Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-5089372-20120924025545/@comment-4830404-20120925020734

Damn, you must be really tough to move out and make a living on your own. /salute

Taking some courses on your own time sounds pretty cool. I think that one course per semester would be ok, although depending on the course it could still get pretty hectic with work and life... I would've definitely dropped classes if I could, but my immigration status would've been in jeopardy >_<  While we're on student visas, we have to take full course loads no matter what and we can't graduate late.

When I first started college, I wanted to double major in programming and creative writing. I love stories. Sadly I didn't end up pursuing that path... I figured that programming would be more likely to feed me, so I focused on my Computer Science degree.

I was very lucky with funding. My school was pretty generous with scholarships so I got full tuition for undergrad (except the final semester because I was an idiot and messed around too much, so I lost the scholarship for that semester). I didn't actually learn much about programming until I changed majors to do more game development in grad school though. Experience is much better than theory when it comes to programming. The sweet deal about grad school was that the school also employed me as a research assistant. That job gave me a small salary (better than nothing), but the real bonus was full tuition. It helped me save so much money going to college.

But yea that job + classes was a LOT of work... It takes a lot of effort to keep game projects on track. Even a very small, simple game takes a surprising amount of team members. Working with everyone can be quite challenging, especially when different people have different approaches to deadlines. /sigh at procrastinators...

I hope you enjoy whatever class you take :)