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Old 01-21-2007 | 05:40 PM
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I am a junior at college and I am majoring at humanities. I plan to start my flight training in May. When people ask me what is my major I say humanities. They ask what is that? I say well it is a really broad area of study, but I just want the degree so that I can become an airline pilot. This is exactly what happened to me. By doing research on the internet I found out that it does not matter what bachelor's degree you get, but just so that you have one airlines don't care. So I scrolled down the list of majors and chose humanities, the easiest major. Now I regret my decision terribly. I understand that it won't matter, but bad things do happen. What if I get furloughed or lose my medical? What kind of a job would I go back to? Surely, humanities has nothing to do with my interest. I have been and I am passionate about aviation, and I cannot imagine being in a career other than aviation. It was very hard for me to accept this situation because I can graduate by next year. But I think it is now time for me to make a serious decision. I already e-mailed a couple of schools that offers both flight training and an aviation degree. No I am not talking about Riddle or Webster. These schools has an average tuition fee of around 13-17K per year excluding flight costs. I think I am pretty firm on my decision to do this. I want to have a good college experience and get out and say that it was worth it. If something bad happens for my flying carfeer I want to be able to make a career out of the aviation field. I would certainly appriciate any opinions regarding this issue.
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