Age Category Poll

[XXX]

7 hours ago, Mooneymite said:

I put 6 kids through the colleges/universities of their choice...it's called going broke by degree.  

While I resented the highway robbery of the tuition and required books scam, what really bothers me in retrospect was what they were "taught" and what they were never taught.  These weren't community colleges; they were supposedly "good schools".  Wait until your daughters come home filled with the fruits of "women's studies" and all the other social engineering crap!  Wait until your sons come home and explain what they were taught about Viet Nam and other revisionist history!

Higher education is more brain washing than education.  YMMV

 

There is a great book by Cleon Skousen, written around 1950 that I had my kids read before they went to college. Mr. Skousen was an FBI agent assigned to keep tabs on the American communist party. He wrote the book after retireing as a warning to the American people of what was coming. My kids were educated about "education" before the professors could get in their heads. 

I have two in college currently, the oldest will be out in December. The youngest just started Monday. I actually bought the Mooney to travel from FL to OH to visit my daughter. Made the first trip last week and the old "F" performed better than expected! I love my Mooney!

[N601RX]

I have the pleasure of working with 6-8 engineering coop and intern students each semester.  I know a couple have family that foots the entire bill.  There are also a couple that don't get any help and depend on their coop pay and student loans to pay the entire amount.  We have even had a few who coop every other semester and then try to intern 20 hrs a week durring the school semester.  We have one young single parent with 3 kids who does both and always wants to work extra.  The most common arrangement seems to be a combination of parent help, loans and the student working.

 

 

 

 

[Hank]

When I picked up a part time job towards the end of college, it forced me to manage my time better, and surprisingly my grades improved. Not sure who was more surprised, me or Dad!

[Bravoman]

My oldest figured it out and got an Air Force  full ride scholarship at Auburn. He is an engineering student there. He'll owe Uncle Sam a few years, maybe up to 10 if he gets a pilot slot, but there are worse things. I for one wish I went that route. Several of my buddies in college did and had a great time in the service.

[N601RX]

We also have an engineer who we will just call Bob who had just graduated from college and worked his 1st year while his girlfriend was still in school.  Around  the end of December he was starting to think about taxes and renfunds but then realized there was not going to be a refund that year.  On the last day of the year he took his then girlfriend down to the justice of the peace and said I Do without telling any of the parents.  He got a nice refund and then used that refund for the official wedding/honeymoon the next fall. 30 years later the parents still don't know about the 1st wedding.

[1964-M20E]

21 minutes ago, Bravoman said:

My oldest figured it out and got an Air Force  full ride scholarship at Auburn. He is an engineering student there. He'll owe Uncle Sam a few years, maybe up to 10 if he gets a pilot slot, but there are worse things. I for one wish I went that route. Several of my buddies in college did and had a great time in the service.

Good luck to your son.

That was my plan and I got my PPL on my own while in engineering hopping to get a pilot slot.  Spent 4 weeks at Lackland too boot and no pilot slot.  I opted out of the AF I felt the engineering course load and the extra 3 hours for ROTC would be too much and I wanted to get school over at that point I had already spent enough of my own money playing around.

The good news was I ended up with engineering degree and PPL.

 

[Hank]

26 minutes ago, N601RX said:

We also have an engineer who we will just call Bob who had just graduated from college and worked his 1st year while his girlfriend was still in school.  Around  the end of December he was starting to think about taxes and renfunds but then realized there was not going to be a refund that year.  On the last day of the year he took his then girlfriend down to the justice of the peace and said I Do without telling any of the parents.  He got a nice refund and then used that refund for the official wedding/honeymoon the next fall. 30 years later the parents still don't know about the 1st wedding.

I've been called many things, but never "Bob." And I've not been married anywhere near thirty years!

(but it dies sound like something I would have done . . . ). 

[Bravoman]

10 minutes ago, 1964-M20E said:

Good luck to your son.

That was my plan and I got my PPL on my own while in engineering hopping to get a pilot slot.  Spent 4 weeks at Lackland too boot and no pilot slot.  I opted out of the AF I felt the engineering course load and the extra 3 hours for ROTC would be too much and I wanted to get school over at that point I had already spent enough of my own money playing around.

The good news was I ended up with engineering degree and PPL.

 

Thank you, I have my fingers crossed for him on the pilot slot. He got his ppl when he was 17(which I was happy to pay for by the way!) and I understand that will be something in his favor. 

[kpaul]

10 hours ago, Bravoman said:

Thank you, I have my fingers crossed for him on the pilot slot. He got his ppl when he was 17(which I was happy to pay for by the way!) and I understand that will be something in his favor. 

Flight hours work into the equation more so then the certificate.  Hopefully, he is still logging hours when he can.  The AF just announced a deficit in fighter pilots, which is not really a surprise after the massive cuts followed by airlines ramping up hiring.   

