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[omgnoseat]

Studying in the US sounds terrible. We pay only €1600 (about $2200 dollars) a year. The government also gifts from €90 to €300 euros each month dependant on your social status (living at home, on your own etc). We also get free public transport during the weekdays.
You have to make it in at least 6 years though (the course itself is 4 years), or you have to pay everything back.

Anyway, I'm almost graduating in Interactive Media and we haven't done anything game wise. We have handled alot of Human Computer Interaction stuff which comes in pretty damn handy.

[BlueSweatshirt]

High-bracket education in the US can be up to about $50k per year.
Mid-bracket education is about half that per year.

 

[Fallsburg]

Mathematician by training, research analyst by trade.

[todd]

I dropped out of high school, got my equivalency certificate, and worked at a lot. I was extremely fortunate to have gotten picked up by my friend's family business. After 3 years of cleaning the office and running errands, I got a promoted to a managerial position doing receivables/payables about a month ago. I'm pretty content right now.

[Sakar]

I'm a junior in high school... Don't know what I'm going to do after school... I'd like to start a game studio but I think i better get a real job.

I'm with you on that Shelby. My friend wanted to have me and him rent an apartment and go to Devry in Phoenix for game programming or some shit. Unless I find something better, I just might do that

[John Sandoval]

i have heard bad, bad things about devry

[Morroque]

communication studies

Oh wow. Given the number of engineers here, I thought I would've been the only one.

My current student major is a dual between communication studies and computer science. Unfortunately, the majority of actual school work I've done has been in linear media like video and audio recording. Gaming has been an entirely independent study.

Say... Does/did your university/college have that exact same split between the theoretical studies and the applied courses in media production? It seemed like a rather unique thing at first, offering a wonderful smorgasbord of different classes, but now all the media literacy professors have moved into political science and all the media professors are going into visual art or this newfangled "digital journalism" program. ("Professional bloggers," anyone?)

Universities are so good at taking different things and putting them in different cupboards. I get the feeling that communication studies won't even exist anymore due to all the different things inside it going in different directions. MIT calls it "comparative media studies" now, but somehow that doesn't have the same charm.

[Theta]

Mathematics.  Pure mathematics.

[C.D Buckmaster]

IT degree student.

IT degrees are pretty flexible at my Uni, so I've had fun poking around in different subjects.

[SundownKid]

communication studies

Oh wow. Given the number of engineers here, I thought I would've been the only one.

Nope, I'm that major as well. I eventually regretted it since a lot of stuff I did was in antique video production and film, which I am not very interested in (doing, not the actual art form). I would probably just have done business instead if I could redo it, since my campus didn't/doesn't really have any "new media" classes.

Studying game design would probably make me go insane. I tend to be a lot more conducive to self study in that regard.

[forwardresent]

General superhero stuff / Games Design Student at Leeds Metropolitan University

[thatredant]

13 year old stuck in school with mainly idiots. 

[Morroque]

communication studies

Oh wow. Given the number of engineers here, I thought I would've been the only one.

Nope, I'm that major as well. I eventually regretted it since a lot of stuff I did was in antique video production and film, which I am not very interested in (doing, not the actual art form). I would probably just have done business instead if I could redo it, since my campus didn't/doesn't really have any "new media" classes.

Studying game design would probably make me go insane. I tend to be a lot more conducive to self study in that regard.

Haha, yeah. I was fortunate to have my introduction to video work be done mostly using digital JVC cameras sent to SD cards and then edited on Final Cut Pro. I absolutely loved it. However, when the more "advanced" classes required I use a bolex camera with 16mm film stock, it kind of lost me and I couldn't maintain interest in the subject.

For the record, I was able to get my hands on a RED camera for an exceedingly brief period of time, however given how the thing is so darn heavy and censor on it captures image data in such a raw format, using it is probably more like a directly digital version of "film" rather than plain ol' video in terms of actual use and setup. Still, the fact that we had to work with celluloid so much didn't leave me feeling terribly happy with the results I got -- especially for its cost per foot.

On that second thought, MIT's Open Course Ware actually has a lot of audio lectures in game design. Sadly, while their discussions include video games a lot, the majority of their work remains in board games. It's not quite as insanity-prone as it suggests, but then again it is only one course and not an entire curriculum.

[Bones]

I'm taking a Bachelor of Fuck All (Fine Arts) in Media Arts & Digital Technologies.
Whatever the fuck that means.  

I've taken courses in Illustration, Painting, Sound, Animation, Video editing and a tiny bit of Programming.
Lately I've been trying to get a job as an animation instructor.

[sigfarter]

I've been working graveyard shifts at a gas station for a long time. But it is ok because I bring my computer and make games.