On a serious note. I come across as an ass on here because of the attitudes, and I realize that is a contradiction in itself. I grew up in small town ND, went to both UND and NDSU, (turned down a full ride to ASU and ERAU). While ND is not the most glamorous place in the world, it is home to me, and about 600,000 other hard working, honest people. I spent 3 years at UND as a student, and 3 years as an instructor. I like to think I did my part to make UND Aero a good place to go to school and I'm fairly sure everyone of my students, stage checkeees, and such would say the same. But to come here, see a forum for just UND and think
great some place to catch up with old students, friends, etc (I'm Sorry) and all I see is
whining and moaning (awww) about nothing, yup it irks
(oooh) me.
Am I going to change these attitudes, nope, (you got that right hun) not in the least,
life will straighten them out on it's own (really?). It is one thing to not like where you are and mumble and grumble about, we have all been there done that, got the tee shirt. But to moan and groan so much that leads, instructors and student services people
know you by name, thats something else. (• me I'm famous) If it is so ungodly horrible, don't let the door hit you on the ass, on the way out.
I cringe everytime I have to do a LAX or PDX trip.
These people, to me, are snobs, could care less about you, do not do their jobs well, etc(sorry sugar cup cakes). BUT,
I don't complain, I say hello, good day, thank you, good bye, etc, (being fake? Get up stand up, do't give up the fight, city style) tip the van driver that was 20 minutes late picking us up (too nice aren't ya, 'good' is dumb you say?), tip the maids that try to burst into the room at 1 in the afternoon while we are sleeping, on and on and on.
If it were just some college kids blowing off steam, I can see that, but these guys making the
most noise, (this place needs it, too quiet) are going to be professional pilots here fairly shortly and
these kind of "entitlement" attitudes, distain for rules and authority (oh really), do not go away very quickly,
not who I want to be sharing the sky (life is not what you exactly what you want it seems) with, or have controlling me in and out of EWR's airspace.
I guess I take this kind of stuff about UND and ND a bit personnaly (ok here I truly would appologize, but you let people know and don't keep it in, otherwise really, I told you I love giving people ****, I love stirring things up as so do you, don't tell me you wouldn't want to insult my arse for a run 
hehe) as Im sure you would if it was your home state and town, and it is not so much the complaining,
I get that, it's the thought process that being from Cali, or NYC or a foreign country makes you better (but it does 
)than other people. UND is offering a great oppurtunity and
opens doors earlier in this career field than any other aero program, hands down. You would think there would be a bit more pride (agreed, but we pay, pride is for our own work, we succeed through college, they just don't hand us a diploma, they give us the opportunity to learn, and yes great facilities) and appreciation for those that laid that ground work for the current students.
College is about, making friends,
drinking way too much beer (alcoholics, thats all that matters here, drinking, not the girls, the music, the atmosphere, the keg matters!) in relation to the distance to the
nearest bathroom (drinking till puking I assume, a typical I have nothing better to do midwest culture),
nailing dorm furniture (was never destructive for having fun, more creative, where is your respect to UND facilities, and workers that cleaned that up) to the ceiling, etc. You came to the
school for two reasons, a good education and to have fun (yeah, didn't we all?), UND offers both (what fun? are you serious, where, name it), if you are willing to think
outside the box (been thinking about ya box too much babe) and broaden your horizons. Sitting around pissing and
moaning about snow, simplot, (looks like those damn foreginers again, and their demands, arghh) (find something original like one of the school colors being pink!) doesn't seem too fun to me, but riding the snocat
(snowcat? arctic cat? polaris) trails up and down the I29 corridor,
(name me one place that rents this stuff so I can put my money into this places economy and do that for fun) or ice fishing (don't have the fire directly on the ice!) etc does. It is there,
its not what the big cities offer (no it is not, and that is what my problem is, sorry it bugs you), but it is there
and it is every bit as fun, especially with a large group of people (agreed), 10 cases of Bud ice, 30 inner tubes and nothing but a Saturday afternoon to float away with...
(done that, been there, good times, and those are the only good things I have about this place, oh wait though, tubing was in MN, so was MSP, oops, sorry ND)
