 Hello, my name is Matt and I just recently transitioned from the United States Marine Corps after eight years so I have a similar background and I experienced to what many of you are contemplating right now. One of the biggest concerns I had when I was making the transition from the military was if I had the skill sets relevant for a job in business or even going to an MBA program. Fisher has a great building block approach where they start with the core fundamentals and the foundation, the lay the foundation for you and then they build upon that with practical application. One of the great experiences I had was in accounting where I had no experience with it but Professor Johnson laid a very solid foundation and once we received that the lecture information if you will we then were forced to apply it to real-world financial statements and we truly got to understand and develop our knowledge of how they are all intertwined and apply them how relevant my experience was from the military and my ability to apply it in the classroom setting. When I was planning on making the transition from the military one thing I was not happy with was the recruiters who were contacting me and the positions they were offering. I didn't feel that they offered the upward mobility I was looking for or the positions that I was really interested in. A great aspect about getting an MBA is one that differentiates you and a great aspect about Fisher's differentiates you and they they take a vested interest in your career development. They do things above and beyond especially for those who may not have some of the similar experiences as others. They put on boot camps now obviously something a little different than we're used to but these career boot camps are designed to take you through the process of this is a job and and here are the aspects of this job here's the learning you need to have or the classes you need to take to get that career going forward and Fisher values those who have served in the military and they have special funding packages for those who qualify who have a military background for me I felt pretty fortunate I was able to receive a ten thousand dollar scholarship I was able to receive an offer for free housing and a graduate assistance position which gave me half-priced tuition and a stipend put that all together plus the GI bill which I still was eligible for I was actually making money by going back to school with the average starting salary package being over a hundred thousand dollars I knew this was going to be a great return on my investment for both me and my family going forward