I'm dropping out of college, but I've been stuck here for three years.

>>1431061
Really? You were so close, any reason why? I'm also curious how those in college are managing to find time for cosplay.

Kasai
Soni
TristenCitrine
JJ

went to one of the University of California schools. not saying which. once I graduated, my desire, time, and funding for cosplay went down the tubes.

I wish I could have remained an undergrad forever. fucking economy.

>>1431069
Wow really? I didn't know that. Interesting.

I'm in university.

those are currents, btw.and if you're lucky, a couple of them will probably drop in and tell you how they find the time for it.

Ninja Attorney just started?
Acire
Foxtale
Miyu, soon?

Sup

>>1431087
D:

>>1431109
There are a lot of others who have graduated and are still in school and whatnot. The list is huge.

>>1431126
Do tell, I'm curious!

>>1431126
i would expect it to be.

so, how do you have time for cosplay? INQUIRING OP WANTS TO KNOW >>1431064

I'm in university as well. I'm a medical student and actually I don't have much free time for cosplay left... I manage to do barely 3 cosplays a year now when I used to do twice or so the amount... That's also probably the amount of conventions I go to now, 2-3 a year, that's it. Sad, isn't it? :/

>>1431119
Time? What time? I barely have enough time to scratch my own ass.

jkjk, its a bit stressful. I went through a period where I didn't go to school and just worked, but I just didn't find the satisfaction in that and wanted to continue my studies. Now that I'm back, its been stressful, I get bumps in the road, but so far so good. I feel truly productive when I'm in school.

I work on cosplays if I have a couple of hours free during the day and on weekends when I'm free. But I'm not focusing on cosplay atm, not until my winter break at least.

im not in a university im in college, universities can suck my-

if you do an assload of costumes and cons during the year, cosplay sweatshop work is for winter or spring break.

otherwise it's just a handful a year, spread over time like >>1431136

whichever fits your time-management style is best. When I was in uni, I worked in the theater costume workshop, I learned a lot of tailoring skills and had access to all the industrial machines. I just walked in one quarter and ask "do you guys need help?" It was my favorite on-campus job.

>>1431148
>im not in a university im in college
It shows.

I'm in college. Doing 20 credits and just dished out a new cosplay recently. My motivation for cosplay needs to be really high for me to want to work on them, and when it is, I find time while doing homework and on the weekends. Like, if I get sick of working on an assignment, I'll toy around with a costume for awhile, then I get sick of that, go back to homework, get sick of that, go back to costume, etc. Eventually they both get completed.

Sometimes I get super swamped with assignments and can't do that, though, so I'll find myself sewing all my plans for that year on winter or summer break.

>>1431161
>>1431136

I agree. I go to 2-3 cons a year now, making costumes during breaks or the occasional couple hours I have free.

I just generally try not to focus on cosplay during the schoolyear, because I tend to focus very singlemindedly on projects while I'm working on them, and I don't want my schoolwork to suffer.

I'm at a University. I make most of my costumes over the summer.

You can balance it. Just like everything else in life, it's a matter of having priorities You may not be able to afford to cosplay and go out drinking with the friends every night, or you may have the time to make stuff and do all the usual time-wasting fun that you get in university. That, or you may have to shelve a costume because of a badly-timed final.

You're effectively asking "can I cosplay and live my life" - that doesn't change, whether you're in high school, university, or out working a regular job or raising a family. Understand that cosplay is lower than real life on your priority list, live accodingly, and you'll be fine

>>1431210
OP here, I wasn't asking that. Nor was I asking for patronizing comments or for advice. I don't need it. Just was curious about the experience of others.

Currently Enrolled:
Loran
JJ
Soni
Miyu
Kasai
Maguma
LRC

>>1431222
Wow, someone's in a happy mood right now. Do you always rely on your winning personality when asking people things?

Since you're so big on general discussion, I'll just drop some fake names below to throw off your numbers.

>>1431254
I'm sorry but where at all in there was there a nasty attitude or personality flaw? You're trying to take the thread in a direction I wasn't desiring. Also, there's no need to act childish by attempting to thwart the thread.

>>1431272
>take the thread in a direction I wasn't desiring
Personality flaw right there.

>>1431281

I'm a grad.
When I was in I made 1 new costume a year. I'd work on props in my dorm and actually sew the thing during a break at home on my mom's machine

I once made an elf dress in one weekend on a friend's machine in her dorm but that was not my best work.

