Self taught designers
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Being a self taught designer it's really hard to have a solid opinion on a university experience. I took a couple classes in a JC enviroment which were complete crap...stopped going after I realized the teachers weren't there to actually teach and instead taught their 'real world' lessons from tutorial books.
I wish I would have taken the time to attend quality classes just because I think it could have really added some polish to my work. But on the other hand I think being self taught keeps a fire burning inside me to always try and out think or out conceptualize uni grads.
A good friend of mine went to Cal Arts for a degree in animation arts. When I would go visit him on campus it was always so inspiring and humbling to walk through the dorms and see the work some of those cats did. So I guess it just depends on where you go and what you get out of it in terms of advancement of talent and classmate interaction.
Now unfortunately I have so many bills that to take time out for a two to three year course from an art school would kill me financially.