 OER is a perfect opportunity to help the students of the technical college system of Wisconsin to thrive. I think the most important thing to understand is what OER is, open educational resources. Currently what we as students have to do is purchase a new textbook for each course that we take. The fees associated with those purchases are astronomical. We're struggling with tuition so some of these books that are very expensive are costing like $600. With my past experience technically I've had to buy a bundle of nursing books which we only ended up using about half of them but it ended up costing me $800. Having one less bill to pay which is textbooks which sometimes comes as $2,000 a semester reduces stress. I don't feel like people should have to choose between whether they're going to eat or their kids are going to eat, whether they have lights or not, and books. We are asking for more funding for OER so that we can provide this open education to those going through the technical college system. The small bills that can help us make a difference is the small bills that can encourage us to be able to sign up for classes and have the force to keep going. It matters because it reduces financial burden for all students not just myself but other students across the Wisconsin technical college system. We would be able to focus more on more classes, getting more students in our campuses. Students don't have to worry about the financial burden of purchasing textbooks. We can in my situation work less hours and spend more time on our studies which is the real reason we're in college in the first place is to master new material. With OER it's actually been great because I found out that most of my classes have different alternatives like some have PDFs that you can download and print. There's videos that I can watch so it's been really helpful because I would work so much trying to just pay tuition or whatever so now that I have these resources I can spend more time studying and I study my tickets off. If legislators invest in us right now we will invest invest ourselves and repay that back to the state in the future with all of the knowledge that we've gained.