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<v ->Rollins is, it was a great experience.</v>

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I had been to multiple colleges

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before Rollins throughout my military career.

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And I struggled in college before I joined the military,

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because I never felt connected with why I was there.

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I never felt connected with the teachers,

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I never felt connected with the purpose,

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I was, for a long time, in college

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because it was the socially acceptable thing to do.

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Rollins was the first college I had ever experienced

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that I felt purpose in, and I felt benefit from.

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Every class I had,

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I learned the most I had ever learned in that subject.

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So whether it was entrepreneurial finance, or

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social entrepreneurship, or entrepreneurial marketing,

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that teacher taught me the most I had ever learned

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in that subject before.

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And

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they taught me from

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a startup standpoint, which was huge,

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being able to look at marketing from a startup standpoint

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versus looking at marketing from, I just got hired

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by this huge firm and I have an endless budget, et cetera,

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and somebody's gonna tell me what to do.

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Two totally different things.

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It's night and day.

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So being able to look at all of those subjects of business,

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and starting a business, from that beginning standpoint,

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and from that managerial standpoint,

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was really what

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made it amazing.