You want to know the important things that I've learned for the two years that I've spent in college?
Well then, let me tell you what I learned in college. In fact, let me tell you TEN things that I learned in college.
10. Never sleep. Sleep is for the weak and the weak have no place in a working class environment. Sugar and coffee will become your only friends.
9. You will never have any free time from here on out. The amount of college projects that will be piled upon you once you get in will be so ridiculous, you'll never be able to spend any more time on your actual life. Considering that when you start to actually work for a company and that this workload will quadruple, you might as well move out of your house and start camping in your 6 x 6 feet cubicle everyday from now on.
8. Use Helvetica for everything. You'll eventually learn that this typeface is used for pretty much everything. I mean it. EVERYTHING. So, if you're having a designer's block and start thinking that using Comic Sans MS and Papyrus is a smart idea, shoot yourself in the foot, plop Helvetica in, and call it a day.
7. Cram all your projects. Being a lazy bum, I know you're not going to pay attention to your college instructors at all. This is good because then you can just laze about and bother your classmates about the projects' specifics later on. Then, just a day before the project is due, you should start getting to work and cram the hell out of it because obviously the best work is always made at the last minute.
6. Brown-nose. Want to get good grades? Make all your projects about your instructor even if they have nothing to do with them. Praise them like they were some mighty deity and commission artists to make paintings of them. Give them belly rubs when they ask for it and always have a cookie available whenever they get hungry. Generally, do everything in your power to make the other students look crummy and you'll have the best grades out of all of them.
5. Half of your college time will be spent rendering stuff out. I guess I kind of lied with point number nine. You do have some breathing room between projects but technically you're still working on them. If you're a 3D or a Video major, you know for a fact that when you finally have to convert everything you've done into a finalized format, you're going to have to render them out and this usually takes up somewhere between one to five years. So, take that time to rest because it's the only time you'll be able to.
4. The internet is a very interesting place. You will learn more about useless information from the internet than you will about whatever lesson you're currently learning in college. Fact.
3. If you're entering any art field, Saul Bass was important for some reason. Just remember his name and you'll be good for 20% of your entire college workload.
2. Being a goofball is cool in college. If you want to make friends with people who will be in the industry with you, prepare to embarrass yourself for the sake of popularity.
1. Make a blog about the Top 10 things you've learned in college. It'll be useful one of these days.
