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Online Learner Profiles: Quinnon D.

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Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Quinnon D., Bachelor's in Engineering

Though he's not exactly sure what job this major might land him down the road, he's confident that his studies will pay off when he's ready to leave the military.

"If I go twenty or thirty years in military and then retire, I won't have hard time finding job," he says assuredly.

"A degree would be just a bonus that puts me above next person, or makes me eligible for a higher position within a company."

He adds: "When you've already been successful in life and have good personal skills, and now you're just adding on top of that some kind of education, I think employers are just looking for any type of degree completion, not necessarily from a traditional school."

When asked what he's learned about himself in his endeavor to finish his B.A. online, he says it's great to feel like an academic success and to have finally found an area of study that he genuinely enjoys.

"I like being challenged and learning something," he says. "It's much better than someone handing me a piece of paper that doesn't mean anything."

Apparently Quinnon's opinion matters to the people at Grantham as well.

He was recently invited to take part in an in-person focus group with nine other students from around the country. "We spent the day talking about how Grantham could improve its system," he says.

"There were a lot of suggestions that the school really took in. And giving the faculty the opportunity to see the students made it more personal for them too, I think."

He mentions that Grantham has already started to implement some of the other students' suggestions and hopes that they'll get to his soon: currently the school sends him any books he needs, but he badly wants to replace those e-books.

Why? "I've already got enough stuff to carry around in Iraq," he says. ...Fair enough.

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