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Max Jefferson
27-02-04, 22:57
Hey, anyone else doing a university course at the moment? Would be interesting to see what my fellow NC'ers plan on doing career-wise :)
I'm doing a Games Computing course at Lincoln University, UK...
covering all aspects of game development, from 3D modelling and 2D animation, to Engine Programming and Project Management.
I'm in the second semester of my first year, and it's been a blast so far, my assignments are actually quite fun :) And we have a "geek lab" which is open from 8:30am to midnight every day and is full of fellow gamers and plenty of multiplayer action.
Anyway, if you're doing a course, post it and let us all know :)
debt, i think thats what we all study :)
multimedia really
Max Jefferson
27-02-04, 23:09
debt, i think thats what we all studyOverdraft, where would we be without it? :)
Originally posted by Max Jefferson
Overdraft, where would we be without it? :)
hungry and sober
Originally posted by Max Jefferson
Hey, anyone else doing a university course at the moment? Would be interesting to see what my fellow NC'ers plan on doing career-wise :)
I'm doing a Games Computing course at Lincoln University, UK...
covering all aspects of game development, from 3D modelling and 2D animation, to Engine Programming and Project Management.
I'm in the second semester of my first year, and it's been a blast so far, my assignments are actually quite fun :) And we have a "geek lab" which is open from 8:30am to midnight every day and is full of fellow gamers and plenty of multiplayer action.
Anyway, if you're doing a course, post it and let us all know :)
Hey, how do I get into that? Sounds right up my alley. Better than working a crap job and just plain hating it.
P.S. I did history at the University of Oslo (Norway), now there´s something about as boring as it gets, and I like history.
Max Jefferson
27-02-04, 23:18
hungry and soberTell me about it :)
Then again, it seems my diet consists mainly of alchohol and pop tarts (yes, they are sold in the UK, stop by your local Morrisons) at the moment. In fact, I'm preparing myself for my night out with friends with some Fink Brau (check your local Lydl's) as we speak... *hic*
Dribble Joy
27-02-04, 23:19
Mechanical Engineering - Brunel Uni.
ex-machina
27-02-04, 23:20
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design then either Graphic Design or Interaction Design at Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication in Bromley.
Max Jefferson
27-02-04, 23:32
Hey, how do I get into that? Sounds right up my alley. Better than working a crap job and just plain hating it.
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/
It's a good course, and a good city...
The A level grades weren't too strenuous if I remember right (Fink is hoarding my memory). Do you have your A level grades with you? It's worth a look.
I'm liking university :) the freedom of moving from home to your own place is great :)
EDIT: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/courses/comp-gamesi-mvr/entry.shtm - entry requirements, if you're really interested :)
Psyco Groupie
27-02-04, 23:37
Computing with Artificial Inteligence @ University of Central England in Birmingham
tis pretty fun, altho first year isnt as specialist as second and 3rd so it should be even more fun next year .. plus I can finally play cron cos im getting outa these poxy halls and inot a house :)
Max Jefferson
27-02-04, 23:40
Originally posted by Psyco Groupie
Computing with Artificial Inteligence @ University of Central England in Birmingham
tis pretty fun, altho first year isnt as specialist as second and 3rd so it should be even more fun next year .. plus I can finally play cron cos im getting outa these poxy halls and inot a house :) I was lucky enough to be too late to get into the halls... so I got into a last minute house with 2 Swedish girls and French girl... could be worse :D
Plus, I've scored 1Mb Cable. :)
Dribble Joy
27-02-04, 23:43
The first year of Uni, is one of the best of your life.
It tends to go down hill once you remember you can't get pissed every night, and the work load increases.
Psyco Groupie
27-02-04, 23:44
My 'new' house is not only about 100 meters from my lectures but its about 50 meters from the cable exchange :eek: theres gonna be 6 of us sharing the net so we'll get 1 or 2 mbit :D
In my 'flat' in the halls we've got a norweigen girl, shes pretty cool :P
*edit I realised that after the first fortnight DJ, I dont enjoy getting 'pissed' really often and I spend ages on my work so im ready for my second year :P
Max Jefferson
27-02-04, 23:48
Originally posted by Psyco Groupie
My 'new' house is not only about 100 meters from my lectures but its about 50 meters from the cable exchange :eek: theres gonna be 6 of us sharing the net so we'll get 1 or 2 mbit :D
In my 'flat' in the halls we've got a norweigen girl, shes pretty cool :P Cool :)
I'm sorta glad I didn't get into halls, they feel a bit too much like a youth hostel to me :( I think I'm gonna stay in my house till I graduate hopefully :)
Anyway, I gotta leave now, meeting a friend before I go out... keep posting :)
Bye!
How much will you all be planning on making after you complete the course for all your job types..?
