomes about gauging your passion for IT. We do not have the budget to train every new hire on every technology we use - besides, most "professional" training we've brought in is pretty much worthless in the long run. Instead, we just purchased a corporate subscription to Safari Books - you're basically expected to learn the technologies on the job, leveraging online resources and the more experienced developers to round out your understanding. If you can't show an interest in programming outside of what you had to do for school, you're not going to get hired.

The other thing I'd offer as advice is that I never get entry level resumes from HR. They just don't pass them along - I don't even see the applications. All of our entry level folks came from IT staffing firms - it's obviously not ideal to be working a short term contract, but you've got to get your foot in the door somehow, and they do have the appropriate connections to find you a place (and they're motivated to, since they're going to get a cut of your rate).

Entry level candidates are a mine field for IT departments, but there are still people out there willing to take a chance on you if you give them a reason to.

it was found that the longer people spent playing video games, the less activity they showed in the prefrontal region of their brains, which governs emotion and creativity.

I'm confused about this. I would think that less activity in the sections of the brain that govern emotions would lead to apathy, not to a shorter temper or anger.

The only issue I take is with the decrease in creativity. There are several games (MUCKS/MUDS come to mind) that encourage creativity in the form of building or roleplay. If you're not creative, there is no way you can pretend to be something that you're not.

Jumping around a bit more... the quote states that the decrease in activity was most readily seen in people that game a lot. I ask you this... wouldn't reading do the same thing to you? If came home and read all day, it would most likely affect your social skills and decrease your overall creativity as well.