Very similar story, had to climb the ranks of college from baby word processing because my GCSEs were awful, then got in a game dev course with a lecturer who talked about working on famous games. I kind of had the opposite to you though because she clocked me as talented and the rest of the class kept getting compared to me, which I will tell you isn't any better. I was just so embarrassed and felt like everyone else hated me for it.
its crazy how similar your uk college exp was to mine 🤣 I wanted to do a level 3 in IT as it "covered game design" but due to my eng/math GCSE's being below C I got forced in to a level 2 where I had to build a pc and do the most generic IT crap (which was pointless as I built my own pcs a bunch of times up till this point). that experience + my time with GCSEs really tainted the idea of education for me and led me to become self taught and seeking mentorships instead
I really don't get what's up with these power tripping lecturers, really. Their job is also to provide actionable, valuable feedback. Sounds funny in retrospect, but that's just weird.
@@EMC3D like you, probably one in a million, the rest of education and the games industry is a horror game doesn't surprise me that video games feel whatever these days - a former student
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As a teacher, how your students model is how you teached them...
Very similar story, had to climb the ranks of college from baby word processing because my GCSEs were awful, then got in a game dev course with a lecturer who talked about working on famous games. I kind of had the opposite to you though because she clocked me as talented and the rest of the class kept getting compared to me, which I will tell you isn't any better. I was just so embarrassed and felt like everyone else hated me for it.
Very based!
Thank you!
its crazy how similar your uk college exp was to mine 🤣 I wanted to do a level 3 in IT as it "covered game design" but due to my eng/math GCSE's being below C I got forced in to a level 2 where I had to build a pc and do the most generic IT crap (which was pointless as I built my own pcs a bunch of times up till this point).
that experience + my time with GCSEs really tainted the idea of education for me and led me to become self taught and seeking mentorships instead
We may be long lost siblings of 3D!
I really don't get what's up with these power tripping lecturers, really. Their job is also to provide actionable, valuable feedback. Sounds funny in retrospect, but that's just weird.
It's a sad reality that the best/common sense lecturers are the rare ones in Education...
@@EMC3D like you, probably one in a million, the rest of education and the games industry is a horror game
doesn't surprise me that video games feel whatever these days
- a former student