 Sailor Horses were a great option for me because I could take them at my own pace. I was there online classes and I could do them after work or on the weekends. It gave me an opportunity to just fit it in around my busy schedule because I work full-time. So, and I run a small business on the side on the weekends. So, it gave me an opportunity to take my classes when it was convenient for me. Absolutely working full-time. That was just a huge blessing for me, the fact that I could take care of that at my own place. And I also like the fact that I could actually get ahead of schedule and finish the classes much faster than I could in a traditional class setting. So, for that, it was very good. Just the fact that I can do them online and they're pretty much on my time. So, I'm able to work and also, you know, take the time I need for the courses. I can go as fast as I want, as slow as I want with the courses. It's really flexible and the fact that I'm saving a lot of money that I don't have. At the Sailor Academy, we are a non-profit initiative committed to breaking down the barriers to high quality education for people all around the world by providing free online self-paced university level courses. As part of our mission, we work with universities to help their students earn credit from our free open courses to help them graduate more quickly and with less debt. At the University of Memphis in Tennessee, we have partnered with their finish line program which is designed to reach out to students who have stopped attending university mostly for financial reasons and help them complete their degrees. The overall mission, the goal of the finish line is our commitment to degree completion. And I think that it's illustrated by our means of using non-traditional methods to make it accessible, affordable and available to students wherever they may have stopped out. When we started looking at the number of students who were leaving the University of Memphis with a significant number of credit hours earned, meaning that they had almost gotten to the finish line it was really imperative that we start working with those students and supporting them. As an institution we had really not looked at those numbers before to see how many students were leaving that close and so as I started talking to these students and hearing what their stories were it became the most exciting work I've ever done in higher education. The flexibility in the program is derived from the variety of options that may be used to give them that boost towards actually completing or the finish line. So they could use experiential learning credit that's pulled from training that they may do in a corporate setting as long as it has a college credit equivalency or they can use a variety of different resources that we have either created or we use outside vendors such as Sailor that deliver content that's college credit worthy. When I talked about the Sailor courses I said you know what it doesn't hurt you to try let's just sign up for the first course and see if you can make time and the beauty of it being self-paced you can work on it a little bit this week if you have five extra hours and then maybe next week you only have two hours free you can progress at your own pace. We've been very appreciative of the opportunity for them to provide this ready-made curriculum and ready-made content that again was vetted by our faculty to be worthy of including almost like an extension of our curriculum. I took four classes through Sailor Academy and let's see I took American Renaissance, Human Resources Management, Negotiation and Conflict Management and Principles of Management I think there were four classes. And so it's just been a really energizing experience emotional actually because it's been a long time I didn't know if I could do it. Our courses have been a lifeline to over 675 students so far who at one time had no idea how they would afford to finish their degrees and now have earned over 3,000 hours of free college credit to successfully graduate and become alumni of the University of Memphis. I feel like it means I accomplished something that I tried really really hard to get in. It's a lot of pain but it's like I finally accomplished something and I feel like different doors are open for me having a degree and different job opportunities, networking opportunities. So yeah I think I really feel like I'm going to change while taking my degree. I've been waiting on this a while so yeah. For me it's a big deal because it's something that I've been working on for obviously a very long time. It's been very difficult. My entire college experience I've worked full time and on top of that I was very involved on campus. So my schedule was just crazy. On that side I should be the first male to graduate from the University. So for me it's just something that's just been long awaited and I'm really looking forward to being there and getting that degree. I think that the sense of accomplishment is going to be overwhelming, emotional. Just knowing that I did this for myself is huge. If I pursue a secondary degree or a master's degree or not just knowing that I took the time for myself to do this it's just a huge sense of accomplishment for me and it's energizing. I did this. I did it for me, not for anybody else. 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