thinking of college...

[Thesexpixel]

Im thinking of enrolling into digipen institute of technology after highschool. if you dont know who they are, theyre the #1 college for video games; design, code, etc.Yes, i know, its a bit early, i have like 2 years left before i graduate, but I want to know...

is it hard to get into a school like that?

what classes should i take?

[Shauna]

Lame.

Join Harvard and become an instant upstart douche bag.

[Cootie]

At 10/22/10 11:08 PM, Shauna wrote: Join Harvard and become an instant upstart douche bag.

Wanting the finest education makes you a douche?

[Sekhem]

At 10/22/10 11:07 PM, Thesexpixel wrote: is it hard to get into a school like that?

not if you do well in school

study hard and stay off ng

[Thesexpixel]

At 10/22/10 11:08 PM, Shauna wrote: Lame.

Join Harvard and become an instant upstart douche bag.

naah, though they did send me an application. i wanna follow my dream! *insert shitty highschool musical song here*

[Laughingbox]

At 10/22/10 11:07 PM, Thesexpixel wrote: theyre the #1 college for video games; design, code, etc.

is it hard to get into a school like that?

You've heard of this college more than most of us. I think you know the answer...

what classes should i take?

Classes? I don't know, AP and other advanced classes? What about extracurriculars? Publications? Something that makes you stand out a bit more from the average Joe?

[Sekhem]

harvard doesn't send applications

nice try though

[Thesexpixel]

is it hard to get into a school like that?

You've heard of this college more than most of us. I think you know the answer...

what classes should i take?

Classes? I don't know, AP and other advanced classes? What about extracurriculars? Publications? Something that makes you stand out a bit more from the average Joe?

well, i was hoping there was someone on NG who goes, or knows someone who went or goes to that school.

i dont know what extracurricular activities to take. i kind of have a problem of being extremely indecisive. It took me 2 years to come up with digipen, and i really would like someones opinion.

[Thesexpixel]

At 10/22/10 11:11 PM, Sekhem wrote: harvard doesn't send applications

nice try though

its hard trying to look smart.

[OneLifeLeft]

oppurtunity to go to that college could be a really good idea you cant miss out onn.!

[Deadchick]

If you have money, I am sure it will be easy to enroll, just like an art college.

[Shauna]

At 10/22/10 11:09 PM, Cootie wrote:

Wanting the finest education makes you a douche?

They don't teach anything an ordinary college can't. Harvard just looks good on your resume.

[Thesexpixel]

At 10/22/10 11:25 PM, Deadchick wrote: If you have money, I am sure it will be easy to enroll, just like an art college.

yeah, i hear art colleges are really easy to get into (thats what she said), but then again, Digipen includes programming and level design. so thats like a whole other dimension of things man! maaaan.

[Cootie]

At 10/22/10 11:45 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 10/22/10 11:09 PM, Cootie wrote:

Wanting the finest education makes you a douche?

They don't teach anything an ordinary college can't. Harvard just looks good on your resume.

Having a good looking resume makes you a douche?

At 10/22/10 11:10 PM, Twilight wrote:

Go look at the ratings for Harvard compared to cheaper schools. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, they were proven to teach you shit NO ONE needs to know.

Having addition albeit unimportant knowledge makes you a douche?

[GoryBlizzard]

Make no mistake: college is expensive and hard as fuck, both academically and financially. You will likely find yourself in thousands of dollars of student loan debt and even under the best circumstances, that debt won't be completely paid off for many years. Unless you plan on using college as a gateway for grad school, law school, med school or any other type of professional school...think again.

Personally, in retrospect, I wish I had just dived straight into the workforce after high school. Right now I'm a math major hoping to eventually become a math teacher, but that's looking more and more unlikely each day. I seriously might just give up soon.

Also, be cognizant of sobering statistics like this. Many people are just better off avoiding college to begin with.

[Rage]

I personally would go to a more traditional school (Although this is a hotly debated topic). Digipen isn't even regionally accredited. What happens if your "game degree" can't get you a job in the very-competitive and often heartless game industry? Well, you're in trouble for starters. If you get a well-rounded education in, say, Computer Science, you'll still be able to make games. You'll be enabled to do other things too, if needed.

[Shauna]

At 10/22/10 11:51 PM, Cootie wrote:

Having addition albeit unimportant knowledge makes you a douche?

Have you ever been on their campus? They're all douche bags.

[Cootie]

At 10/23/10 12:34 AM, Shauna wrote:

At 10/22/10 11:51 PM, Cootie wrote:

Having addition albeit unimportant knowledge makes you a douche?

