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My name is Edgar La Torre,

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and I'm a student at Dominican University's

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Brennan School of Business.

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I'm currently taking classes in the evening program

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for working adults who want

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to finish their bachelor's degree in business.

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The Brennan School of Business is great for working adults

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because it's very flexible.

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A lot of the classes are hybrid, either online

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or they start around 6:30 in the evening.

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It gives you an opportunity to have something to eat

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before class or,

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or hang around with your peers,

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which are other working adults.

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Also, I was a transfer student from Morton College.

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I was able to transfer most of, if not all, my credits over

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to Dominican.

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They also offer amazing scholarship opportunities.

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There's a lot of professors that have real life experience.

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A lot of professors come from big companies like IBM,

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Motorola, Pactiv.

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One of my professors was actually

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working for Pactiv.

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He was able to create an internship position to

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fulfill their requirements here at Dominican.

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That internship prepared me for the career

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that I'm currently doing right now,

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as a project manager. I had professors

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that believed in me and encouraged me,

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and that's the one thing that I'm very grateful for a lot

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of the professors here, that they're able

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to encourage you and let you know that you can succeed.

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That's one thing that I can tell everybody

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that does go to the school.

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You're surrounded by great professors

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with a real life experience and, you know, take risk.

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You know, you never know where it'll lead you.