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Name: Quinnon Duke
Age: 29
Employer: The United States Marine Corps
Big Hurdle: Finding a degree program that provided enough flexibility for members of the military.
School: Grantham University
Target: B.A. in Engineering
Always a man of action, Quinnon D., 29, found more for himself in the U.S. military than he ever had in the traditional classroom setting.
He is the first to confess that as a younger man he wasn't much of a student.
"I went to a regular university for a long time but didn't accomplish anything because I can't stand sitting in a classroom," says Quinnon, who tried accounting and finance at Utah State University between 1996-2000.
"I've always loved numbers, but neither of those fields did it for me... I just wanted to party and wasn't ready to buckle down."
To help defray the cost of tuition, Quinnon joined the Marine Reserves after his first year at Utah State.
It wasn't long before Quinnon encountered problems in attempting to get his curriculum to accommodate his military responsibilities.
"Being in the military, I'd have to just take off, go on trips," Quinnon says, "and anything else in life has to get put on hold, that's just how it is... but there was no flexibility at the traditional school."
As one of approximately 30,000 students, Quinnon felt anonymous and received little personal attention to his special situation. "There was no guidance," he says flatly.
So when Quinnon went active duty in 2001, he decided to leave his state university behind for good.
After a couple years demonstrating his skill in the field and potential for leadership, a superior took him aside and asked him what his plans were for later.
"They want to put you in the direction of having something to do after your military career, even if it's thirty or forty years in the future," Quinnon explains.
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