Originally Posted by
TXTECHKA
I agree with that as well. I am about to graduate from Texas Tech with an Agricultural Economics degree and I have had a rediculously awesome time in college. Also when you go to a big school you can get all of your flying done on the side. You don't have to have a degree before you start flight instructing. I have about 2000TT and 500ME and I'm not graduating from school until may then I'm going to RAH. Join a frat, go on some road trips, go to mexico on a whim, get black listed from at least one sorority (just kidding), I have known a couple of guys that went to riddle and they weren't happy. You don't get any contacts or anything and plus an aviation science degree is worthless. If you go to an aviation school, you will probably be instructing after college for a while instead of going straight to a jet.
You're right, every non aviation university student will get a flying job right out of school! and have 2000 hrs and 500 me....not to mention all those UND, Riddle, and Purdue guys will be flight instructing for so much longer than say someone like....you! And they won't be able to flight instruct part time either because they don't have a degree.
And the contacts! Totally! I've haven't met one of the VP's from Delta or the directors of hiring from AWAC or ASA. JetBlue and UPS captains weren't on campus yesterday and I didn't even hear about anyone flying a CRJ sim. Man life here sucks. Not to mention that I guess I can't even have "fun" and do things on a whim. All because I went to an aviation university.
So tell me about soybeans.