• yesman@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Anybody remember all those commercials for private universities offering degrees in “game development” back in the 90s, early 2000s? I was considering it for a time. Dodged a bullet there I guess.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      I went to one of those, around 2010ish. I have many, many consecutive hours of bitching that I could do about it, but suffice to say it’s exactly as bad as you’d expect.

      I made some really good friends there, though, some of which I’m still in touch with. Out of the five of us who hung out together, I think one of us graduated.

      Personally, after I dropped out, I tried to transfer the nearly half a degree worth of credits that I had completed, only to find out that not a single one of those transfers to any other school due to some difference in the school’s accreditation, which we only learned about after I left it. Very pleased to learn that, I walked out of that school with $30k in student loan debt and literally nothing whatsoever to show for it.

      This kind of shit is how arson happens, don’t fall for it.