Have you ever been on their campus? They're all douche bags.

I haven't. But, I have seen movies and most of the Harvard guys are portrayed as dickheads.

[Gobblemeister]

I used to want to go to Brown but to be honest, not only are my grades far too low for something like that, but I don't even plan to pursue that kind of career.

I don't even know what I want to do in my life, but whatever it is, I want to be good at it.

So do what you're good at, follow a path that, although difficult, will provide more security in the long run,

[Mason]

It's very hard, study you're ass off then go to a Community college or trade school first. they won't accept you right out of high school

[RubberTrucky]

Ugh, college for video games, coding and such is a quite a waste. It's like taking accounting because you like math.

In the end, you don't know how stuff works, but you just know how to code.

[RubberTrucky]

At 10/23/10 05:05 AM, RubberTrucky wrote:
In the end, you don't know how stuff works, but you just know how to code.

Seriously, I took a course introduction to programming in college science major and I saw in 2 weeks what my brother (in programming major) saw in 1 whole year and knew more about it.

[RubberTrucky]

At 10/23/10 05:18 AM, MuyBurrito wrote: RubTruck, I'm curious. I remember reading that you have a degree. What do you do?

I have a physics degree and a maths degree and am currently working on maths as a Ph.D. In the first year at the uni, I've been thought about object oriented programming and algorithms in Java. My brother, who's majoring in programming didn't know most of the things about those subject whereas everything he told he'd been thaught was something I had already seen in the early stages of the course.

[Mason]

At 10/23/10 05:26 AM, RubberTrucky wrote:
I have a physics degree and a maths degree and am currently working on maths as a Ph.D. In the first year at the uni, I've been thought about object oriented programming and algorithms in Java.

I now feel inferior with my 1st semester of broadcast journalism...

[Flak]

Okay, stop and think here for a minute.
You want to go to a school called DigiPen.

Go with Rage's suggestion.

[Mason]

At 10/23/10 12:43 AM, MuyBurrito wrote:

At 10/22/10 11:45 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 10/22/10 11:09 PM, Cootie wrote:

Wanting the finest education makes you a douche?

They don't teach anything an ordinary college can't. Harvard just looks good on your resume.

The curriculum is the same, the ideas are not. Ivy League Students are pioneers, normal college students are Sexy Ego-Fond Automatons.

Harvard is a good law school but everyone thinks it's a good well rounded college which it isn't.

Don't call me an automaton sir.

[RubberTrucky]

At 10/23/10 06:41 AM, MuyBurrito wrote: What are you going to do to feed your family?

The pay is pretty nice at the moment. After that, I am not sure.

Do you know what your brother is planning?

Finally acing his thesis and become website programmer or something...

[Thesexpixel]

How old are you/your brother/your youngest child/how do you make moneys?

whoa this is getting way off topic!

[Thesexpixel]

At 10/29/10 10:50 PM, MuyBurrito wrote: Original topic was stupid. Digipen is not a good school, it's an accredited startup. If you want to do well, you've got to go to a real school which offers a degree in game design.

how do you know that? How can you say that? I doubt you went there, and actually experienced the school! You're about informed about Digipen as Fox News is on video games. Ok, that went a little too far.

Also, I have little prior programming knowledge other than Actionscript and preliminary C and C++. is it possible to make it through the game design class with that much prior programming knowledge?

[Bolo]

At 10/30/10 06:12 PM, Thesexpixel wrote: how do you know that? How can you say that? I doubt you went there, and actually experienced the school! You're about informed about Digipen as Fox News is on video games. Ok, that went a little too far.

Digipen is a for-profit institution. Do you really feel comfortable attending a school where the main objective of the administration is not to educate you but to make money off of you? They have no mandate to provide you with an education or a base of knowledge that is practical; For-profit colleges have a recruitment quota and will do anything to recruit you including keeping low academic standards for recruitment. The University of Phoenix has been under investigation, and many of these institutions are regularly sued by individuals who have reported that after graduating, their diplomas were essentially worthless and their skill set extremely limited.

Furthermore, Digipen requires students to sign over ownership of all projects created at the university in order to make a larger profit margin for itself (marketing and using the creations of students to suit its own profit-motivated instincts instead of providing those students with the credit they deserve as originators of the project http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/38 49/controversy_in_the_classroom_.php). Overall, I definitely would avoid for-profit universities, and stick to much more widely-recognized not-for-profit colleges, either public or private; don't get suckered in by commercials and recruitment efforts because for-profit colleges blow, bro.