UND Aerospace and work ethic.
Here's the thing. When I finally transferred to the main campus I was SO EXCITED. This excitement was quickly eroded away over the first year and a half because of the complete and total bullshit that encompassed my transfer. Yes it was entirely my fault, but YES I WAS ASSURED BY NUMEROUS HIGH UP PEOPLE AT UND THAT IT WOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM! But alas, I ended up being FORCED to take 2 years off of flight training. 2 years off during a critical moment (right after you learn all your instrument stuff but right before you actually take the test for it.
So here I am after "restarting" last spring which was my first flying semester at the main campus. Its been an utter nightmare. Trying to relearn things that I know without having any instruction on them and despite briefly explaining my situation I still get looked at like I'm a moron when I don't know such simple things. I DO KNOW THESE THINGS! I JUST HAVEN'T USED THEM FOR 2 YEARS!
Still this pilot factory is less than sympathetic and no one seems interested in helping me out without some sort of "I'm better than you" type of attitude. Such comments made by flight instructors to the extent of, 'I'm not going to teach it to you, you need to know this' typically leave me baffled and frustrated yet this is all old news.
My real issue for venting is that at UND Aerospace let alone this campus the student is second. For many flight students where flying is there only priority, perhaps this doesn't become as noticeable. I however am a double major and am trying my ASS OFF to make the cycling club more than just a memory when I leave. If I have a flight scheduled at a specific time, it is scheduled there for a reason. I'm not simply sitting around in my dorm room playing Halo in my free time, I'm actually #$@*ing doing sh*t. So Mr. flight instructor(S) (because they all do it) when you call me up to reschedule my flights the night before because YOU have to work at the SOF desk or because YOU have something else that is invariably more important to do, don't get annoyed with me when I cannot commit to YOUR schedule. It would be 100% unacceptable for me to call you and suggest that I cannot make a flight because I have to work. You may even look down on me and offer some condescension about how "I need to make flying a top priority" or some other such nonsense. But whenever you have made a scheduling error and "must" work at a SECOND job ALSO for UNDAerospace, I am the one who MUST adapt.
You are a flight instructor at THE "premiere" aviation school in the world. What, exactly are your top priorities?
sigh... say what you will, but know that I'm a sensitive fellow.