Online Schools suck!

[Maximillian_Jenius]

I'm attending UVSC this year and the semester ends Friday. I should do well but I think that I need actually human interaction. Studying alone in your room and having to e-mail your professor to ask questions sucks. Think I might transfer to ERAU distance learning next year or after I'm done with Skymates and have all my ratings. Anyone have any suggestions for me?

[Dugie8]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

I'm attending UVSC this year and the semester ends Friday. I should do well but I think that I need actually human interaction. Studying alone in your room and having to e-mail your professor to ask questions sucks. Think I might transfer to ERAU distance learning next year or after I'm done with Skymates and have all my ratings. Anyone have any suggestions for me?

I feel your pain Max. I'm currently enrolled at the University of Phioenix, and while the work isn't hard or too time consuming, it is hard not sitting in class. I keep reading over stuff and not getting the nuts and bolts of the weeks "learning" agenda.

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by Dugie8

I feel your pain Max. I'm currently enrolled at the University of Phioenix, and while the work isn't hard or too time consuming, it is hard not sitting in class. I keep reading over stuff and not getting the nuts and bolts of the weeks "learning" agenda.

I *believe* that with ERAU distance learning you can both attend classes and do online work. Champcar should know more, thats the allure for me.

[Champcar]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

I *believe* that with ERAU distance learning you can both attend classes and do online work. Champcar should know more, thats the allure for me.

Yeah you can do both. I have taken a few online classes while I was in Prescott and they wernt too bad. I have trouble learning on my own but I also have trouble going to class...lol Im doing UVSC this Summer just to get money for flight. Riddle has classrooms all over the place.

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by Champcar

Yeah you can do both. I have take a few online classes while I was in Prescott and they wernt too bad. I have trouble learning on my own but I also have trouble going to class...lol Im doing UVSC this Summer just to get money for flight. Riddle has classrooms all the place.

Then sounds like I'll do that then. I'm not working in Dallas next year just flying. Either that or I'll just wait until I'm done at Skymates. With all my ratings in hand I would have my upper level classes completed.

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by Champcar

Yeah you can do both. I have take a few online classes while I was in Prescott and they wernt too bad. I have trouble learning on my own but I also have trouble going to class...lol Im doing UVSC this Summer just to get money for flight. Riddle has classrooms all the place.

Oh...and didn't you say that ERAU distance learning/online tution is only $6,000 a year?

[specialK]

hey max,
just curious what you are majoring in with them? I am thinking about doing UVSC on-line while I instruct but if it's a pain in the arse then i may reconsider. I know I shouldn't get an aviation degree but it just makes it easier to transfer all my flight credits and go with that major and be half way done. So, i'm not sure what to do yet.

[Champcar]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

Oh...and didn't you say that ERAU distance learning/online tution is only $6,000 a year?

Yup, its between 6 and 7K depending on books and stuff. Hell of a deal for a Riddle degree.

[Captain_Bob]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

...or after I'm done with Skymates and have all my ratings.

You are going to SkyMates?? I must have missed that discussion... When are you going to be out here in DFW?

Bob

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by specialK

hey max,
just curious what you are majoring in with them? I am thinking about doing UVSC on-line while I instruct but if it's a pain in the arse then i may reconsider. I know I shouldn't get an aviation degree but it just makes it easier to transfer all my flight credits and go with that major and be half way done. So, i'm not sure what to do yet.

Attending UVSC. Aeronautical Science major. I wouldn't discount UVSC,it all depends on you and how you learn. I'm a real people person I need that interaction more especially in an academic learning environment. I agree whole heartedly with Dugie8. If you think that you will excel sans direct professor and student interaction then go for it I say.

I just began to realize this,this week when I asked questions on here about holding procedures. I had no clue I was like yea this isn't for me.

See you Saturday!

[Tokyo007]

i'm also thinking about doing the uvsc thing, almost done with my 2 year degree at slcc. I know the aviation degree isn't the best idea but i'm sick of commuting to school.

*and I just re-read it and you already attended uvsc, my bad matthew*

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by Captain_Bob

You are going to SkyMates?? I must have missed that discussion... When are you going to be out here in DFW?

