You're in animation? How hard is it? I'm in a photoshop class and I can make some really cool gifs but does that have anything to do with true animation?

gifs always have something to do with animation ;)
It's pretty cool, there's a good mix of art and computery stuff. so far we've learnt the basics of C and Python programming languages, and how to model and rig a character for animation, and also how to realistically animate bouncing spheres. :D

Oh, you're in 3d animation? Thats great! I've tried using blender but the far.thest I've gone was making a cube with a cylinder jutting on its side.

Hehe I never managed to figure out Blender. The program we use at Uni is called Maya.