Undertaking a bachelors degree in Biological Science, majoring in Zoology and Genetics. I want to be the next David Attenborough.
What is your degree in?
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I did just over a year on a Games Design course, quickly learned that in a creative industry, like games or graphics design, a portfolio is what counts and a degree is basically worthless.
I then asked myself: If no-one will care about my degree, why am I paying £3000 to teach myself about art and games design?
So I quit.
I don't know about other places, but in the UK at least it is far too easy to get a degree. All a degree says is that you bothered to turn up to lectures for three years and are more than ten thousand pounds in debt. There were people on my course, which was an art and computer graphics heavy course, that could barely draw a stickman or operate a mouse. These people were vastly in the majority despite every single one of them having to turn up to an interview and show their work.
Basically noone failed.
Don't get me wrong, there were some real gems amongst them. But employers aren't stupid, they know that the degree itself is no indication of whether they're getting the genius or the dud who just stuck it out long enough to get the qualification. They'll ask for a portfolio and they'll give the job to the best one, degree or no degree.
I basically figured out that I could teach myself everything they had to offer using the internet and some books and set off building a portfolio by myself. I've ended up doing freelance graphics design and illustration and it's not actually going that badly!
If you want to do something creative, and you're thinking about going to university, seriously consider just doing it yourself. Right now. You have a computer, the internet and access to books that don't cost £3000 a year. Teach yourself everything, practice until you're blue in the face and you'll do just as well. Then you can spend your spare time earning money, instead of owing it.
I then asked myself: If no-one will care about my degree, why am I paying £3000 to teach myself about art and games design?
So I quit.
I don't know about other places, but in the UK at least it is far too easy to get a degree. All a degree says is that you bothered to turn up to lectures for three years and are more than ten thousand pounds in debt. There were people on my course, which was an art and computer graphics heavy course, that could barely draw a stickman or operate a mouse. These people were vastly in the majority despite every single one of them having to turn up to an interview and show their work.
Basically noone failed.
Don't get me wrong, there were some real gems amongst them. But employers aren't stupid, they know that the degree itself is no indication of whether they're getting the genius or the dud who just stuck it out long enough to get the qualification. They'll ask for a portfolio and they'll give the job to the best one, degree or no degree.
I basically figured out that I could teach myself everything they had to offer using the internet and some books and set off building a portfolio by myself. I've ended up doing freelance graphics design and illustration and it's not actually going that badly!
If you want to do something creative, and you're thinking about going to university, seriously consider just doing it yourself. Right now. You have a computer, the internet and access to books that don't cost £3000 a year. Teach yourself everything, practice until you're blue in the face and you'll do just as well. Then you can spend your spare time earning money, instead of owing it.
Not working on a degree yet, but going to be working on a BS in Aerospace Engineering, there's gonna be alot of work and sleep deprivation during college from what I've heard about this major and engineering in general, but Im sure an unhealthy overdose of caffeine will help =)
I've gotten my bachelor's degree in Archaeology, and I'm currently working on a master's in Classical Archaeology. Ideally I'd like to be able to get into a Ph.D. program in 2012, and once I get that I'd like to eventually teach at a university and do my own research and digs.
Maybe I'll reply to a thread like this again in 8 years, I'm just finishing a year out of education (which without money or a job is mind numbing like chloroform), and have just been accepted to do a BSc(Hons) in Molecular and Cellular Biology, though I'm still waiting to hear back from Kent about Biological Anthropology, but it seems unlikely I'll choose it even if I get in. I then need to achieve a 2:1 or 1st to continue study to get a MSc in Genomics and Pathways, or go to Kyoto and study Primateology and Wildlife at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto.
I'll get back to you in 8 years.
(The BSc comes with a years work placement so it becomes a 4 year course...)
I'll get back to you in 8 years.
(The BSc comes with a years work placement so it becomes a 4 year course...)
Bachelor's in Computer Science. Started for Masters, but I'm not sure it's what I'd like to be doing. Has always feelt like a waste of time, so I'm now polishing music production skills. Still work as a software engineer/programmer/tester one-man-team, though. Nice to have two possibilities open I must say.
I'm planning to do something scientific. Probably something involving either chemistry or physics, chemical engineering sounds pretty cool. Maybe even a mathematician, I'm finding the trig stuff in my pre-calc class incredibly easy. Alternatively, I could do computer programming. I'd just like to teach myself C++/Java beforehand if I do so.
I have a couple of years to decide though, so I'm not stressing too much.
EDIT: My minor will probably be something totally unrelated unless I need a specific minor for a job I'm looking for. Probably like music related, music theory maybe. If that even qualifies as a minor.
I have a couple of years to decide though, so I'm not stressing too much.
EDIT: My minor will probably be something totally unrelated unless I need a specific minor for a job I'm looking for. Probably like music related, music theory maybe. If that even qualifies as a minor.
I'm currently working on a mass communication degree with a concentration on broadcast and electronic media.
My internship is absolutely awesome right now. I'm a morning radio DJ.
My internship is absolutely awesome right now. I'm a morning radio DJ.