Airlines and college
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Aero_Engineer
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Go to college and finish it, this industry as you may already know is a very shaky and unstable one so you better have backups for the sad day of getting furloughed or even not getting hired, I am currently a senior Aerospace Engineering major and training to become a commercial pilot, I don't have a clear idea and vision of my futures like the ones who want to become doctors, nurses or teachers because I can't say for sure if there will be a flying job in an airline for me down the road. Anyhow a college degree also gives you an advantage in getting hired so whatever it is just suck it up and finish your high school then college, there is no such a thing as school is hard and I can't study, I teach students like you as my part time job and I always tell them WHEN THERE IS A WILL THERE IS WAY so if you really want to be a successful pilot you'll do anything to become one including studying hard.
If I can be any help to you with your studies just PM me and we'll talk.
Armen
If I can be any help to you with your studies just PM me and we'll talk.
Armen
BrettInLJ
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I barely made it through high school, but ended up graduated with latin honors in college. It's a completely different learning environment so if its the environment of HS you hate rather then not being able to handle academics, you may find yourself doing much better at university.
im the second one, just struggling a bit
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I barely made it through high school, but ended up graduated with latin honors in college. It's a completely different learning environment so if its the environment of HS you hate rather then not being able to handle academics, you may find yourself doing much better at university.
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im the second one, just struggling a bit
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I barely made it through high school, but ended up graduated with latin honors in college.
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And I know a lot of people take college more seriously, since you are the one paying the bills.
And since you can choose your courses and areas of study, it really is much different from high school. You can take classes that interest you and that in turn will result in better grades because you want to learn it as opposed to having to learn it.
Here's one piece of advice: look at the student to faculty ratio of the college you would like to go to. When I studied engineering at ERAU, the student to faculty ratio was 7:1; my friend who was an EE at University of Arizona had an engineering staff that was about 30:1 and for his core classes (english, econ, math) that ratio was somewhere like 60:1. His English class had 120 people in it, and some were in class via video, since they all couldn't fit in the classroom!
What this means is that with a lower student to faculty ratio, your classes are smaller and the instructors are more available for one-on-one study sessions. Also, get a study group together. My friend Neil and I cooperated and graduated, and I know neither of us would have been able to do it without the other. Also, I spent many, many hours in my advisor's office getting extra help with my homework.
By being smart, it doesn't mean you have to be book smart; it means you have to be able to make best use of all your resources to get the best education you can.
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im the second one, just struggling a bit
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I barely made it through high school, but ended up graduated with latin honors in college.
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And I know a lot of people take college more seriously, since you are the one paying the bills.
And since you can choose your courses and areas of study, it really is much different from high school. You can take classes that interest you and that in turn will result in better grades because you want to learn it as opposed to having to learn it.
Here's one piece of advice: look at the student to faculty ratio of the college you would like to go to. When I studied engineering at ERAU, the student to faculty ratio was 7:1; my friend who was an EE at University of Arizona had an engineering staff that was about 30:1 and for his core classes (english, econ, math) that ratio was somewhere like 60:1. His English class had 120 people in it, and some were in class via video, since they all couldn't fit in the classroom!
What this means is that with a lower student to faculty ratio, your classes are smaller and the instructors are more available for one-on-one study sessions. Also, get a study group together. My friend Neil and I cooperated and graduated, and I know neither of us would have been able to do it without the other. Also, I spent many, many hours in my advisor's office getting extra help with my homework.
By being smart, it doesn't mean you have to be book smart; it means you have to be able to make best use of all your resources to get the best education you can.