I've one thing to say being a graduate from the 4+ year degree on-campus program at MSU.......Everyone is saying that graduates, being from the on- campus OR correspondence classes, CANNOT say they are Meteorologists!!!!! This is absolutely crazy......if any of you have not been through the programs, either one, than you need to take a chill pill.....just because we, MSU graduates, do not take Differential Equations and Calculus 1-4 we cannot call ourselves meteorologist. Let me ask YOU a question.....how many times during your forecasting a day do you whip out the DE's and Calc equations to come up with YOUR forecasts for your on-air presentations.....NONE!!!!!!!!! If you want to use those, you would be working for the NWS, private firm or the government in another form.

We at MSU take the same courses that any of the OTHER met schools teach....Synoptic Met 1&2, Thermodynamic Met, Wx Analysis 1&2, Wx Forecasting 1&2, Statistical Climatology and so on.....ALL the classes needed for the AMS.....so if any of you MET HEADS that DIDN'T go to MSU have anything to say about us you just need to go complain somewhere else about your lack of employment. I think anyone who has a clue about forecasting and using all the models and understands them thoroughly should be considered a meteorologist. Just because someone didn't go to PSU, FSU, OU or wherever else doesn't mean they don't know what they are talking about. Until you complainers and MSU BASHERS go through the MSU program, either one, you just need to keep your comments to yourself.

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