>>1431289
OP here, your extra information does not answer my original question. Please stop being so patronizing with your crazy "experiences" or "discussion". I want names, preferably alphabetized, of all cosplayers who have attended university. No more, no less.

>>1431292
Not amusing, troll.

I cosplay. I go to uni. Why the fuck do you want to know my name?

What makes us so unique? OMG COLLEGE AND COSPLAY? AT THE SAME TINE? NEVER.

>>1431292
Why do I get the feeling this is Masa?

going to a university right now. I rarely find the time to work on my cosplays though, I'll only do about one a year. Plus, I live away from home, where the sewing machine is.

Im in University and my boyfriend goes to college and we both have time to cosplay....thats how we met.

I'm an undergrad and a cosplayer. S'not that hard. Not many of my costumes lately have been that challenging lately, though. Thank God for choosing a theatre major. I have easy access to the costume shop; surge machines, sewing machines, patterns, any kind of cloth I can think of, and help from professors. I'm a little spoiled, now that I think about it.

I have a Master's degree. Starting a PhD in January, too.

>>1431427
Lol, I did that, got the degree, and now I'm working part time retail after being unemployed for months. You might want to rethink your choice of majors. I know if I had a time machine or more money to go back to school I would.

Graduated from Texas Tech two years ago with a degree in graphic design. Cosplay was way easier then because I was living off student loans and had money to spare.

Not so easy now that I'm having to pay all that money back. :c

>>1431427
What are you planning to do with your major?

Not being snarky, just curious.

I've been wanting to get into costuming for professional (Broadway, or it's equals) very badly, but honestly, since I wouldn't be able to have a steady and/or decently paid job unless I had an excellent degree and experience, in addition to probably needing to get a teaching job as a 'day job,' it wouldn't be worth it to me. I was in college for theater but the economy kicked my family's ass (parents worked for a car company, lol, probably going to lose the house) so I had to drop out to get a job to support.

BM, oboe performance. Long enough ago that I should be getting reunion notices soon.

have a Masters....about halfway to a PhD.

>>1431136
I'm also a medical student at university, and I'm actually cosplaying MORE than I used to at home (since I've moved out, parents don't know how many cons I go to, kufufu)...
Anon is kind of curious who this other mysterious cosplay medical student anon is...

I am doing a major at Illustration if that counts...

>>1431472
Same here, oddly enough.

Computer Science Major.
Graduated from The Citadel.
Working at IBM now.
^^

I had to recently drop out due to... life happening.

Buuuuuuut when I can go back I hope I can finish my art degree and hopefully eventually become a college art professor person thing. It'll probably be a few years though before I can start again...

Shit happens but I'm actually a lot better off living wise now that I'm not going to school oddly.

I'm doing a PhD. There's one other cosplayer I know of also doing a PhD here.

I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art and I'm a graphic designer now. I didn't start going to cons until I was in college so I really have nothing to compare it to other than being a cosplayer and having a full time job. There are positives and negatives to both, but I never felt like I didn't have time for it in school.

>>1431478

If you look like me with the exception of a stylin' goatee, I am very VERY sorry.

I'm finishing up a biomedical engineering degree.
In addition to working on a senior design project, applying for jobs, and looking at options for grad school, I've also got to deal with working a job and trying to keep up with a band I just got into.

I'm too burned out to even make cons, much less trying to make costumes. I just come by here now to live vicariously through other cosplayers D:

>>1431485
"here"?

Just transferred to a univ. Theres probably about 8-ish other cosplayers here

I went to American River College for 2 years from 2004-2006 with psychology as a major. But for complicated personal reasons I dropped out. But Feb 19th 2009 I'm going to the Art Institute of California with Graphic Design as my major.

of these cosplayers, who actually goes to a competitive school?

Whoa weird, I was seriously just thinking about making a cosplayers at college thread.

>>1431236
Haha this is, uh. A really short list. There are definitely way more than just us. We're probably just the ones who talk about it in our livejournals all the time :U

Anyway I'm at UMass Amherst but hoping to transfer to somewhere in SoCal next year. We'll see how that goes. Also, about to finally declare my major as Theater.

As far as finding time for cosplay.. I uh, don't really. Costumes for Katsu get made over winter break, costumes for spring cons get made over spring break.. minus simpler things like dyeing wigs or something that I can do here.

