 We really want to start off by thanking all of you for making the trip here. We have folks we know are coming from all over the country. We're so excited to share this with you. Congratulations. Cheers. Thanks to this program I've started a new job last year and I'm a GIS lead for a water civil engineering company. So my program here is already paid dividends. I don't have a background in GIS. So starting off it was getting all of this new information thrown at me and then seeing how that's morphed over three years. I've gone to Europe, I've looked at Astrogeology, I've touched so many different realms that I've never had a background in. So it was a really diverse experience for me and it opened a lot of horizons. I really enjoy being able to interact with professors that are around the world and students that are around the world and students especially that have a wide variety of backgrounds and the agencies and different groups that they might work with. In particular I was surprised at how easy it was to do group work across the internet and work with people in different time zones and really kind of leverage the different experiences that people had together. You're able to log in and still communicate and like go through issues together and still feel like you're part of a community. One thing people ask all the time is you know it's an online degree. How do you feel about that and really the online experience there is a human element to it. There's no doubt about it. You get to know these people really well. I've explored starting my own company, it's called GS Spatial Enterprise and it's just getting started so I'm not officially open for business but I'm starting the groundwork you know so yeah really excited about it. I started with the MGS program because I got laid off and so you know it just made sense that I you know like I didn't really want that to happen again and so I needed to broaden and advance my skills. It's been a wonderful experience. I looked around at several schools before applying to Penn State and looked at the quality of the programs, the number of courses that were offered and nothing even came close to Penn State. It has an amazing reputation for GIS and the faculty and staff were extremely supportive. I'm the first in my family personally to graduate high school. The only one to have gotten a bachelor's and now the only one to have gotten a master's. So it was it's very important in my family and it's very important to me personally to show my son that. Career-wise it's actually already helped quite a bit. I've gotten promoted within my actual agency so having my master's has actually assisted the family economically. The team effort I always feel like as you're doing these online courses so it was important to me that they see that and they also see you know that as an adult you know you continue to educate yourself and you're trying to continue to learn so that was important for me. Well I came all the way here from Texas and I have my best friend here with me and my family is coming up. I have two little ones and education is so important. I want them to watch me walk across the stage. I could have easily just accepted the diploma and just not come here but it was really important that they came and see this you know so I did this for them.