 My name is Parker Hawkins. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama and this is my honors experience. I'm a student at the University of Alabama and I'm studying marketing through the accelerated master's program here on campus. It's an opportunity where you can take your master's level courses and then get credit for your undergrad. The Honors College has helped me through the AMP program because it unlocked some opportunities like a consulting project with the here here Alabama and they needed marketing and a lot of data and a lot of opportunities and to spread awareness of their company and so the Honors College was provided this opportunity through me through Connections and an independent study that offered me flexibility to choose what kind of project I wanted to take on. It was an opportunity to serve back to people similar to me just because I'm hearing impaired and so when I get to serve back to people who have the same disadvantages I'd like to create some advantages and some opportunities I guess to that doesn't hinder them from their success. Another invaluable experience that I got through the Honors College was a community service opportunity. I paired with Habitat for Humanity with a January action initiative and we we got a group of about 14 people to come and build a rehabilitation center for downtown and impoverished areas and that opportunity was just life changing through the experiences and the opportunity to serve back to the community.