Bob

Wow..your really out of the loop. Yea...originally I was gonna attend ATP but their prices are insane I think there between $44k-54k due to fuel when they were Skymates current prices ($32-35k) maybe only a year and a half ago.

Talked to JH just this week about Andrew and I visiting Skymates for a "look see." If your avail you should come out when we have the dates finalized we will prolly have a M&G. My lease doesn't end until December so I will most likely be attending Jan 07.

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by Matthew_Chidester

i'm also thinking about doing the uvsc thing, almost done with my 2 year degree at slcc. I know the aviation degree isn't the best idea but i'm sick of commuting to school.

*and I just re-read it and you already attended uvsc, my bad matthew*

One of my ex's attended SLCC (prounouced slick)

[Tokyo007]

yup that's who I work for .. good old slick'

[bwade210]

I had to take some course through U.V.S.C. while I was on my internship and really enjoyed the classes and teachers I had! I only took 3 courses so my experience might not be relevant here!

[Captain_Bob]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

Skymates current prices ($32-35k)

Hey... make sure that bum Ryan locks those rates in for ya!

See ya when you make it out here!

Bob

[scoobs]

I have one more semester at good ole slick. Hey Matt who are the girls on your webpage?

[Tokyo007]

crud I was wondering why my hit counter went through the roof..(nothing like jetcareers of course but it's been getting mass hits today..)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mmmmmmmmmmmm... I can't remember her name but I think it was adriana lima.. I know it's kind of tacky but since i've been sick might as well goof around on the internet and work on my little web page. I pay for the webspace anyway.

(plus that video posted a few days ago had a good song.. probably illegal with what I did..you like?)

[Tokyo007]

we've probably run into each other then at slick if you're ever at the airport.. have we met?

mmm.. fact i'm getting nervous with my webpage getting mass hits like that LOL..uhh i'll take that off my profile..sorry everyone

[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by Matthew_Chidester

mmm.. fact i'm getting nervous with my webpage getting mass hits like that LOL..uhh i'll take that off my profile..sorry everyone

Ohh, be a MAN!

Let me guess, you only posted it on the billion user-strong international internet just so you can have somewhere to save the photo just in case you lost your local copy of the picture?

[rpatte1637]

I am sorry, but I have to disagree. I am in the final year of my BS in Aviation Sciences at UVSC and have been very happy with their courses. I am a returning student, after being out of school for 20 years and found that all the courses, general education and aviation, to be equal to the year and a half of classes I had at Georgia Tech back in the early 80's. Currently I am completing the third year of my studies here, while maintaining a 3.7 GPA and working full time at a Youth Detention Center in Atlanta Georgia. I agree that on-line studies may not be for everyone, but for myself it has been the best opportunity for me to get were I wanted to go and I would not change a thing at UVSC. I will also agree that there are times that online can be a little aggravating, when grade are not posted or replies not sent to allow you to know that work was received, as was the problem this semester with two of my upper level courses, but two out of 24 ain't bad. Good luck and don't give up, it took me 20 years to have the chance to come back to school, and believe me, a college education is worth every minute you spend there in the real world.

Scott Patterson

[Champcar]

Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius

Oh...and didn't you say that ERAU distance learning/online tution is only $6,000 a year?

I was wrong...its only $4,400 for tuituion. Here is the breakdown. http://www.erau.edu/er/financialaid/estcosts.html

[Tokyo007]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Ohh, be a MAN!

Let me guess, you only posted it on the billion user-strong international internet just so you can have somewhere to save the photo just in case you lost your local copy of the picture?

OKOKOKOK fine I put it back up.

lol no.. just i've been dealing with a sickness since like october (the ER room thinks it's IBS..but i've been just dealing with nausea 24/7 everyday) and with so much time stuck at home I got a little creative with frontpage and my webpage. it's a little dorky I know.

I just got nervous with 80+ hits in one day on my non-advertized' non-registered site so i wasn't sure who was looking at it (plus it's slightly illegal i'm sure with what I did.. photos music and all but then again the majority of myspace is also in that catagory *shrugs*)