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[CaptainChris87]

hello I have been accepted to UND and i am pritty set on going there, unless outside factors intervene....... just wondering how long will the Commercial Aviation course take to complete? how long is the PPL summer program, are there racial discrimination going on up there? and is AE and Horizon still picking up CFI's at ND, thanks everyone, and do they check senior year grades, you may IM me at OCsoph562, thanks y'll.

[stuckingfk]

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hello I have been accepted to UND and i am pritty set on going there, unless outside factors intervene....... just wondering how long will the Commercial Aviation course take to complete?

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7 Semesters. You could theoretically take 102 in the summer, 221 in the fall, 222 in the spring, 323 in the summer, and 325 in the Fall of 2006. So private to CMSEL in a year and a half.


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how long is the PPL summer program, are there racial discrimination going on up there?

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First of all, it should read "Is there." The private program starts in June and ends in August. It is during the 9 week session.

Not sure if I should answer the second question. You are implying that we are a bunch of hill billies just stepping into the 20th century.

I have yet to see any racial discrimination and haven't really heard of any either. ND has had military bases for years and that has brought its fair share of people that wouldn't normally be caught dead here, ie. Not everyone is white.


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and is AE and Horizon still picking up CFI's at ND, thanks everyone, and do they check senior year grades, you may IM me at OCsoph562, thanks y'll.

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If you are admitted you are admitted, so I don't think they will check your grades anymore.

Yes Horizon and AE have picked up a few instructors.

Here is a bit of advice, keep a 2.5 at UND, otherwise you can't fly. So PLEASE try to do well in English class your senior year and don't forget what you have learned. You will need it for 75% of all classes here.

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I have yet to see any racial discrimination and haven't really heard of any either. ND has had military bases for years and that has brought its fair share of people that wouldn't normally be caught dead here, ie. Not everyone is white.

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ask foxcow. there's plenty of hillbillies to suit anyone's fancy.

agree with the rest of what lucas has replied. if you take 102 in the summer, you're compressing an already-compressed course, but at least that way the weather is generally flyable every day. you'll be a better pilot flying every day rather than sporadically, too.

[UAL747400]

I think they still check grades from highschool until you graduate. In the letter I recieved, it said I was accepted pending my final transcript. So yeah, you should try and keep your grades up. If you already have a high GPA I wouldnt worry as much about grades. Might as well keep it up there though. Thats probly all they really look at anyway.

Tom

[Foxcow]

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Not sure if I should answer the second question. You are implying that we are a bunch of hill billies just stepping into the 20th century.

I have yet to see any racial discrimination and haven't really heard of any either. ND has had military bases for years and that has brought its fair share of people that wouldn't normally be caught dead here, ie. Not everyone is white.

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Q: What do you call 50,000 hill Billy's in one place?

A: Grand Forks


Lucas, no ifs, ands, or buts. Grand Forks is hillbilly central. I love going to the mall or Target or something and getting stared at because Im wearing a nice leather jacket instead of arcticat racing and Im wearing south pole jeans instead of carhart.

As far as discrimination goes, its the same anywhere you go.

My one major beef with these locals is that they are all so closed minded and naive

[CRJDriver]

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I love going to the mall or Target or something and getting stared at because Im wearing a nice leather jacket instead of arcticat racing and Im wearing south pole jeans instead of carhart.

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LOL!

[Screaming_Emu]

I did learn that if you go to the "mall" (doesn't count as a real mall because there is no food court) really makes me feel better about myself.

[JaceTheAce]

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I did learn that if you go to the "mall" (doesn't count as a real mall because there is no food court) really makes me feel better about myself.

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LOL! So true! Just go to any location in Grand Forks, it'll make you feel better about yourself. Especially WalMart LOL.

"Yah! Ya betchya I wear my Polaris snowmobile jacket as a fashion statement and drive my rusty 1984 Chevy Cutlass Sierra I bought from Rydell. Tonight me and my wife are gonna cook me up some Deer, watch NASCAR, and shovel snow outside our trailer"... oh...gotta love Grand Forks.

