Alright, it's time for my first gamedev discourse thread - I'm gonna talk about my education path/why I didn't get a degree for a few (probably more than a few) tweets. Buckle up, everybody!

I wanna put this out here up front - I am a cis white woman living in California. I'm also aware of my privilege *being* white and cis and from the US. I don't want to tell this story pretending like I started with the same footing as anyone who doesn't have those privileges.

The tl;dr of this thread is that spite and wanting people to be proud of me has gotten me further than I think any degree ever could, and if I had gotten my English degree, I'd be deep in debt and wouldn't even know about narrative design as a career path.

I HATED high school. I hated it so much that halfway through Junior year, I told my principal I was going to graduate a year early. He was super rude, dismissive, and told me it was impossible to do 18 months worth of coursework in 6 months. I took it as a challenge.