>> You know, it's interesting, UMUC gave me the ability to interact
with folks from all over the world.
So, you know, when I took my MBA class, which was primarily online, I was interfacing
and collaborating on papers with people who were in Australia -- I mean, all over the world.
And it was a phenomenal, life-changing experience.
You know, it's hard enough to write a paper with four people
and everyone's jockeying for who owns the paper.
But trying to do that with people in different time zones,
some where English may not be their first language, that was an incredible experience.
And frankly, for me in my role very much dependent on technology and interfacing
with people around the world from the United States, UMUC prepared me for how to collaborate
through technology in ways I just never anticipated.