07.29.06
Re-engaging Education
I got admitted into Copenhagen University yesterday. I can’t say it came as a surprise, but if I say it didn’t, that’ll make me look like an arrogant bastard, so I’ll just not say anything. It’s the universal solution.
I’ll be studying Film and Media Studies under the Faculty of Humanities, which is apparently the 18th best Faculty of Humanities in the world? I guess I should be impressed by that. I mean it doesn’t quite have the same ring as “the best faculty in the world” or even “second best” or “third best”, but I suppose there are a lot of such faculties in the whole world. Of course that won’t help me a lot if I turn out to suck. I’m slightly concerned about two things:
Firstly, a brief examination of the schedule for the autumn semester of 2006 reveals only one course related to video games, and that’s only available if you already have a Bachelor. I’ve heard you can take courses from other institutes if you can argue for their relevance to your own education (which should be fairly easy if they’re about game design), but it depends on how open your own institute is to that kind of stuff. Still though, the courses available to first-year students look interesting enough.
Secondly, I’ll still be working when my education starts in September. Not full time of course, I’m being re-hired for 15 hours per week, but I may still be pretty busy as I’ve heard the first year of uni has a lot of compulsory scheduled classes. I also still need to find time to work on TNM, and I have that NWN2 campaign I’m planning with Ruben. All in all, I don’t expect to get much sleep from now on.
The plan is to get a bachelor in Media Studies and then specialize my master’s in Game Design at DADIU (click here for the English page). I do hope I can squeeze as many game-related courses as possible into that bachelor though, or those first three years may end up being just something I have to get over with before I get to the fun part. And that’s kind of a waste of three perfectly good years, eh?