I'm in my last year at UMBC, (Maryland, USA) National Guard payed for it, dunno what I'll be doing yet, but my degrees will be in network engineering and computer sciences.
Dribble Joy
27-02-04, 23:57
I will be making however much a 2nd lieutenant in the british army makes.
Originally posted by Psyco Groupie
Computing with Artificial Inteligence @ University of Central England in Birmingham
I will be likely going there next year, whats the Uni like? I will be going down for an open/invatation day soon but it would be nice to see a students view of the place. :p
I will be doing Accounting & Something (still deciding)
Fire Technology & Administration w/ Certificate program in Paramedicine.
Fun fun.
Originally posted by Dribble Joy
I will be making however much a 2nd lieutenant in the british army makes.
http://www.armedforces.co.uk/army/listings/l0104.html
Not that bad.
Originally posted by subsys
multimedia really
Im doing multimedia :)
2nd Year. Sunderland University
Business and Computing course :D
Yours sound real nice max, 3D stuff etc, wouldnt mind looking at it myself ;)
Final year Computer-Aided Chemistry @ University of Surrey, Guildford.
It's about 70% chemistry and the rest is C++ programming, molecular modelling, artificial intelligence and cheminformatics.
I have 4 weeks left to write my dissertation on using OpenGL to create ractions in 3D :eek:
I'm doing a Games Computing course at Lincoln University, UK...
Same i am in the 3rd year of Games Computing at Lincoln unie. But at the hull campus.
Neocrack ruined it all....
Well i got a last chance coming up, but chances i make it are rather small. :mad:
Psyco Groupie
28-02-04, 00:40
Originally posted by Genty
I will be likely going there next year, whats the Uni like? I will be going down for an open/invatation day soon but it would be nice to see a students view of the place. :p
I will be doing Accounting & Something (still deciding)
Im at Perry Barr campus @ UCE, tis a nice place, perry barr has the biggest library + union bar + a pub called 'hare of the dog' .. what more could you want ? :P
btw if you at perry barr oscot gardens is where its at (lol) altho the net is controlled by a ************ http proxy so no cron :) (part from dialup)
I'll be in my house by then so theres a chance you could come and LAN providing your not insane or something
whens your open day ?!
chemical engineering 4th year at univ cali berk (UCB)
going to grad school too...
BSc Physiology & Pharmacology
University of Westminster 1st year
wanna move on 2 Pharmacy after the 3 years are up
Hmm, might take that course, I live in lincoln, my mum works at the uni, and i get out of school in 4 years, lol :D
Originally posted by Ormy
Hmm, might take that course, I live in lincoln, my mum works at the uni, and i get out of school in 4 years, lol :D
Same... so long to get to uni :(
/Me ticks days off on calendar
:(
Psyco Groupie
28-02-04, 02:42
heh ... I didnt really think of uni till a levels, and then I didnt really take it seriously .. defereing after my a levels and taking a year out ... now REAL work really got my mind on the job :)
I start Uni in September 04, as a mature student.
Im studying 2 BsC hons degrees.
Computer Programming (4 years, full time)
Modern Philosophy (5 years, part time)
Not sure where at yet - last year i was accepted into Durham + 3 more (Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle).
I think im gonna stay in sheffield - gotta love home :D
Only reason i didnt go sooner, was that i wanted to buy a house for my fiancee - and get some money saved. :p
Max Jefferson
28-02-04, 04:58
Man, mosh pits give you bruises...
Good to see all the posts :) Axion, good to hear of a fellow student, how's the third year treating you?
What with this whole top-up fee thing supposedly kicking in in a year or two, I guess the value of degrees is gonna rocket a bit :)
@ Sanch0s: I never really decided to try to get into the games industry for the money, it's more about getting a job I'd really enjoy that made me wanna join the course. Never the less, from what I've seen in various computing journals, a games designer can make up to £60k a year in a good position... bonus I guess :)
Drib, engineering at bruned :eek: wow... you wanna do that sorta stuff in the army? otherwise arent there military alternatives to university? Sandhurst?
edit: forgot to say :p im going to sussex to read politics in sept 05 :D should be hectic, i know loads of people there.. figured i'd go to a uni i'd enjoy rather than choose one with an established name that none of my mates are going to...
Originally posted by Max Jefferson
Man, mosh pits give you bruises...
Good to see all the posts :) Axion, good to hear of a fellow student, how's the third year treating you?
It's alot of hardwork and the Dissertation part is evil, but we are finaly getting a chance to make a computer game an Open GL verson of Air Hockey. Also we are organizing paintball for about april both campus are invited you should come along.
Dribble Joy
28-02-04, 13:48
Originally posted by Rieper
Drib, engineering at bruned :eek: wow... you wanna do that sorta stuff in the army? otherwise arent there military alternatives to university? Sandhurst?
