Re: game colleges

["Ben Humphrey" <benjina@mindspring.com>]

Digipen just wants you to have a B and up average, especially in math, and a
desire for games.
You won't make it through the college if you don't.  it's too intense.  You
really have to love this stuff.

I had D's in math through high school, but got a b in my first year of
college, they just made me take a supplementary exam
that had 10 questions.

Ben Humphrey
Game Programmer
WebHost of www.GameTutorials.com
benh@humongous.com
benjina@mindspring.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Wing Wong <buyer1342@saladlove.com>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: game colleges


> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Tim Elder wrote:
>
> > Would the Navy pay for a Game Programming major???  That would be
awefully nice of them.
> > Tim
> > Open Access Suite Supervisor
>
> I think the deal is that you serve and train with them for a given amount
> of time. Then you serve as researves or active for a number of years.
> During that time, they will "pay" for your college education. What they
> mention in finer print is that your time spent in training and in
> post-training and misc-work is a "job" which earns you an hourly wage.
>
> That wage is the "pay" they will give you for your college education. I
> think the average amount is somewhere between $60,000 - $75,000. (I might
> be wrong since these numbers are a bit old). But that, if you take into
> account the amount of time they want you to follow-up serve, is
> essentially a $20,000/year job rate pay or less. Since the amount of time
> you serve afterwards is around 2years+, depending on your choice.
>
> But they do train you, educate you in military concepts, and prepare you
> for war mentally, emotionally, physically, and chemically.
>
> Personally, I think getting a part time tech job while doing your core
> requirements at a junior or city college would be better in terms of
> pay/experience/education.
>
> Unless they are teaching the soldiers about graphics art design, layout or
> operating systems operation and administration in the army these days.
>
> Doesn't FullSail and Digipen both require a strong portfolio and/or
> examples of high interest and skill before allowing people admittance to
> their programs? Time spent at a college and a part time job doing graphics
> design will work better towards work experience, salary history, and
> art/software skills than a military/naval/etc internship.
>
> Wing.
>
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