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[Minos]

Hey guys, how about opening our hearts ?

I'll begin then. I've been getting increasingly tired of the internet and computer related stuff lately. It's scary for me how much time of my life I "wasted in this virtual world". I've come to the conclusion that I lost my entire adolescence in front of the screen. Social life ? Yeah, I have a few friends but I'm not too proud of them, they are not assholes but they aren't 100% trustworthy. Girls ? Once/Twice in a year most of the times :S

But... I decided to twist my life completely. I'm applying for the uni next month. It's in a fairly big city called Bauru (450k habs), crackerjack has been there last year btw, and it's got one of the leading industrial design unis in Brazil. The cool part is that it's free. hmm.. So ? If I get accepeted I'm planning on living 100% by my own as soon as I get my first job. I don't mind if I get a crappy salary at first but I wanna experience living with some really short money. Oh. And there are two things that I don't wanna take with me. TV and computer.

Well, the crappy part is that it's pretty difficult to get into it. They accept only 30 people per semester and there are like 700 applicants. So, I will be studying like a fucker the coming month (exams are from 17 to 19 dec). I really wanna get accepted to this fucking uni and finally live by myself.

So, how about you ? How do you feel about life ? What are your plans for the coming years ?

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[Argyll]

As soon as I get INS rolling on the right track (i.e. released), I plan on getting on with life. Yeah, sure it's fun and all, but there's more to it. I don't want to get into the industry, so it kind of all seems like a waste.

I'm (finally) buying a Digital SLR as soon as I can afford it after paying off next term's tuition. That will really get me rolling better with photojournalism, which I hope to ultimately do with my life.

[TomWithTheWeather]

I'm in total relax mode at the moment. Work is slow. Starting a new game from scratch takes a long ass time so there won't be any crunch mode for a good while. Complete lack of stress.

I've met a girl I can very easily be with for the rest of my life. We've been dating for almost half a year now. I've moved in with her, and things couldn't be better. In fact, I just made dinner, and I never cook! I'm so giddy all the time now, nothing can touch me.

So I guess I'm doing well at the moment.

[jfas]

ive had the most difficult, stressful, and just awful year of my life, starting new is hard mino, very hard, but i've kept a smile on my face and i dont think i'd have changed anything, you can always chalk up the worst, to experience. now its been a year since ive been home, and ive earned a good break, so for one month im just going to relax.

good luck mino, and dont let the lady's get you down, as my dad always says "dont let it stop you from doing your school work", and the best advice i could give is to surround yourself with friends who care

[johnm487]

I moved out of my house a couple months ago and its completly different. Youll find it much harder, but life becomes way more interesting. its hard being on your own, but ive seem to do fine so far. I was you 6 months ago, real bored with life. i had a few friends that im real close to, some crappy girl who kept screwing me over, and a full time job, and i completly hated it, so i decided to do somthing i really want and go to school for game design. so i started applying to schools and got accepted. in january im moving to arizona to go to school. im pretty exited to see what it all has to offer me. good luck in the real world mino.

[Fletch]

I live with Mike and Mojo. I'm pretty happy with that. I'll be giong back to get my Master's degree next August most likely (depends on how jobs/scholarships/randomness of life turns out).

[Taylor Swift]

How I feel over my life.

If my parents didnt bought me a pc I would be working as a president long time ago with girls around and had a steady rappin, party cracking everyday drinkin coconut milk and chrystal champagne in my red ferrari.

it's a big difference.

My plans over the coming years.

Finnish school, get job, get a life. and make my own game called Nexusshorts.

[Skjalg]

You should also consider taking some english classes

[Section_Ei8ht]

So I gotta take Calculus I again next semseter. Not because I failed (Hell, I have a B atm), but because I dont feel like I'm learning anything. This instructor is all over the place, and in my opinion, is just a bad instructor. The only reason I understood Derivatives is because I learned myself (hence the B), but due to finals coming up for other classes and crunch time for a project to significantly increase revenue at work, I dont have time to teach myself Integrals. The professor everyone recommends is teaching it next semester, so I'll retake it then and maybe I'll actually learn something. Why am I doing this, why not just take the B? Well, I have two tests left that determine about half of my grade and they are both on integration, which i suck at, so it wont be a B for much longer, and two, I need to take Calc II and possibly III, which is pretty integral based, so I kinda need to have an understanding (more of an understanding than a B). Such is the hazard of a Computer Science major with a potential Math double major. Yes, I'm one of those rare breeds that actually enjoys math (only when its taught correctly and I understand it).

Seems these days even art cant calm me down from all this. I do artwork at work, and some psychological term for the lack of motivation when a hobby turns into a career (intrinsic or extrinsic or something). Most I can do these days to keep me from going insane (again) is playing a game or the occasional art scribble or program snipped that never leads anywhere. Hopefully I'll get around to writing a small program or make a portfolio webpage or flash game or a level between semesters this winter.

And we now have a potential client at work (unorthidox arcade game distributor) who wants a demo intro to see whether or not the investors want to work with us (work being web design and e-commerce management) and guess who gets to make the damn thing! So basically, if I fuck up, we're still crawling, but if I dont, well, the company would not be crawling anymore, and I could finally get that better workstation and the raise.

Such is my rant. Gonna be under a-lot of stress for the next week.

[GrayFox]

If you have questions about derivatives and integrals, just ask me. They're my speciality.

[skdr]

If you have questions about derivatives and integrals, just ask me. They're my speciality.

A laundry line, 190 inches in length, hangs between the tops of two poles that are each 135 inches high. The middle of the rope hangs 40 inches above the ground. What is the distance between the two poles?

I'm serious, I need the answer.

[skdr]

I've met a girl I can very easily be with for the rest of my life. We've been dating for almost half a year now. I've moved in with her, and things couldn't be better. In fact, I just made dinner, and I never cook! I'm so giddy all the time now, nothing can touch me.

So I guess I'm doing well at the moment.

You stole the words from my mouth, except I'm moving together with her next year

[Kosmo]

I'm working like a monkey as a personal graphics designer for a small company, slowly gathering different concepts and projects as a portfolio to showcase my skills. If I can't land a job with that, my backup plan is to continue with a project of mine to do and publish my own small game.

[Mazy]

Cant complain about how things are going so far, but I also plan on spending less time on computers and more time on social stuff in the future. Even I can see the absurdity in completing like 4 games per week . Although I live for games and movies, then I want to do some other things with my life, especially at this point. Need to get my own place first though

[ReNo]

Best of luck getting into that uni mino, sounds like a good opportunity!

I'm currently in my 4th and final year of uni, studying computer games tech. The uni is pretty shitty but I met some good mates - unfortunately too closed a group and now that half of them have left uni, I basically just chill with my flatmates. I'd say that's not the best situation to find yourself in by the way - we never end up going out, which would probably be true regardless given my current workload and financial status!

My social life only really exists back at home - at uni I seem to live only for computery stuff. I think I got in with a "bad crowd" Women...well occasional things here and there back home but I haven't pulled at uni for...well, two years or something I'm somewhat disillusioned with my previously chosen career (level design), so don't know what I'm going to be applying for once I finish uni in 6 months. I lack any modern engine portfolio stuff for level design, have too much stuff to do for uni to really focus on improving my modelling skills, and while I'm a reasonable programmer, I'm far from the competence level to be applying for games programming jobs! I don't wanna be one of those graduate supermarket attendants

All in all, things could most certainly be worse, but I'm not at my best :roll: