There's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch, the joy of collecting yet another Pidgey so you can finally evolve that Pidgeotto. Love it or hate it, Pokémon Go took the world by storm this week, to the point that servers were almost consistently down for the first two days after its release due to heavy traffic. Players, fighting dutifully for their teams; Instinct, Mystic, and Valor, have immersed themselves in the augmented reality of real-time Pokémon training, with predominantly positive reviews. The app, free on Apple and Android, has effectively revolutionized mobile gaming, as well as the greenhorn trainers whose eyes are glued to their phones.

The benefits of Pokémon Go are seemingly endless. Its immense popularity among millennials has lead to an apparent camaraderie within the generation who remembered the original Gameboy games and trading cards as integral parts of their childhoods. All together, they are recapturing their childhoods with every new entry in the Pokédex, and it could not be more thrilling.

Additionally, the GPS feature included with the app forces users (gently, of course), to get out of their own backyards and to explore in their hunt for Pokémon. This is especially true for those who solely seek to discover all Pokémon that the game has to offer (currently standing around 150, evolutions included). They find, as many do, that several types of Pokémon can only be found under certain conditions, such as that water types are most prominent in rain, or fire types are found near gas stations. But even with this, it's required to travel further than one's own neighborhood to truly "catch 'em all." Pokémon found in one town can be entirely different from another, with a few exceptions.

All this means that Pokémon Go wants its users to explore, to be tourists in their own towns and cities, visit the sights (which are commonly labeled as Pokéstops), and to be adventurous with when and where they search.

Many have reported that this sort of reward-based coaxing has actually improved their mental health by forcing them to get out of their house and socialize to reap the rewards of a new Pokémon.

Now, college campuses are full of students glued to their phones, but with a different, more fun and competitive atmosphere. Across quads, shouts of "What team are you on?" and "There's a Venusaur over here!" replace antisocial silence as students become one team, though divided, all working together towards a common goal.

Complaints against the game are few and far between, save a few friendships fractured by team loyalties. Fighting to overtake a gym can bring people together, though, and spats are all in good fun.

Pokémon Go, apart from revolutionizing mobile gaming and making augmented reality much more accessible for the everyday millennial, has undoubtedly changed this millennial generation, at least for the duration of the game's popularity. No longer are we sedentary, narcissistic, and depressed, but we are excited about life, active in our own world, explorers in our own backyard, and part of one team, trying together to "catch 'em all." And that calls for a celebration.