So the school's Game Design program had more minor changes than I was hoping for yesterday, but this is still just fine with me. The changes made to the curriculum were basically adding a business class and a "programming is fun" class, renaming and combining a few other classes, and dropping one class all together. Nothing earth-shattering, like offering a Games Programming degree, which has been my pie-in-the-sky hope for a little while now.

But on the plus side, that's a bit irrelevant to me: the head of the Game Design program has already swapped out a couple of extra-curricular classes (C++ and Flash) for me so I can apply them to the Game Design Degree! And he has promised to continue to swap out certain design-oriented classes in the future so I can really learn dig down on C++, C#, and algorithms! :D

In general, going to school again, I feel torn between trying to specialize in something useful (like programming/networking) and continuing to try to be a jack of all trades. I just don't think I'm the kind of person who can succeed as a specialist. I've never tried to specialize before, and I've always done better with variety in my job description. Also I don't see myself thriving in environments where specialists are more warranted, rather I see myself on small teams where everyone has to wear many hats at once. So instead of trying to do something drastic like sign up for a programming-only curriculum, I think I'm going to continue trying to be a generalist. I'll have to grind really hard on a lot of skills in order to make that work for me, but in the end I think that makes the most sense for the person I think I am and want to be.

Okay, that's my brain for now. If you readers have any thoughts/experiences to share on the idea of generalists vs specialists in the workplace, I'd like to hear them. :3