 My name is Sachi Sen. As you know I did the FTPS program for a year and I did development studies and my other module was international law. Yes, I'm from Mumbai. Because I have work experience in the development field, so I worked for three and a half years in microfinance back home in India. But I had no theoretical or academic knowledge of the subject. So I had my experiences and I was finding a lot of roadblocks and obstacles in my work and I didn't understand why. So I wanted a more academic knowledge of the subject. So this is why I chose development studies as one of my modules in FTPS. So I think our module was divided into three sections by our teacher really well. So the first kind of went and it was all theoretical but the first was like broadly like poverty, gender. So all of that was really interesting for me. How do you measure poverty? What it means to be poor, not just income wise but also you know feeling powerless, not having agency, all of those things. Then the second one was more about the Washington Consensus, how the West has influenced policies in the development field all over the world because of the money that they have and just the influence that they have. And the third was development economics which is not my strong suits. I wasn't a fan of that. We did microfinance is one of the topics which I was obviously very interested in. I just understood why things were happening. Why do women not have agency? What are the deep structural causes of poverty in India in terms of the labor and women? And the caste system, how do societal prejudices affect poverty and development, all of those things. For me it was the research and academic writing because I've never done anything like this before. So just the essays and researching about it and also a lot of the time we were left to our own devices. So it was kind of like a self-study which I guess masters is going to be like. So it was good preparation but for me because education in India is very spoon-fed. So it was a little tough for me to find the self-motivation and self-discipline to do it. But yeah that was a little bit challenging. Definitely people who want to go into the development field and do a masters that is in development studies, yeah it's like a good introduction to the topic. My teacher gave us, introduced us to a lot of scholars and academics who wrote on subjects that I was interested in who I had never heard of before, but are very important in the field. So it's a very good introductory topic in the field. So as I've applied for the violence conflict and development module in the development studies program. Not yet, I think I'm supposed to get it today but I'm not sure. And do you have a plan B? Hopefully Queen Mary. So can I ask why you choose VCD over peer development? Yeah because my ISP, the independent study project you're supposed to do for FDPS was based on conflict and the aid industry and how they interact. So I think I want to go into the aid industry, maybe work for the UNDP or something. So I think conflict and development are closely linked in today's world.