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For that flexibility and the time it affords him to spend with his family now that he has returned from the war, he is willing to endure some inconveniences.
Name: Gary Brown
Age: 37
Marital Status: Married
Children: One son
Current Location: North Carolina
Quote: "[The] really great thing about distance education [is] it has no or low impact on family life."
School: Excelsior College
Target: B.S. in Mathematics, 2007
For instance, he has had learned that his higher education path will have to take a very circuitous route.
He has taken courses from no less than eight schools in order to complete the requirements for his various degrees. While he did earn his MBA and graduate certificate from Touro, and will ultimately earn his BS, via independent study, in mathematics from Excelsior, the hardworking student who currently resides in North Carolina has transcripts from schools all across America. He has taken courses from the University of Alaska, Brigham Young University, University of Wisconsin, Empire State, Adams State, and University of Illinois.
He researched numerous options, and found one university that does offer a mathematics degree program online. However, the academic schedule was not up to his usual rigor.
"It rolls on a 16-week plan," the eager self-starter says of the schedule. "It would take me forever to get it done."
In order to earn his degree in accordance with his own accelerated time frame, he decided to forge ahead through independent study.
"I didn't need to sit in a class again," says the tenacious student who had taken math classes earlier in his educational career. "I can do it on my own," he declared. He appreciates the self-paced, self-contained environment of independent study.
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