[Mooneymite]

12 hours ago, Bravoman said:

My oldest figured it out and got an Air Force  full ride scholarship at Auburn. He is an engineering student there. He'll owe Uncle Sam a few years, maybe up to 10 if he gets a pilot slot, but there are worse things. I for one wish I went that route. Several of my buddies in college did and had a great time in the service.

Great program.  Congratulations.

The Air Force has both a reserve and a guard program which are significantly different from "regular" Air Force.  Make sure your son explores both (thoroughly!) as alternative career paths.

For young people looking to fly Air Force and pursue another career, the reserve program is an incredible deal.

 

[Hank]

13 hours ago, Bravoman said:

My oldest figured it out and got an Air Force  full ride scholarship at Auburn. He is an engineering student there. He'll owe Uncle Sam a few years, maybe up to 10 if he gets a pilot slot, but there are worse things. I for one wish I went that route. Several of my buddies in college did and had a great time in the service.

Let me know when you come down to visit. I'm about a 40 minute drive to campus, and have a rental condo by the Vet school (occupied right now), so we are in town regularly.

War Eagle!  --BSME, Auburn

Edited September 2, 2016 by Hank

[Bravoman]

1 hour ago, Mooneymite said:

Great program.  Congratulations.

The Air Force has both a reserve and a guard program which are significantly different from "regular" Air Force.  Make sure your son explores both (thoroughly!) as alternative career paths.

For young people looking to fly Air Force and pursue another career, the reserve program is an incredible deal.

 

Thanks very much! My original flight instructor and still very close friend is Air Force alum ( a 130 nav) and had same advice for him and has been over that with him.

 

regards, Frank

[Bravoman]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

Let me know when you come down to visit. I'm about a 40 minute drive to campus, and have a rental condo by the Vet school (occupied right now), so we are in town regularly.

War Eagle!  --BSME, Auburn

Thanks Hank,I will definitely take you up on that. We are going to be coming down this year to make sure he stays out of trouble since he just moved into the Fiji house!

Edited September 2, 2016 by Bravoman

[Stetson20]

Wow this thread took on a life of its own! 

[Mooneymite]

Mooney owners are such interesting people, their interests tend to wander all about.

Thread drift.....?  No.  Just lots of interesting "asides". 

Maudrauder can usually provide pictures to suport most asides that give visual representation of exactly what anyone is talking about.

[Hank]

4 hours ago, Bravoman said:

Thanks Hank,I will definitely take you up on that. We are going to be coming down this year to make sure he stays out of trouble since he just moved into the Fiji house!

AUO is a nice field, with a beautiful new FBO. The original one across the field, used by students, will soon be torn down and a new one built further from the runway. As a transient, you may be able to park by the FBO. Longer visits may sentence you to the tiedowns past the fuel pump. I was there when I first moved back, while waiting on hangars at all area fields.

[aviatoreb]

I have heard that if you walk backwards, it runs your odometer backwards in your head, and then you get younger.

[Raptor05121]

I was expecting an 15-18, 18-24, 24-29, etc

All I was left with is under 30 lol

[Ned Gravel]

Just now, Raptor05121 said:

I was expecting an 15-18, 18-24, 24-29, etc

All I was left with is under 30 lol

Yah.  I don't think those ages really count do they?   

[Raptor05121]

Am I the youngest on here? Just turned 25

[MHemperly]

On September 1, 2016 at 7:22 AM, 201er said:

Wow you guys are old.

I'm so glad we all have at least one thing in common.... Age not being that one  haha

[MHemperly]

14 minutes ago, Ned Gravel said:

Yah.  I don't think those ages really count do they?   

I just turned 30... I've always been told I was wise for my age. Maybe that's why most my friends have 10 plus years one me. The new generation leaves me shaking my head 

 

mike

[Ned Gravel]

Just now, MHemperly said:

I just turned 30... I've always been told I was wise for my age. Maybe that's why most my friends have 10 plus years one me. The new generation leaves me shaking my head 

 

mike

Uh Mike?    You are the "new" generation..........

.......As seen from the eyes of a 60+ retired soldier.

[MHemperly]

Just now, Ned Gravel said:

Uh Mike?    You are the "new" generation..........

.......As seen from the eyes of a 60+ retired soldier.

Haha I should say newer then me... I spent most of my time growing up with my dad and grandfather.   

Mike

[Piloto]

Well I can't complain. I remember tuning into Sputnik 20Mhz beacon signal, never got it. The big fan fare of Yuri Gagarin first man in space. And of course Neil Armstrong on the Moon. Compared to previous centuries the 20th century is a hard one to beat in term of achievements. Glad I was there. Looking forward to the 22nd to meet Mr. Spock.

Live Long and Prosper