Joining university is a hard and a life changing decision.
The course you want to study, the university and if further study is right for
you. The likelihood is that going to university is the first major opportunity
you’ll encounter. It’s a major stepping stone towards a career, but getting
accepted to the university is the first hurdle.
The definition of luck is that it’s brought on by chance rather
than one’s own action, but opportunities on the other hand can be brought on by
things like skill, determination and contacts. Doing things like researching
into a programming language for a programming course before going into the university
interview or maybe playing around in some 3D software when joining a 3D
Animation interview means a lot. The interviewee may have someone who’s done
exactly that, meaning if you haven’t dabbled and researched you might find
yourself looking elsewhere. Every small thing counts, printing Hello World
maybe slight, but at least you've taken the time to look into it in your own
time. The more effort you put in, the results will clearly show and will give
you a much wider range of options in life’s next step. This is my last blog
post, I've successfully finished university with a first and achieved
everything I wanted to. I thought I’d round up with something that I wish I was
told when I was younger. Make your own opportunities can be something as simple
as joining a user group, every single contact you create is vital for when you
finish university. It’s very long term, but every little bit extra you do will
help in the long run. My final year of university I did an internship,
Microsoft Student Partnership, freelanced, co-authored a paper and planned it
all around my study time. These have all led to other opportunities and such as
guest blog post sites on some major websites all because of the blog you’re
reading now!
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