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Neil- I know you majored in aviation managment. Did you find it hard to do your work and fly on the side? If you did this, would it still be possible to have some type of social life? Also, once college starts, when would you suggest starting flight training?
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Taking flying lessons on the side is very manageable, privided you budget your time wisely. What I would advise you do is make your lessons like another class. Schedule lessons for the same time every other day, like classes are scheduled at Purdue.
In other words a sample schedule for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays would go like this:
9:30-10:20: Math 161
11:30-12:20: English 101
1:30-2:20: Flying Lesson at Lafayette Aviation
3:30 - 4:20: Physics 219
Just build your flying lessons into your schedule as you have a break (and enough time to get to the airport) and treat it as another class.
I'm very sure that you can have a lively social life while taking a full course load and flying on the side. Just budget your time wisely. If you don't have a social life, it's because you don't want one.
If you're a freshman I would wait a week or two before really delving into the whole flying thing. You may want to get to know campus a little more; get to know some of clubs on campus and make friends outside of aviation. I don't know about you, but having friends from diverse majors and backgrounds is more interesting to me than just talking about airplanes all day (as fun as that may be).
I hope that I've been helpful here. Maybe Jason can back me up here and provide some insight that I haven't provided.
Have a good one!