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
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October 4th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Congratulations! That’s awesome on so many levels.
October 4th, 2007 at 6:37 am
congrats on getting in! yay!
October 4th, 2007 at 7:41 am
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…)
October 4th, 2007 at 7:43 am
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.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Congratulations! You most definitely deserve it, so great job tekanji, and congratuwelldone!
October 4th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Congratulations!
What sort of things are tested on the HAL entrance exam?
October 4th, 2007 at 8:27 am
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.
October 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
congrats!
Now, go make us some cool games to play (in another four years)!
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October 8th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Eek, I didn’t see this until now! Belated congratulations! xx
October 13th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Really? Well congrats and good luck!Video games can be a tough industry to break into.