Yesterday I took my entrance exams for HAL, a famous technical school in Japan, and got in. Starting April I will officially be studying video game design and planning for the next four years.
I took a tour yesterday and the school looks really, really awesome and the guy who’s in charge of coordinating the international students was really, really nice and I’m so happy that I got in that I could die.
So, anyway, yeah, that’s one huge worry lifted of my shoulders. Now I get to worry about finding an apartment, changing my visa over, and getting all my ducks in a row.
ETA: I’ve put up a blog on Iris where I’ll be talking more about this: The Life and Times of a Video Game Design Student
Congratulations! That’s awesome on so many levels.
congrats on getting in! yay!
Wow! Great! I look forward to playing some games designed by ya in the coming years!
Congrats!
(ok, selfish motivation here: Looking forward to posts about how gender plays out in that school…)
Thanks for the props 🙂
jeffliveshere said:
Well, it actually won’t be over here. I’ve made a blog specifically for this topic over at Iris: The Life and Times of a Video Game Design Student. I’m working on the first article now.
Congratulations! You most definitely deserve it, so great job tekanji, and congratuwelldone!
Congratulations!
What sort of things are tested on the HAL entrance exam?
Zach: I’m going to go into that in detail in my next post on the blog I linked Jeff to. Although it’s late so I won’t post it until at least tomorrow.
congrats!
Now, go make us some cool games to play (in another four years)! 🙂
Eek, I didn’t see this until now! Belated congratulations! xx
Really? Well congrats and good luck!Video games can be a tough industry to break into.