Decisions Decisions

So a couple of days ago we (my class) was informed about the newest edition to our curriculum.  If I have not stated this before, my class is getting a new curriculum from the previous classes in hopes of giving us a better education.  The biggest (and I think the most useful) change to our curriculum is that they implemented a Major/Minor set up for our program.  Usually what would happen is at the end of Term 3 you decided what stream (Modeling, Animation, VFX) you wanted to go into and from Terms 4 to 6 you work on your final demo reel. Now they have changed it so that at the end of Term 2 (so in a couple of months for me) we must decide two fields of interest - one to major and minor in.   You'd specialize in these two streams in Term 3 and then at the end of the term pick one to actually stream into for the final terms.

They implemented this change because in Term 3 what would normally happen is that students must take courses in all 3 fields regardless of they wanted to do at the end. For instance some students going into animation could care less about VFX, so instead of actually taking those courses they could focus on animation and modeling. 

It's good that we can now focus our energies into what we want to do.  And with the class divided in this way we could get more personalized instruction since the classes would be smaller.  The only problem for me is that I don't know which two to pick.

Going in I knew I wanted to take visual effects or animation. So the logical choice would be to do a major and minor in those two fields. BUT now that I have had a taste for modeling I am quite confused.  They told us to focus on fields that would be useful in your final demo reel. So if you are doing VFX, and its a heavy animation based scene then do animation for a minor. If it requires complex models (and not much animation) then do modeling as the minor.  Problem is that I don't know now what will benefit me more because I intend to implement animation and modeling in my VFX reel - be it a robot, monster, etc.

I think my biggest problem in making a concrete decision is that I love everything about what I'm doing here and I thirst for knowledge. I want to know how to do EVERYTHING. I know this is impossible but the more information I can gather and more I can do the better (at least for my own satisfaction).

As of now I am leaning towards VFX and animation.  I am thinking that when I graduate I probably will not go seeking a modeling job, nor do I think I would like to be modeling for a living (even though I enjoy doing it).  So it might be better to focus my attentions towards the other two streams.  We'll see what happens.