• Let's Talk College!
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looking at rocks, sounds cool. They are, so, deep. So relaxed. If we only could worry as much as rocks do. Stress related problems would vanish.
Keeping up the retoast to anybody who is utilizing the GI Bill for colleges..
[QUOTE=OBOESHOES;28901457]Try wrestling. If your school has a good wrestling program, wrestling will really prepare you for PT and it will get you into even better shape. EDIT: Huh, optimistic. I guess someone is a basketball player. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] Almost everyone labels wrestling as the homosexual sport at school, I'd have to pass on it.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28911142]Does she like it though[/QUOTE] I figure so, or I'd assume she'd switch majors. I think she might be a freshman though. Long story short, I dunno.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28923793]I figure so, or I'd assume she'd switch majors. I think she might be a freshman though. Long story short, I dunno.[/QUOTE] All I know is that geologists get to work* outside and I want to work* outside *go fishing instead of working
Go to harvard.
Fuck yes, guys, just got pulled out of my first SAT with a 2270. Probably gonna retake to break 2300 anyway, though.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;28923548]Almost everyone labels wrestling as the homosexual sport at school, I'd have to pass on it.[/QUOTE] My school must be weird then. Everyone associates wrestling with being a badass.
I'm on my junior year of High School and am aiming at going to Michigan Tech University. Took the ACT a few weeks ago and people already started receiving their scores back. We'll see how it goes.
Are you able to attend a ROTC at a different campus?
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28938198]Are you able to attend a ROTC at a different campus?[/QUOTE] Many colleges have cross-campus agreements for ROTC, which means that a student can go to a school w/o ROTC and yet still attend ROTC at a nearby campus. Just do a bit of research for your school and whether it has this arrangement.
[QUOTE=JohnnyNapalm007;28865206]They definitely are. The teachers I've had my senior year have really been huge inspirations for me. I can't wait to teach, honestly.[/QUOTE] Best part is that video cinemetography is something you can easily do on the side as a kick ass hobby. Be known as that teacher who does awesome videos of shit. Like my one German teacher in high school who was a DJ at night. He was awesome.
Long story short: 16 year old third world person who wants to go to the US to study Aerospace and preferably somehow stay there, and never go back here, ever (Trying to escape from the dusty towns you see). Every now and then I talk to this lady from the Fulbright foundation that tells me my grades are pretty good :3: but I'm still wondering: - What would be a good university to learn Aerospace, one that isn't Harvard or MIT or Stanford, just in case. - Between UCSD and Berkeley, which one would be better for Aerospace? - How (Is it even possible?) does one get to stay after studying? Would it be better to do Mech. Eng here and get a masters or something in Aerospace in the US, then apply for a job there? EDIT: Also if I get to study Aerospace Eng. I will make all my science threads reality. A gentleman never lies.
[QUOTE=XxTheAvengerxX;28904199]Not in today's competitive college market. Most good universities want at least a 3.2[/QUOTE] Good universities are overrated when most good employers don't care where you graduated from [editline]2nd April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Eudoxia;28940397]Long story short: 16 year old third world person who wants to go to the US to study Aerospace and preferably somehow stay there, and never go back here, ever (Trying to escape from the dusty towns you see). Every now and then I talk to this lady from the Fulbright foundation that tells me my grades are pretty good :3: but I'm still wondering: - What would be a good university to learn Aerospace, one that isn't Harvard or MIT or Stanford, just in case. - Between UCSD and Berkeley, which one would be better for Aerospace? - How (Is it even possible?) does one get to stay after studying? Would it be better to do Mech. Eng here and get a masters or something in Aerospace in the US, then apply for a job there?[/QUOTE] I'd actually recommend going to a country that pays for your education, as American college expenses are hideously expensive. I'm assuming you have plenty of money though if studying abroad at a college in another country (that is also not free and very expensive for the people living in the country alone) is even an option
[QUOTE=Kontradaz;28939163]Many colleges have cross-campus agreements for ROTC, which means that a student can go to a school w/o ROTC and yet still attend ROTC at a nearby campus. Just do a bit of research for your school and whether it has this arrangement.[/QUOTE] Would it be plausible to serve as National Guard for the Freshman year in College and be able to enlist in a ROTC?
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28941069]Would it be plausible to serve as National Guard for the Freshman year in College and be able to enlist in a ROTC?[/QUOTE] You mean like a Reserve officer while at the same time being in ROTC? Or do you mean being in National Guard ROTC only?
[QUOTE=KorJax;28940528]I'd actually recommend going to a country that pays for your education, as American college expenses are hideously expensive. I'm assuming you have plenty of money though if studying abroad at a college in another country (that is also not free and very expensive for the people living in the country alone) is even an option[/QUOTE]As far as I know, most European nations do not cover the university expenses for people from outside the EU, so that might be a problem.