OMG, when I first got the job at Starbuck's in Grand Forks the locals would look at the menu like it was so foreign to them...and order a LARGE care-a-mell ma-chi-ah-DO (pronounced as spelled). I'm like "SAY WHAT? Oh, you mean a Venti Caramel Machiatto?" (said in the proper way). HAHAHA... "Would you like a plastic BEYG for that Lutefisk?" ...oh dear I am such a stereotypical Californian.

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"Would you like a plastic BEYG for that Lutefisk?"

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That is my figgest F'ing pet peeve about the accent here. It's a bAg people!! Not a freaking beggg.

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I did learn that if you go to the "mall" (doesn't count as a real mall because there is no food court) really makes me feel better about myself.

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LOL! So true! Just go to any location in Grand Forks, it'll make you feel better about yourself. Especially WalMart LOL.

"Yah! Ya betchya I wear my Polaris snowmobile jacket as a fashion statement and drive my rusty 1984 Chevy Cutlass Sierra I bought from Rydell. Tonight me and my wife are gonna cook me up some Deer, watch NASCAR, and shovel snow outside our trailer"... oh...gotta love Grand Forks.

OMG, when I first got the job at Starbuck's in Grand Forks the locals would look at the menu like it was so foreign to them...and order a LARGE care-a-mell ma-chi-ah-DO (pronounced as spelled). I'm like "SAY WHAT? Oh, you mean a Venti Caramel Machiatto?" (said in the proper way). HAHAHA... "Would you like a plastic BEYG for that Lutefisk?" ...oh dear I am such a stereotypical Californian.

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You guys are funny. I make fun of this place too, because I am from here. It does suck at times, but I guarantee I could make fun of some of the people in your town. One thing that is nice here, the top story in our paper everyday isn't someone getting raped, shot, beaten, etc.

Take California for example, been there numerous times and there isn't a shortage of freak shows to make fun of either. How about Iowa, hick this hick that everywhere I went.

Go on, keep em comin......

[UAL747400]

Hey now I'm from Iowa. You cant judge the whole state by the small cities.

I find that its all the same from state to state if your in somewhat of a big city.

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Hey now I'm from Iowa. You cant judge the whole state by the small cities.

I find that its all the same from state to state if your in somewhat of a big city.

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That was my point. You can't lump all the people in a state or city into one label.

[Screaming_Emu]

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"Would you like a plastic BEYG for that Lutefisk?"

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That is my figgest F'ing pet peeve about the accent here. It's a bAg people!! Not a freaking beggg.

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or every time I'm at the hockey game during the national anthem "But our fleeeg was still there"

Or in MSP you hear them talking about biggage claims.

Of course you can make fun of anybody from anywhere, we're just choosing to make fun of GFK In their defense most of the people here are really really nice.

[Foxcow]

the only "nice" thing that I can say about this place is that it takes only 5 minutes to get from place to place.

I love it when people say the people here are soooo nice. Where are these nice people? The locals are some of the most ill-mannered, selfish, inconsiderate, miserable people I have ever met. And the worst drivers too. You've heard of southern hospitality and all that jazz. I've never heard of northern hospitality....


Gotta love hillbillys

[CaptainChris87]

hmm.... I never heared anybody up at UND with an accent, as I and my mother have spoken to people working, and attending UND, they sound just like normal SO cal, americans. also a Junior girl named Britnnay, from Canada taking speech therapy called me to see how I was doing mustve been with new frosh oriention or something, I tell ya she had the cuuuuuuuutttteeesst voice over the phone I guess its a good sign, as I havent been able to meet up the complicated standards of O.C. So cal girls, the first person to CALL ME form ND was a chick with a cute voice. , its a good sign haha. if I cant get myself a OC Bleech blonde chick, ill jsut get myself a Midwestern cornfed North Dakotan Ice maiden

[montanapilot]

Kelly's word of wisdom for the day: Dont go to school for picking up chicks, go there for the education.

[JaceTheAce]

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the only "nice" thing that I can say about this place is that it takes only 5 minutes to get from place to place.

