 I mean, it's all around you all the time. So you really can't escape it. Math helps you explain the larger concepts of the world. As a discipline to study, it helps with problem-solving skills. As you take math classes and math courses in high school or in college, you learn how to become a better thinker, which can be, you know, applicable to anything that you're going to be doing. I see what I do in my classroom as a math teacher, as giving my students a tool that is going to serve them for the rest of their lives. The more you learn about mathematics, the more you realize there's so many more questions about things that we don't know than there are answers. A lot of people think they realize that mathematics is a rapidly evolving discipline, where there are real research problems being done, but it's absolutely the case. I think that Grand Valley gives great opportunities for undergraduates to learn how to research and experience that research, especially opening up doors for graduate school and preparing us for what we could possibly do in the future. Just here in the department, we have undergraduates involved in all kinds of research. There are research opportunities that undergraduates can take advantage of through research experience for undergraduate programs in the summer that are hosted at Grand Valley and in many other places. We have a number of students who are doing these every year that go off for a summer for eight, nine, ten weeks in work with other bright students from all over the country on live, unsolved mathematical problems with real faculty and get results and get published and present at conferences. If you want a job in mathematics, you can do almost anything. One of the aspects of being a math major is thinking critically. Having significant math coursework in your background on a transcript and on a resume shows people that you have the intellectual firepower to handle quantitative tasks and I think that's very important, but it also shows people that you have your problem solver and you have curiosity and you know how to attack and creatively work on, collaboratively work on difficult problems using technical tools. Besides teaching, math majors can also be actuary scientists. They can be operations researchers. They can be, they can go into finance. There's so many doors that math opens. They're not really pinch and hold in any way. Just find an industry or a company that has core values that match up with you and then that will be a good fit. Employers look at math majors because they have good logic skills, they have good problem solving skills, they have good critical thinking skills. All of those things are necessary to be successful in studying math in college and this is easily seen at a professional level and they're very transferable. A math degree is the tool that is going to set you up for success for the rest of your career.