Soriku said:
How hard was it for you to maintain that 3.9? How often do you study?
Right now my major is still undecided, but at the same time since I listed it as "Business (undecided)" they're still prepping me for a business degree and are organizing the classes I should take in that way. This semester at least I'm taking very general classes, but I don't know how it'll be next semester. And I only get 4 semesters till I have to decide...
Right now the only clubs I'd be seemingly interested in is Anime club and Film club. Might try to join anime club since I like anime. There was an anime club in HS but I never joined. Not sure about Film club though.
Like I said above, they're putting me on a track right now for a degree and I don't want to go far off track so I'll see what I can take. Is an architecture class limited to real-world architecture, or can stuff you learn be applied to games?
The advice you gave about the game stuff is cool, but I don't even play Elder Scrolls or any WRPG. Just JRPGs and I doubt I'd be able to get a job in a Japanese company lol :x In JP game credits I always see non-JP names though and I assume that's all related to localization? Or is there more to it than that?
Also I considered graphic design but I'd have to go the main campus for that. So I opted out...
And, again, I'm not sure how much I'd make even if I got a game industry job. And I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to find anything, or working WAAAY far away (aren't lots of game companies situated in San Francisco? lol). >_<
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As for everyone else, I appreciate the advice. I'll try to get to know my Profs well. Since I'm not going to the main campus the classes will be smaller so that's good. I never planned on skipping classes (never done that before) so I should be OK there.
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Mr Khan said:
Appreciate it while you can, before you get thrust out into the real world to drown.... |
I heard you still haven't looked for a job lol. What did you major in?
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I've been looking, but i'm perpetually screwed by the "experience paradox," whereby you need experience to get experience, and no-one is willing to give you square one. So the double-team raping prevents you from doing anything until you default on your federal student debt and become permanently unhirable.
Oh yeah, that is a point of legitimate advice. Take all the internships and on-campus jobs you can reasonably get. That's really the only thing i would have done different about my college experience, is maybe picked up one more internship than i did (i did one fall of my junior year). And take advantage of any study abroad programs PSU (or PSU affiliates) offer, and gotten a somewhat more relevant on-campus job. The "reasonably" part of that means that yeah, you as a college student need a fair deal of "you time" as well as a fair deal of "social time." Hell, i got to see Harry Potter 7-2 in glorious iMax just from socializing with my RA.
