Right now I have reached a cross road which I really can’t tell which way to go. Even with a handful o the problems I have had here and there at my school I really thought not much bad at my school, until recently today. Both my game design and media design instructors have really pushed us to the limit of decision making today with what the media instructor said about the school. Some of the stuff outside the fact the current curriculum which had been rewritten by the two to better fit our (literally) training in not just game design, but the media design industry just to have it taken out without even consulting the two and telling new incoming students that they have programming classes. Then once in telling them that they no longer teach programming, but only game art.
Furthermore, the school seems to care less about the program of choice (viscom, animation, and game art in design all together barely makes up 2% of the schools population out of 2000), by not seeming to try and help their students create connections and get their portfolio’s seen. My instructors said themselves that they know many people in the media industry and has multiple times got many game designers and 3-d artist to agree to come and visit the school to speak with the students; but the school refused to pay when most only asked for was food, hotel and travel expense. I mean ok I could understand if it was a small community college or something, but when the freaking tuition is around 70k and even more for some of use then there just isn’t an excuse… I am currently thinking about trying to transfer to somewhere like scad, or change my major to illustration design in genera; which I wonder how they have been fucked with. So do you think it would be worth it to stick around, change the major, or try and transfer to somewhere else like scad or even devry?