I'm a university undergrad double majoring in International Affairs and Japanese language with a little singing and amateur graphic design on the side. I only do one or two cosplays over three or four cons a year, but that's mostly because I like to get my time's worth out of a character. Much as I enjoy studying theories of international politics and translating excerpts from the Hōjōki, the atmosphere of my university and surrounding city is often boring. Cosplaying and cons keep me in good spirits throughout the year.

Pic is MAI PUROFESAA.

Just started my freshman year at a fairly competitive university. Class workload has been easy this first semester, but I haven't been here long enough to gauge how much time I can spare in the long run. Unfortunately, I'm the only cosplayer on-campus as far as I know.

Hello /cgl/
I am "unknown".
I graduated from college with an MIS BS degree (think 1/2 compsci and 1/2 business).

For all of you in college however, I would like you to take a looksee at my website, PostYourTest.com. Among many other features, it allows you to upload and download exams from your previous/current/future classes anonymously and for free, so you have an idea of what your professor is going to throw at you. Honestly, I would love your help making my site grow, so if you have anything to post or even any suggestions I would be very appreciative. Thanks!

>>1431548
what is your major?
If you're in the sciences (and some business/econ majors), say goodbye to either your grades or your free time.
>>1431557
interesting

>>1431292
Oh shut up OP.

Engineering. Yeah, I'm probably going to die in a year or so.

>>1431615
I'm surprised you're not dead now.

>>1431064
I wasn't close. Three years doesn't mean three productive years. I have really bad ADD and, with medication, I'm able to function enough to get through a day f work, but not enough to get through a semester of classes. The medication that I did well in school while on, I was taken off of because it was supposedly addictive. Luckily, I'm able to superfocus on sewing, even though sometimes I don't finish the costume because of sudden loss of interest.

>>1431489
If only! No, I'm female. Did absolutely nothing with my degree. You still play?

I got my undergrad and will be starting law school next year.

>>1431058

Why use cosplay as the sole qualifier, OP? If this is a way to figure out time/money management secrets, it's actually simpler than you think, or were you going for the straight hypothetical?

Unknown cosplayer here.
I'm a graduate of a private university with a B.S. in Computer Engineering.

I feel old.

so how many of you guys actually got jobs with your degrees?

it seems like there's a lot of art/theater students but not a lot of succesful art/theater graduates.

(HUH, I WONDER WHY THAT MIGHT BE.....)

I have two bachelors degrees.

>>1431833
see
>>1431486

I got one.

>>1431833
I have a job. Just not one in the field I studied. There are actually a couple music majors in my department, it's surprising.

>>1431833
better to be unseccesful in something you love then be successful in something you hate.

also i think they exact reason why i am not a successful artist is because i go to cons and make cosplay all the time. cosplay bored may not be the best place to look for successful people. i've never seen any one show up to a con in a hot new car.

>>1431833

I graduated with a degree in theater studies, focusing mostly on costume design. I translated that into doing contract sewing work for various places (alteration shops, upholstery shops, etc.) and individual clients.

I'm happier than ever professionally. Working for yourself = awesome.

Sometimes, having these arty-fartsy degrees makes finding a conventional job difficult. If you can't find your dream job, just create it yourself =P

I was in community college, but I dropped out to go to beauty school. Best decision I've ever made. I'm already feeling a lot happier and doing better than I ever was in standard school. (I'm definitely not stupid, but I don't always do well in standard university settings.)

Once I'm out of beauty school and have a job, though, I'm going back to college taking night school foreign language classes for like...forever. I need to brush up on the ones I've studied and learn even more.

I dropped out of school after a month due to my parents needing the $20,000 that they put in for tuition (I put in $2000, plus scholarships + loans, plus 20,000) and I haven't been back since.

:/ I really want to get back into school, though. I just need a job. And money. And some direction in what I want to do.

I have my B.A. in political science and international studies. I took a year off and am now getting my M.P.A. I have a pretty nice government internship lined up for the summer, so I'm hoping that will lead to a nice job after I graduate.

Got my BFA in Multimedia Design, now an art director for a small company full benefits and salary and jazz.

Unknown here. Got an Associates in Computer Programming and I work as a WebDev for a major university and also do freelance Drupal Development and Design

I am finishing up my Master's, and hoping to start my PhD in September next year. My cosplaying has been drastically cut down though, I only made one or two costumes and wear them for Halloween since I got into grad school. :(

I roll at UT Austin. Yawn.

>>1431729
Yeah, I play and teach. Sometimes I do tours, too.

University of Maryland sophomore, studying for my Government and Politics major.

I cosplay during conventions only.