NROTC service selection question

[SynixMan]

Allow me to clarify what I was saying. You should want to do your best, always. I have no issue with someone who switched away from a technical major after they realized it wasn't going to work out. That's just good headwork. <2.0 in anything is grounds for getting kicked in the nuts. However, when you're initially picking your major, don't sell yourself short and take an easy path thinking it will set you up for aviation success. A million things can happen between now and then.

 

[Zazzarito]

Yeah I understand that. I want to be an Aviation major simply for that fact that I enjoy flying, it's still a higher end degree, but something that I can do, while still enjoying it. Plus even if I don't get a SNA spot, I'll still have my private and commercial pilot's license if I want to fly after retirement

 

[bert]

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The aviation community is filled with a shitload of different majors and backgrounds, and most of them mean jack shit come day one of API. But avoiding a technical major because you're worried about your GPA? How about you don't suck in class instead. Its not going to get any easier as you go forward. Flight school has been way harder than engineering school.

If you are crappy at math and calc didn't "make sense" to you, beating your head against a technical major will do you no good. Major in something you have a chance to do well in and that you can potentially use to help yourself earn a decent living (in a job that won't make you set yourself on fire at the thought of another day of work) in case you don't stay in the Navy forever.

And you won't stay in the Navy forever.

 

[squorch2]

it's still a higher end degree

No. It isn't.

 

[Zazzarito]

No. It isn't.

What I meant by higher end degree, is it's still beneficial to me should I pursue a career outside the military and with more of a math and science base compared to say, political science. While NROTC does require 2 semesters of Calc and physics, I'll do even more for my major.

 

[mid1510]

What I meant by higher end degree, is it's still beneficial to me should I pursue a career outside the military and with more of a math and science base compared to say, political science. While NROTC does require 2 semesters of Calc and physics, I'll do even more for my major.

What exactly does your "higher end aviation" degree do for you outside the military that will not require more school?

 

[Zazzarito]

Maybe my choice of wording was unclear. In a nutshell, what I meant by higher end was more along the ideas of the higher ended tier levels. It's not a tier 1 (engineering), but not a tier 3 like political science and history. Being a tier 2, it will still challenge me mathematically and with the physics because I'll have to be able to understand the basics of avionics to keep myself from dying while in the air 3 times a week, but not bog me down into something I don't enjoy with large amounts of math like the engineering degrees would.
That's more along the lines of what I meant.

 

[KBayDog]

I'll graduate with my single and multi-engine commercial license that many degrees won't give you.

You mean the same certificates you'll get with an Underwater Basketweaving degree if you bust your ass and wing as an Aviator in a multi-engine aircraft?

 

[Zazzarito]

Yeah, but I rephrased my post above to reflect what I originally meant instead of going off on some rant that will get me no where for the fact that y'all know a lot more than I do with all this stuff

 

[phrogpilot73]

Yeah, but I rephrased my post above to reflect what I originally meant instead of going off on some rant that will get me no where for the fact that y'all know a lot more than I do with all this stuff

What KBayDog was referring to, is that when you wing - you're given the option to take a "military competency exam". Pass it, and you get all those certificates - for a lower tuition cost than a degree that is essentially a BS degree mill degree. I'll clue you in on something - if things don't work out in the Navy, employers aren't beating down the door to hire guys with an Aviation major... No matter what your faculty advisers are telling you.

 

[Zazzarito]

Yeah I understand. I thought better of where I was going with that discussion earlier for the fact of things like the military competency exam. I like the degree mainly cause I'll have fun flying in college and still get the experience if I'm not selected for SNA or NFO.
The business side of the degree will help because I'm looking into possibly having a private airline business for mission trips (has nothing to do with the Navy side of things but it could help me later on in life with the business management experience in the airline industries). Extra experience can't hurt

 

[helolumpy]

Yeah I understand. I thought better of where I was going with that discussion earlier for the fact of things like the military competency exam. I like the degree mainly cause I'll have fun flying in college and still get the experience if I'm not selected for SNA or NFO.
The business side of the degree will help because I'm looking into possibly having a private airline business for mission trips (has nothing to do with the Navy side of things but it could help me later on in life with the business management experience in the airline industries). Extra experience can't hurt

Dude, quit while you're ahead... too late. Just stop trying to justify a particular degree.

 

[Zazzarito]

Alright. Well this conversation had taking a much different turn than the original one. Thanks for the help of clearing things up and yeah, I'll stop before I continue to make a fool of myself.

 

[KBayDog]

BTW, not to pile on, but "Midshipmen" is plural.

 

[Zazzarito]

BTW, not to pile on, but "Midshipmen" is plural.

Well that's an easy fix