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Today I come to you with a blog, not reporting from any event or bragging about meeting pro gamers, no - today I blog in need for some help.If you want some music for the read, listen to this:
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I love this song so much...
I'm in an awkward situation right now, regarding my choice for studies. For the ones willing to read a bit, I'll provide a short backstory in the following spoiler tags.
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I studied Computer Science from winter 2010 till winter 2011 (technically I’m still enrolled until the end of March). Uni was pretty hard (TU Darmstadt, Germany for anyone who cares) and I was distracted by Starcraft. I also wasn’t really motivated for the studies, which was the main thing, I kinda just went with it because I wanted to move in with my best friend and at that time band mate. I ended up leaving that band and things were a bit awkward for some time, but now it’s ok again.
All I could think when I would wake up for uni in the morning was I don’t want, I don’t want... and that’s just an incredibly shitty feeling - and I ended up staying in bed more often than not. I also didn’t socialize very well (although I have no problem doing it, I just felt like everything and everyone was just annoying me), which is pretty detrimental to studying successfully. After the first semester I was like, ok shit, I messed up hardcore, let’s go at it again in the second one. That one started very well but then I got sidetracked again, missed a few lectures and couldn’t catch up. GG. From there on I started thinking about my life and what I was doing wrong, and realized I had to find out what I really wanted. That I did, and here’s the rest of the story and the next dilemma, haha ;D
All I could think when I would wake up for uni in the morning was I don’t want, I don’t want... and that’s just an incredibly shitty feeling - and I ended up staying in bed more often than not. I also didn’t socialize very well (although I have no problem doing it, I just felt like everything and everyone was just annoying me), which is pretty detrimental to studying successfully. After the first semester I was like, ok shit, I messed up hardcore, let’s go at it again in the second one. That one started very well but then I got sidetracked again, missed a few lectures and couldn’t catch up. GG. From there on I started thinking about my life and what I was doing wrong, and realized I had to find out what I really wanted. That I did, and here’s the rest of the story and the next dilemma, haha ;D
Now the relevant stuff:
In the past few weeks I've applied at a few colleges (in German they are called "Fachhochschule", which should be the equivalent to college in the US). It was really short notice, I wasn't sure if the letters would arrive in time, and even if they would I somehow didn't really expect them to accept me, given that I had studied 3 semesters without any results before.
Well, now three out of four colleges I applied to accepted me, of which one was very secondary to me, I would've only went there if I wouldn't have had another choice
The two others however, were the ones I really, really wanted to go to. Yesterday I got the confirmation from the school in Stuttgart and I literally jumped in the air and screamed and stuff - wasn't that happy in a long time haha! Just now though, the confirmation from the college in Trier came in and now I'm like... ok that's great but NOW I HAVE TO CHOOSE OMG TT (it's really stupid, I know).
Alright, so now that me complaining about finally being in a pretty good situation (as in having to choose between two studies I both really want to do) is out of the way, I shall present you the subject I would study at each college, and maybe some of the great TLers out there can help me make a choice.
STUTTGART: Hochschule der Medien (Media College)
The subject I’m accepted for is Online Media Management, which should be pretty self explanatory. You learn some economics, media stuff like law and of course later how to produce media as well, specifically online media, which can be videos, websites, social media etc.. Then you learn media management, which contains the business side of things. So you end up being a media expert/manager with focus on the cool online stuff.
The city is pretty far from my current place (Mainz) but I don’t mind that. In fact, I like big cities and I’m pretty sure I’d really like it down there.
TRIER: Fachhochschule Trier
Here I’m accepted for Digital Media and Games. Yeah right, that’s actually pretty awesome. It’s basically game design/programming, which starts with the basics of computer science, while later branching out into a little bit of economics, but also continuing with very technical CS stuff.
The city is rather small, not nearly as large as Stuttgart. Kind of close to Luxembourg, Belgium and North France. It’s the oldest city in Germany from what I know and it’s definitely beautiful (I visited it a few years back). Again, I like large cities a lot so I’d probably prefer Stuttgart but it’s not a major thing.
Now that you know the details, here is my problem: I think content wise, Trier would make a lot more sense. I’m genuinely interested in Online Media but in the end it’s all about THE GAMES. No, seriously, I love games and actually studying GAMES sounds amazing.
On the other hand though, it’s going to be very technical (however a bit easier than on my previous uni) but I feel like studying management suits me much better personally, than (computer) science.
So here is where I need you, TL. I’m very inexperienced in studying and I don’t have a very broad view of things. Maybe you know/see aspects I don’t. Please share with me
Thanks in advance. I need to decide this weekend. If you need some more info/have any questions I’ll gladly provide/answer.<3
