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Originally Posted by ryane946 (Post 144492)

College was the best time of my life!

Why would I tell other people to go to a school like Embry Riddle (with their 1 to 9 girl to guy ratio) when they can go to a normal college (save lots of money) and have the best time of their life.
No thank you Embry Riddle.

Why would someone want to go to school in the middle of nowhere in North Dakota. North Dakota has less than 1 million residents. I don't even think it deserves to be a state. My college life was full of adventures in the mountains, rivers, the great outdoors, large cities, cool towns.... There was always something to do. Can you say that about UND? No. You can't. Trust me, I have 2 good friends who went there. One regretted it and left after the first year, the second stayed with it but always b*tched about North Dakota.

Purdue, I can't really knock them. They are a regular, D1 school, with a very NORMAL campus and student population outside of aviation. I think majoring in aviation is a mistake.

You my friend are a moron. ****. Quit talking about things you have no experience with. All you have is hear-say. "I heard, I heard, I heard" thats all you got. So until you experience it, ****!

wow, so this is a debate about aviation universities? i'll stay completely out of this one, but wow.

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Originally Posted by CaptainMark (Post 144496)

i majored in aviation....man, i made a huge mistake....all those MTV parties on the beach...wet t-shirt contests...penrods...the oyster pub...sugar shack...yearround sunshine.....and then to top it all off when i retire at 60 i'll have 25 years as a widebody captain at FDX...
HUGE MISTAKE! :D

not so fast mark, you mean 65:D

Seems like most folk here went to ERAU, UND or purdue. am i the only Lewis U (chicago) grad on this sight? btw, whoever said that North Dakota shouldn't be a state....bite your tongue!

unless your family is super rich, I would say go to a normal school and get your ratings as cheap as you can get them. Pilots are in such high demand right now it doesnt matter what name is on your degree. I know riddle and UND grads that are paying back 800-1200 dollars a month in student loans, that is nearly what you make in the first year. I went to Indiana State and loved every minute of it, kick ass school, and awesome flight training. If your going to a university, try to find one that still has part 61 training, at Indiana State there were two flight school "contractors" that forced competetion to keep the prices reasonable.

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Originally Posted by TXTECHKA (Post 144498)

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.

ND sucks alright, but it's worth the flying and the ladies. All blondes up here. UND has both the flying and the college atmosphere to experience, unlike riddle. Plus if you work for an airline up here (like me), you can get leave every once in a while.

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Originally Posted by oldveedubs (Post 144573)

if i hear one more damn thing about their CRJ sim or purdues 727, i think i am going to cut my nuts off, hit someone across the face with them, and hurry my ass to the hospital to repair the damage. My god, flying a "sim" in a "rigorous" college program still doesnt have near the value of actually going out there and flight instructing, or flying some charter for a year or two.

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Originally Posted by ScaryKite (Post 144579)

you're right too! i think teaching C172 systems and loading approaches into the KLN 94 for two more years would help me alot more than getting even one hour in a level 6 crj/727 sim.

I went to UND and I don't think it was much more expensive than going to a different university. I had the tuition receprocity though. But I do have to say don't make quick judgements, although it is very very cold up there it was still definitely fun, people there party just as much if not more than other schools and I liked that it was not all aviation, most of my close friends were NOT aviation majors. And as for having to flight instruct for long... I flight instructed for only 6 months, not at UND but you don't have to instruct at the same place you go to school at. so I don't really have an opinion about what is better but I thought i should stick up for UND because you shouldn't judge it if you don't know anything about it.