Hello again, my blog, my followers! It's been a while but I have a good reason for this ~Adventures~ And while having lots to share and show First My grades Zbrush- A 3D Illustration, Media and Tech- A Maya 3D Animation- B Game Design- A A bit of clearance about the transfer of grades from one university to another: -if you chose to do an exchange year be careful how your grades/credits will transfer! Try to ask teachers or exchange advisers on the topic because I am guessing every university is different. For future UWE students wanting to go on exchange do note down that you WON'T be able to drop out your lowest grade from year 2 due to your study abroad. Credits do transfer though so you can be safe about this. Personally for me this was a slight problem because I put more effort in my American university study than my English one (don't get me wrong, I tried my best at both of them, just UWE decided I was not good enough in my subjects... and where do I get my degree from?- UWE, not America... but experience/talent over grades. ( I will make a future post about 'Things to know when applying for an exchange university study program' because I think that will be more beneficial to a lot of the readers here! Continuing on the same topic with the grades, I have only one complaint to make. As you can see I have one single 'B' in the almost perfect A-list. What happened there? I really don't know! I understand that the first half of the semester my Maya animation was not the best! I had a lot of difficulties with the program, the texturing, the cameras... pretty much everything. But I ended up getting a 'B' which is understandable and I am not questioning it. Second half of the semester I learned what UV-s are, I learned how to texture, how to work with Arnold, how to make better camera movements and I learned more about rigging. My animation has a slightly different concept (a better one) and in top of everything it has PARTICLES! Maya people would understand the struggles. AND I DID INDEED STRUGGLE! Personally, and I repeat, personally, if someone was to look at the comparison between the two animation they would see the big difference and the effort and everything learned put together into the new animation. (Both animation will be uploaded in the 'My Work' tab under 'Maya Animation') After all this, I do not understand why I got a 'B' again. Of course, I did try to contact my tutor but I did not receive any emails back. No written criteria was attached to the grade as well. Another thing that caught my eye was that none of the grades had written evaluation with them. It did not bother me for my A-s but the B made me question this. Unfortunately with no reply back. Enough from this. Same principle from the top could be applied here- experience/talent over grades! Oh and one really awesome thing: I got an email from the Dean of my university congratulating me on my success and good grades. It is a very generic email (probably sent to a lot of other people) but I am indeed proud. Dear Vasilena Kavanozova, My learning experience had reached it's peak here in America and I do not regret one bit of the decision to have an exchange semester at VCU! I will try to continue with the same spirit onwards- broadening my horizons and experiencing new possibilities!
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