Geo, honestly, people have put in a lot of effort to help you and you haven’t seem to have taken them up on any of it.
Did you look into online courses? Have you done the Coursera courses?
@NASA2014 most of those courses aren’t offered at my campus.
@romanigypsyeyes if i took online science courses I might miss out on the lab component.
Only General Biology 2 and earth science on that list are offered at my campus.
Well maybe wind power and crop production are offered at my campus @NASA2014 but I don’t know about the others.
At least try out Coursera courses. Not every course has a lab component and beside almost all my meteorology courses at Albany doesn’t have meteorology lab. Everything is lecture.
So take Earth Science?
Oh good grief. Not every science course has a lab component. Not every science course needs a lab component.
Not doing something because it doesn’t have everything you want is really just childish.
@NASA2014 so is there any weather forecasting done at all in your meteorology classes? Is programming involved in meteorology? Should I take a programming or computer class? Can forecasting be done by looking at maps and predictions?
@romanigypsyeyes when I talk about courses not being offered I have a problem with being envious of high school students who have access to those courses but meteorology isn’t even offered at most high schools. Will Chemistry involve some environmental science and some physics cover things related to meteorology such as temperature and mass?
Hopefully the labs and content excite me enough in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth science as these should have something related to the subjects that interest me or maybe i’ll find something new I like when taking these classes.
You’re not in high school anymore. Stop being jealous of high school kids.
Post 79 answers your last question.
If you can’t find it in a specific course, go out and learn it yourself. Resources have been posted here before.
Take initiative. Not everything is going to be handed to you on a silver platter.
I repeat again: you’re not in high school anymore. Education is done being spoon fed to you.
Don’t you have an academic advisor? You should be directing these questions to them. We have no idea what courses you need to graduate and what will put you behind.
Maybe when I take some of those courses listed above i’ll do course audits so they don’t eat up my financial aid maximum time frame hours.
Yes I have an academic advisor but they don’t always help even if i’m studying somethinget specific and there is a degree offered there or an articulation agreement to the four year university i’m wanting to transfer to. Sometimes it’s better to talk to the program chair for the subject i’m studying or a program advisor at the University i’m transfering to beca user general academic advisors seem to not be able to do everything.
@NASA2014 would Meteorology in emphasis on crop production or aviation be different then what Meteorology in general is? Do pilots and aviation people have to forecast the weather in any way the general meteorology people do? Can anyone answer my question about if taking a computer or programming class would be beneficial for Meteorology or the other fields that interest me? Do Communtiy colleges ever offer any courses where you learn GIS? GIS is used heavy in Geology. I know the first year Engineering class has programming involved in those courses which will be very helpful. I will try coursera. Thanks @NASA2014 for researching what my community college offers for my interests. Wind power class might be fun because I would be doing math or physics to predict the wind speeds.
The Aviation weather services course sounds like it offers the most close to what I’m looking for when learning meteorology because it looks like it involves weather forecasting. I knew about these courses being offered but they are only offered at certain campuses so I could temporarily move to the cities that offer them or take them online. I have heard of it being possible to be able to do labs for online science classes at home or wherever your doing online school work. If some of the data was already collected when forecasting the weather, put on the computer, and I analyzed it and did whatever other work was required to do the forecasting it’s possible it could all be done on the computer. It could also be possible I could individually collect data needed to forecast the weather, put it on an excel spreadsheet, and use that data to finish the forecasting. I know there is other energy courses and an environmental chemistry class at my campus which are specific topics related to environmental science, I just didn’t think I was allowed to take them since they are in another department. I will email the department that has other courses not related to my major, ask If I can take them, and do course audits on them so it won’t eat up my financial aid.
MODERATOR’S NOTE: I don’t think we can be of any more help to the OP. Closing thread.