Hi, I'm McJob. If you haven't seen my posts around the forums, you're one of the lucky cunts who hasn't seen me bitch and moan about college for the past 3.5 years until now.
Things have come to a head, and it's all thanks to my (almost) final Academic Transcript. To clearly illustrate why I'm so loving frustrated with all of this bullstuff, I've taken the key information and made this little thing here.
Before I start, you'll notice that
Character Design lists a '?' grade and 0 Credit Points, which is because it's the final class which I complete in ~5 weeks and thus I don't have results yet. Also, I added the categories manually, and some subjects are a combination of art, theory and/or film (such as
Production Design).
At the end of 2015, my GPA was at
3.4. In the space of TWO TERMS, it's taken a loving nose dive to beat all nose dives into a
2.57. This is RIDICULOUS.
I am loving pissed off, and it goes beyond poor scores. This is a
GAME DESIGN course. Now, you might say, "Ben you fat cunt, there's more Game Subjects than subjects of other categories there! What are you whining about you little bitch?" Let's go to the dot points to find out more about this bollocks:
- In my original Academic Transcript (you're handed a blank one at the start of the course with a listing of all the classes, elective units and some other info), there were only TWO Games subjects listed (Game Play and Game Development). Futhermore, the teachers indicated they were the only two games classes that existed at the time. To have more Games Subjects was an incredible feat.
- I was the cunt who got Special ICT Project and Understanding Programming installed. As you can see, both are still electives, and I can confirm SICTP won't be coming back.
- Game On isn't a new subject, and I've technically done it twice. Game On was the Elective-variant of Game Development for non-Games major students. The idea was that Game Development was about making simple games and levels in Unity, and that Animation/Web students could be assisted by the Games students. Game On has since been changed to a subject about VR/AR/Projection Mapping, and Game Development seems to have been retired.
So, you're done complaining now, right?
HAHAHAHAHA.Nope. See, I want to contest those subjects in red. Why?
- I did almost ALL of the loving work in Special ICT Project, where the criteria wasn't supposed to be based on the quality of the project but on how you contributed. Special ICT Project was designed to be a 2-term team project to get us to make more games and get a feel for the production environment. It went to stuff. One guy left the team. The two animators made some basic models but stubbornly refused to read the documentation I sent them, meaning we spent more time fixing their stuff that never made it in and actually made us run over the deadline. The other designer literally contributed nothing; I did all of his work and my work since all he wanted to do was debate without providing evidence his gameplay system was better. Yes, the game was stuff, but that wasn't in the criteria.
- Game On is the one that cuts the deepest. We had a wildly successful VR game that far loving outranked every other game made in that class and was the star attraction of the Graduate Exhibition. My essay about Twitch Streaming was also perfect. I cannot loving fathom how I got the low rank out of that. My friend and I pulled equal share of the work (I did code and audio, he did art).
- WHAT THE forget. I FULFILLED EVERY. SINGLE. CRITERIA POINT. FOR MAJOR PROJECT 1. I'M SORRY MY TIMETABLE AND BLOG DIDN'T HAVE A MILLION loving ENTRIES. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I GOT THROWN FROM A KANGAROO-HUMPING BRIDGE BECAUSE THE TEACHER WHO CAME IN TO MARK MY ASSESSMENT DIDN'T LIKE MY IDEA. I HAD TO loving STAND UP THERE AND LOOK LIKE A loving IDIOT BECAUSE I TRIED TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT. THANKS.
- Apparently bringing yourself to the edge of death to get Major Project 2 done was only worth a Credit. Yeah, the game was kind of stuff and my journal was light, but at least I had a working loving video game and I did it all myself, unlike some people...
Since I don't have access to marks, there's no way to see how close I was to getting the higher grade in those subjects, but I want to believe I was cheated out of appropriate grades by only a few marks, as that'd fit this college and its bullstuff perfectly. I'm not even pissed at some of the other classes with low grades, such as
Advanced Motion Graphics. I wouldn't even be mad at my GPA if I had done great on all of my Game subjects, but apparently that was never to be.
My only consolation is that Australia has no AAA studios looking intensively at your GPA; it's all indie guys and gals who are looking at your portfolio. Just fantastic.
