-: One of the things that was great about UMUC,
especially in my Master's Degree program,
is I was taking my cyber security courses,
the questions and the assignments were lining up
with what I was doing at work.
So there was this mutual benefit.
There was...
I had practical, real-world examples
of what I was getting in class
but then also, the things that I was learning in class
I could apply to those real-world examples.
So it was a beautiful synergy between the two that,
in my case, I was deployed for many of the years
that I was getting my Master's degree
and my Bachelor's degree.
So sitting in Iraq
trying to maximize my time,
when I was off-shift or whatever,
I'm going through schools and assignments
and things like that
and I could directly apply them to what I was working on.
That was, it was instrumental to the success of my career,
as well as, my career being instrumental
to the success of my education.