PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Education: What A Levels and Degree (if any)?!(Apr '09)
Old 10th January 2003 | 11:21
  #54 (permalink)  
???pax
 
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
From: St Albans (Herts UK)
From a graduate non-aviators perspective,

If you want to gain a degree in a subject that interests you, and you enjoy parties, booze etc, then go for it.

Do NOT waste those three years away though. There will undoubtedly be thousands of others doing the same thing and, if you do go, you need to make sure that you partake in some kind of activity that looks good on the CV.

It's so easy to do the typical student thing and become a daytime-TV guru and anybody who is interviewing you for a job will work on the assumption that you are a Bargain Hunt and Columbo expert. It's down to you to do something and if it is relevant to your intended career path then that's even better. If you can get to a UAS, give it a look. I had a couple of friends who used to dash off at weekends and do loads of flying and I envied them for it. I think the beer was cheap too!

Graduates are ten-a-penny these days so do not work on the assumption that a degree from any Uni will sort you out. Uni is an experience but it is not the real world. You will meet loads of new friends and many will last you a lifetime, but when it is all over you will look back and think of it as a phase in your life that you have passed through.


Best of luck.
???pax is offline