 This wasn't my first try at college. I went to UWM in 2008 where I got a little bit in too deep with the party crowd and ended up failing out, served for about ten years in different restaurants throughout the Milwaukee area and after about ten years I had a dream or a nightmare where I was 40 years old and I was still serving and my daughters were all grown up and I had no money to my name and within the next week I decided to go to the West Dallas campus at MATC. I was sold on electrical engineering and their transfer program with the MSOE was exactly what I needed. My daughters were the whole reason why I went back and going to a college it didn't require me to take any sort of placement exam or have any sort of SATs after having ten years out of high school was important because it meant that I could start fresh. I feel like with MATC's approach and MSOE's approach I have the skill set that I need to tackle any job that I want to go into. If it weren't for MATC I don't think that I'd be in this position right now talking to you able to share my experience as an MSOE graduate and MATC graduate. They shaped who I am as a person.