I love it when people say the people here are soooo nice. Where are these nice people? The locals are some of the most ill-mannered, selfish, inconsiderate, miserable people I have ever met. And the worst drivers too. You've heard of southern hospitality and all that jazz. I've never heard of northern hospitality....


Gotta love hillbillys

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Yes, slow ass drivers - especially the ladies driving their Buick's on the onramp to I-29... they drive 10MPH, then to 20...then to 25........then....to.....30...and then maybe by the time they reach the freeway portion they get up to 40...and I pass them having already accelerated to 75. A few times people have not expected someone to accelerate really fast while approaching them and they move over into my lane without any blinkers. I hate that!

Yes, the locals are nice people I would say... but just about as nice as anywhere else in the US. I would say that the older folk are uncultured (like one lady asked me if I speak "Mexican" because I told her I was half-mex and half white...I was like "WTF?!"..hello! we speak Spanish, not Mexican), too uptight, and resistant to change...in other words, non-progressive. I have found this to be true for the most part.

[JaceTheAce]

Oh yeah, one nice thing about this place is you don't have to worry about your car getting broken into. In addition to my car alarm, I used to put my Club on (for those who don't know, it's a steering wheel lock to prevent your car from getting stolen) - I did that for like a week until people started telling me that no one steals cars here.

In the 4 years lifetime of my car, it's gotten broken into FIVE (5) times in San Diego...just because it's a El Cheapo Civic.

[montanapilot]

While alot of the people from "hick states" seem behind the times its not necessarily a bad thing. I'd alot rather have grannies driving too slow over getting your ass mowed down by souped up civic (no offense Jace) or gettin caught in the middle of a gang war. (if you like all three just move to Phoenix )

However, I got away from my hick state ASAP, yet you fellas decided to move to one?

the accent wierds me out though, one of my profs is from minnesota and whenever she says "about" it comes out as "a boot" WTF?

[Screaming_Emu]

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Oh yeah, one nice thing about this place is you don't have to worry about your car getting broken into. In addition to my car alarm, I used to put my Club on (for those who don't know, it's a steering wheel lock to prevent your car from getting stolen) - I did that for like a week until people started telling me that no one steals cars here.

In the 4 years lifetime of my car, it's gotten broken into FIVE (5) times in San Diego...just because it's a El Cheapo Civic.

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actually, while I dont think that the club is necissary, cars do get broken into here sometimes. When I was here for a summer 2 years ago there were people that kept going into the parking lots around campus and busting up people's cars. Just ask UND_Flyer. They broke his window, broke off his turn signal selecor, took his stereo out and threw it into the bushes, then drove it to another parking spot and left it there.

Yea I just had a buddy who got his car broken into last night. Another friend had his car stolen from our fraternity parking lot last year. I would say it's a pretty big problem here.

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Yea I just had a buddy who got his car broken into last night. Another friend had his car stolen from our fraternity parking lot last year. I would say it's a pretty big problem here.

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Not a problem when compared to others. And the only reason cars are broken into on a regular basis, our police are inept and people don't think it can happen to them.

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And the only reason cars are broken into on a regular basis, our police are inept and people don't think it can happen to them.

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Agreed.

See ya at buck fitties.

[JaceTheAce]

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I'd alot rather have grannies driving too slow over getting your ass mowed down by souped up civic (no offense Jace)...

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My civic is one of those with the stickers all over (each sticker adds 5 Horsepower, even though I don't have those products in my car), big fart can muffler (because the louder it is the more HP is added), lowered (by cutting the stock springs), has neon lights all over, blue tinted lights which simulate real Xenon lights, Altezza lights, and a euro-style single windshield wiper (I just ripped off the right wiper). Oh, but did I do anything to the engine to add horsepower/torque? Um, no because the stickers should make it fast enough.

No, seriously, my Civic is all stock...nothing more than a little 1.6 liter 4-banger.

[UAL747400]

Thank god. As I was reading that I was like "oh my god thats one of those turds I hear driving around all the time." Im not a big fan of the import racing stuff unless they are actually fast. I absolutely hate ricers (kids that do cosmetic stuff but dont do anything mechanical to make their car faster or better). What ever, rant over.

Tom