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My College Experience So Far

Oh, trust me guys, college is a dream. It genuinely is. And guess what? I have a secret to tell. I'm absolutely terrified of getting in trouble. By anyone. Authority? Even worse. And the thing is, for some reason I consider anyone 10 years or so older than me authority. It doesn't matter if you clean shoes for a living. You look older? Authority. I'm afraid of you. Don't raise your voice please. Thanks.

But yeah, I had to mention that because this doesn't happen in college. Nobody yells. Again, I'm sure I mentioned this in previous posts but if you don't have anything to present or you don't do any work, nobody's going to punish you. You're your own motivator and this is absolutely perfect to me because I flourish with self-motivation. I want to be able to do my own thing and hope it gets me good marks. It probably doesn't but I guess I'll see and work on it accordingly.

So, although my course doesn't have a lot of hours per week, that definitely doesn't mean it's not demanding as all hell. The amount of nights I've spent keeled over my laptop or computer trying to fix a bug in my game, or some other seemingly insignificant tiny thing and accidentally break another thing, setting off a little domino effect of bugs I don't know how to fix. Don't press shoot before you move player two, he'll shoot up even though he's facing right- yeah don't talk about it, I tried.

I know I should probably talk about night-life or college-fun-times, but again- I'm a huge hermit so those don't happen too often. I usually spend my free time looking at memes, playing nostalgic flash games or some terrible indie game, or sleeping. That happens a lot. During the day, I drown myself in caffeine and eat way too much sugar. Sometimes I gorge on burritos. College life is good.

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Networking Opportunities

Networking means talking doesn't it? It means talking to older and successful, important people? Nope. I jest. I actually have made efforts to go to events. Cool right? 

There’s this event called DublinBeta coming up on the fifth of December which looks quite cool. A small team of game developers from Pulse College are coming there to get some play-testers and feedback so I might show some support and see what's going on there. 

There's also the 1GAM meetups, but I'm thinking of going to one when I actually have a game to show. My project 'Cyber Battle' is almost done, it just needs another week or two of polishing which is super exciting. Again- it’s not perfect but it’s never really going to be, is it? Finally I can feel confident with trying my hand at making another game without feeling bad for not working on this one more.

I've also looked into a 3D meetup which is on the first of December, but am a bit iffy about that one because it doesn't seem like many people are going and it might end up being a room full of professionals in some hotel and then, well, me. I am pretty interested in 3D modelling though and am capable of using software like Solidworks and SketchUp to make models. Obviously I'm not absolutely amazing at it and definitely don't have the confidence to stand around people who do this for a living. I'll just end up ogling at them I feel. 

Finally- and I'm not sure if this will be a networking opportunity but I definitely want to challenge myself in the Global Game Jam on the 20th of January next year. I'm not one for sleep anyway.