I'm working towards switching my major to Game Design and Development.

I actually made this decision back in July, after finally deciding that I cannot enjoy my Mechanical Engineering major. My original intent with the ME major was to enter a non-art major that could complement my interest in LEGO, and while I have the skill sets for Mechanical Engineering, I cannot maintain an interest in it or be happy with it. Thus I have decided to switch my major to something else.

Despite the competition and capped enrollment, my primary interest is the Game Design and Development major at RIT, the same University I was perusing my ME major at. My fallback plan is the Game Development major at the nearby Finger Lakes Community College, and then maybe bounce back to RIT after I get some good credentials at Finger Lakes.

My interest in Game Design and development has been built on several scatted things: my previous practice with the FreeSpace Open engine, my interaction with Project BUILD, my increased attention and interest in the game industry, my competent yet still amateur 3D modeling abilities, and my experiences at RRU. As I have sampled various elements of game design, I find it to be easy on my brain. Unlike Mechanical Engineering work which took a great pile of mental effort to motivate myself, I find the programming, modeling, and design in Game Development to be almost addicting; it's the same feeling I get with LEGO projects and keeps me on them for hours.

As I work through the GD&D application process with the application being due on December 18th, I have also been taking two courses closer to home at Syracuse University. I'm taking Discrete Math as it is a required course under the major. Also, as the only programming courses I took for my ME major involved MATLAB and Visual Basic, I'm also taking Introduction to Computer Programming, which turned out to simply be a course for learning C.