College online?

jhugz said:
That's all I'm doing it for. If I do something other then flying then I'll go back to school and get a MBA or something. Most degree's are pretty useless especially if you don't have any experience in the field.
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Experience is key
 
To just check a box than yes aviation is ok. My point was simply to inform. I think one the problems I see with students who want to be pilots is that they dont leave theselves a backup if aviation doesnt work out. While experience matters, a bachelors in busniess admin, with no experience, can still get you a job as a entry level manager trainee at many retail outlets. As far as going back and getting an MBA. Having an degree from mountain state in aviation will make it hard to get into a decent MBA program. Not all MBA degrees are the same. My point was to simply educate a young kid to get a useful degree that he can fall back on. I think thats one of the biggest problems with unversity setting training is the aviation degree. For some like JHugz, his situation it makes sense to get it to farther his career, but for someone just getting into this career, be smart and go for something outside aviation for your degreee.
 
surreal1221 said:
Ah, don't be so naive now.

Some of us who did school online were in a uniform for the years traditionally known as "college years," having one hell of a time without the overbearing Professors or even parents threatening you about cutting off your credit cards.

Best of both worlds really.

I work right now with some kids who are 21 or 22 and in school full time - and yet they act like they're spoiled rotten 12 year olds. I wouldn't have fit in if that's what the majority of college kids were up to even 7 years ago. Just not my kind of environment.
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Oh very true ... my comments were more for young kids out of high school who are a different stage in their life. If I were trying to get an education now, hell yeah I would go the online route.
 
Murdoughnut said:
The guys saying it's great aren't aware of the awesome times they missed out on. College was the greatest time of my life - would have been a shame to have given it up to take classes online.
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That depends. How do you know the guys saying "it's great" aren't working full time jobs and trying to get the education on the side? I went to a brick and mortar college back in the 90s, and like others, it wasn't the huge "be all, end all" some people make it out to be. I met my wife there, and I got a couple of credits that transferred. That's what I took away from the "college experience." I'm enjoying the on-line classes because I can do it at my pace (rather than being totally left behind by a professor that talks 90 mph in a thick Indian accent or the other extreme: a professor that caters to the slow wits in class that don't study and can't comprehend who Beethoven is in a "music appreciation" class), and I don't have to quit my job and go back to school.

If it weren't for on-line learning, there's no WAY I'd be able to go back and get my degree.
 
Inverted25 said:
While experience matters, a bachelors in busniess admin, with no experience, can still get you a job as a entry level manager trainee at many retail outlets.
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Perhaps, but I had a job as a theme park supervisor with only a high school diploma. That was after working a whopping 6 months at the park, too. With experience, you could probably even get the same job, if not something better. If I were the hiring manager with a choice between someone that has a degree fresh out of college with no experience and someone with retail/whatever-you're-managing experience, I'm going with the person that's been there, done that rather than the guy that gets it in theory. YMMV, but I know a lot of people with hospitality degrees that can't get anywhere until they've actually got some time working in the industry under their belts.
 
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