I am hoping to join R.E.M.E. (http://usite.army.mod.uk/REME/index.htm)
//edit hehehe ph34r the shitty flash vid :p.
Originally posted by Max Jefferson
Man, mosh pits give you bruises...
but there good bruises :)
thursday nights in aberdeen theres a night called cadged, neocron and mosh pits in cadges, thats what i live for
Psyco Groupie
28-02-04, 14:43
lmao
Theres a dodgy old club that plays decent music in Brum called 'snobs' of all things :D
Max Jefferson
28-02-04, 15:12
Originally posted by Axion
It's alot of hardwork and the Dissertation part is evil, but we are finaly getting a chance to make a computer game an Open GL verson of Air Hockey. Also we are organizing paintball for about april both campus are invited you should come along. Paintball? Excellent :) Where's the field? A friend told me that the Hull students did a bit a paintball now and then, but never got around to finding out where :)
I think the first year programming assignments have changed, I know the second years did a slot machine game for theirs last year, but we get to do a text based adventure this year... should be fun :)
but there good bruises :) Yeah, its a blast... especially when you get a good pit with proper pit-iquette, so when someone goes down, everyone helps them back up :) As opposed to the lamers around the edge who don't even dance, they just push people back into the pit when they're trying to get out after having the wind knocked out of them. But's it's all good :)
Originally posted by Max Jefferson
Yeah, its a blast... especially when you get a good pit with proper pit-iquette, so when someone goes down, everyone helps them back up :) As opposed to the lamers around the edge who don't even dance, they just push people back into the pit when they're trying to get out after having the wind knocked out of them. But's it's all good :)
best way to deal with them is to dive at them sholder first, best case senario you shoulder/elbow them in the face, worst case senario they step back and you catch them in the chest and knock them over. Its win win :) (unless the bouncers see you of course)
Max Jefferson
28-02-04, 16:32
Originally posted by subsys
best way to deal with them is to dive at them sholder first, best case senario you shoulder/elbow them in the face, worst case senario they step back and you catch them in the chest and knock them over. Its win win :) (unless the bouncers see you of course) But the pit is about love and happyness, with everyone peacefully co-existing and getting along, and getting beer spilt over the back of there heads.
Game design and programming, 3 years. Mostly design tho, alot
of script writing, project management, balance, what makes
game fun, computer-human interface, idea development,
etc. We have an "advisory board" made up of people from all the
big game companies and some publishers here in sweden that
help making sure that the classes are meaningful and that we
have the skills to work as game developers when we're done,
they also draft alot of people from here. They come here every
now and then and hold lectures or just look at our projects etc.
Pretty hard to get in, here in sweden the grades/eta are on a
scale from 0.0 to 2.0, to get in you need 1.8, same as the guys
that study to become doctors... its the best school for game
development in sweden tho. Very fun and rewarding.
funkeymonkey
28-02-04, 17:34
Originally posted by L0KI
Not sure where at yet - last year i was accepted into Durham + 3 more (Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle).
I think im gonna stay in sheffield - gotta love home :D
Thats where i am ;) Im doing an fdsc (2 year course, its the new name for hnd) in networking at hallam.
Are u going to hallam or the proper uni? :lol:
Where do u go on nights out? I usually end up at corporation after drinking myself stupid in the graduate and the old monk.
Originally posted by Max Jefferson
But the pit is about love and happyness, with everyone peacefully co-existing and getting along, and getting beer spilt over the back of there heads.
wow man thats deep, not usually my first thought when getting punched, kicked and shoved about :)
currently at my local community college getting my general ed out of the way. Then i'll be transfering to UCSD (University of California San Diego) to study Business and Networking/Computer Science, so i can open up my own business some day :)
Originally posted by Ormy
Hmm, might take that course, I live in lincoln, my mum works at the uni, and i get out of school in 4 years, lol :D
wat course?
Max Jefferson
28-02-04, 23:39
Originally posted by Dont Mess
wat course? http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/courses/comp-gamesi-mvr/thecourse.shtm
Originally posted by Psyco Groupie
I'll be in my house by then so theres a chance you could come and LAN providing your not insane or something
whens your open day ?!
Nope, don't think i am insane...:D
Open day is next saturday. Have to get a bloody early train which should be nice.........
james_finn
28-02-04, 23:52
Well I'm at Salford Uni, studying a MPhys in Physics and Space Technology!
At the moment we have lectures from the guy whose trying to put a civilian man in space from the UK (all part of a competition) hes called steve bennett and is part of the starchaser project! Now thats pretty cool!
Delphi
Psyco Groupie
28-02-04, 23:55
Originally posted by Genty
Nope, don't think i am insane...:D
Open day is next saturday. Have to get a bloody early train which should be nice.........
You going to Perry Barr campus ?
Originally posted by Psyco Groupie
You going to Perry Barr campus ?
Don't remember, will look at the info again closer to the time.
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