Updates and random stuff

So tomorrow is orientation, my class will get there at 8:30am, we will get our game developing laptops, and I'm sure there will be tons off hoopla with prizes, live shows, gun shows, no shows, mimes, guys juggling flaming torches, students bursting into spontaneous song and dance, you know the usual stuff.

Anyhow, I'm excited to get this thing started, time just seems to be crawling by the closer I get to the start date.

I found Tuesday that there will be at most 14 people in my game dev class. This is a small class by normal standards but the assistant instructor said that one year they had just two people in a single class. He also said that the class format usually has 4 hours of lecture, then 4 hours of doing exercises on what the lecture covered with instructors present to help.

I didn't really get to meet anyone but they looked to mostly be older, around my age I think. The one guy I did talk to, cause we both finished the test at the same time, was fresh out of high school. A good guy, mature for his age and a nerd - c'mon what would you expect. Actually most of the class looks Mac nerdy not PC nerdy, or nerdy in a trendy way.

Speaking of trendy nerds, this school is a nerd show case on steroids. You know the stereotypes from all those high school movies, this is where they come when not shooting movies. There are the aspiring audio engineers, they wear all the latest trends with all the new tweaks, all the bling, all the slang (when you see a huge group of them all sporting the same looking getup trying so hard to be different in a group of people that all look the same its great irony, pretty funny - will try to get some pictures). Then there are the animators, the digital art people, visual art and such. Basically you get three choices of hair-do. You can go mo-hawk, bald, or ponytail (this goes men and women). You hair must be black, you are allowed fire red highlights. Grungy clothing is expected, blacks and grays are encouraged, but a little quirky panache is ok (like red converse sneakers, white suspenders, or full face and head tattoo).

Then there are the developers, this group ( my group) stands out in the same way a dodge neon would stand out in a line up with Lamborghini diablos. We are quite extra ordinary. My people try to blend in but we end up sticking out in spite of our strategic clothing choices of blue jeans, new balance sneakers, and subtly faded striped polo t-shirts.

Needless to say its fun place to go a peruse the halls. Just don't let the art people see you with a PC laptop, they will take you out back and beat you with it (I hear they have lost a lot of good programmers).

Well I'm excited to see how it goes tomorrow will update then, later people!