Some of my awesome classmates:

Kyle Marcolini

Tad Nichol

Jena Macias

Davis Sprague

Kerline Moncy

Andrew O’Neil Smith

Nathan Paternoster

Max Molander

 

If you learn to make FX Plugins and Software Synth, check out Will Pirkle’s RackAFX and books

 

Software:

Lots of free plugins

Spectral Processing Plugins 

8 bit Plugin

 

Samples

Freesound.org

Impulse Response Collection 1

Impulse Response Collection 2

Multitrack Download Library