[quote]when most good employers don't care where you graduated from[/quote] What? Please justify that statement? Do you mean if you don't graduate from the best, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's not the worst? [editline]2nd April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Eudoxia;28940397]Long story short: 16 year old third world person who wants to go to the US to study Aerospace [/QUOTE] What third world country?
Hopefully I can get into Berklee College of Music, and I'm taking an AP music theory class next year
[QUOTE=Kontradaz;28941289]You mean like a Reserve officer while at the same time being in ROTC? Or do you mean being in National Guard ROTC only?[/QUOTE] I mean as in enlisting into the NatGuard for my first year of college and then next year you may be able to sign up for the ROTC.
[QUOTE=KorJax;28940528]Good universities are overrated when most good employers don't care where you graduated from [editline]2nd April 2011[/editline] I'd actually recommend going to a country that pays for your education, as American college expenses are hideously expensive. I'm assuming you have plenty of money though if studying abroad at a college in another country (that is also not free and very expensive for the people living in the country alone) is even an option[/QUOTE] Yeah, I was looking at American schools, but I didn't really have that amount of money. Beside school fee, there's cost for food, house and all that. It would of course be really interesting to study there. Hopefully I'll do my masters there :)
Going to Brockenhurst College come September (I already go there on a tutor basis), I've been offered a subsidized Rail pass from Bournemouth (BMH) to Brockenhurst (BCU) for about £800 - terms being mondays-to-fridays only, term time only, no use-as-part-of-journey ability. On the other hand, a fully-blown one year season ticket for the same journey is £1,272 (which I can use at any time + [url=http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/season_tickets/goldcard.html]all the Gold Card shebang[/url]). What do?
[QUOTE=Contag;28944937]What? Please justify that statement? Do you mean if you don't graduate from the best, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's not the worst? [editline]2nd April 2011[/editline] What third world country?[/QUOTE] I'm saying most employers don't really care where you got an education as long as you have one. A handful don't even care about your GPA, it's only noteworthy in their eyes when they scan your resume and see you had a high GPA. Seriously imagine working for an HR department. Employers don't go through their THOUSANDS of resumes and go "Hmmm this one graduated from Berkly, let me search through our list of good colleges and see if it's good enough for us!" They see you have a degree from X college, and mentally think "Good". This is assuming the employer that you looked up really 100% requires a degree anwyays. For those who see a degree as a nice side benefit over a strict requirement, you.... 1. Have 5 years of experience working profesionally in said job already and/or 2. Have a kick-ass portfolio (applies to creative degrees only) ... and you will always get in over the guy who has neither but a degree from a "good school", even if you don't have a degree at all. As a matter of fact heres an article that states that some employers actually avoid people who come from "private elite" schools because they tend to have their head so far up their ass that they are hard to work with, or just are really inexperienced compaired to someone from a normal college: [url]http://community.elearners.com/all_blogs/the_elearners_news_blog/b/elearnersnews/archive/2010/09/13/wsj-report-of-employer-ratings-ranks-state-colleges-above-private-elites.aspx[/url] It's a complete myth that where you graduate from is a key factor in getting a job. For some highly specific jobs (say lawyer) and highly specific employers they might care that you graduated from Ivy league over the guy who graduated from state. But the vast majority couldn't care less. Because in the job world, its what you do with your knowledge not how get it that shows you have the stones to work for a company fresh out of college.
Does anybody have any good suggestions for colleges in the United States with good game design and or animation degrees?
How many people in the video game industry actually majored in a game design related field?
I'm currently studying computer science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I am seriously considering changing majors, because fucking goddamn I'm not very good at maths. The only other thing I'm interested in is journalism though, and the job outlook sucks. :saddowns:
I'm going into Biology/Pre-Med at Transylvania University (Kentucky) come fall. We'll see how it goes.
Comp Sci at Aberystwyth University. I start at the end of September.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;28960885]How many people in the video game industry actually majored in a game design related field?[/QUOTE] People who designed Portal did technically. Game design degrees are a double edge sword. On one hand you are learning stuff that is direct relevance to your degree. On the other hand you tend to miss out on deeper knowledge, have less time to build your portfolio on your own, and/or are not as "well rounded" as self taught standard college students. This is not true all the time for every field, but in my experience and from what I've heard it's generally better to do an art or design degree while pursuing game art related stuff on your own time through mods, indies, etc. than to just do a game dev degree. You also save an assload of money (assuming you aren't going to a private school for the art/design degree). And have a degree that is more applicable outside of game development. Same thing applies to programmers too (getting a CS degree over a game programming one). Plus you'll probably enjoy your time at college a bit more in a normal school over some closed off expensive game design one. If you are dead set on doing one though, have a shit tone of money to throw around and would have the capability to doing your own work on top of an intensive school program's work so your portfolio has a bit more "heart" behind it, then you can't go wrong with Digipen though.
Graduated about a year ago with a two-year Associates degree, because my family isn't filthy rich enough to send me to a real school. I now do the exact job I spent all that time training for, and I make minimum wage at it. Fuck college. My money would have been better spent on blow and hookers.
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