Graduation and what’s next?

Next week is graduation day and generally the last time I'll see and speak to most of my peers and lecturers. Though I can imagine I’ll keep in contact with a 10 or so, it’s realistically the last time you’ll see everyone together. People move back home in most cases around the country and in some cases back to their home country.  It’s a great opportunity to reminisce and socialise although I personally won’t be attending mine because of costs.

I think this time tells a lot about a student. Speaking to quite a lot of my peers almost all of them haven’t even opened 3Ds Max (Main program we used for uni) and I think it clearly shows those who were actually passionate about the course and their career. At the moment my timetable is 10 hours’ 3Ds Max a day, 6 days a week. I'm planning to give my portfolio a huge boost with my skills in the next few weeks.

I enjoy doing it and sometimes in my assigned breaks I’ll be still working on projects. Though in the meantime I've been accepted to 3 different scholarships at 2 different universities. This means if I decided that industry isn't right for me at the moment then I’ll carry on with education.

I think the perfect job for me would to be working in a small 3D animation studio and I think I'm ready for that. I’ll polish up my portfolio in the next few weeks and be sending it to a certain few companies that’d love to work at.

I think this applies to any computer science course, work on your portfolio. It’s 100% your portfolio that counts. Your degree will only matter when being compared to someone who doesn't have one.