 So my name is Sam Davies and I study a Bachelor of International Relations here at ANU with a specialisation in security studies. One of the highlights of my degree was going on ANU's exchange program. I was lucky enough to study at the George Washington University in Washington DC. The Elliott School of International Affairs there is really good and they have a number of very prestigious scholars and faculty members. So that was a great opportunity to further my studies and look at the same content from different perspectives. A really unique opportunity that ANU offers is the Australian National Internship Program. So I did that in the final semester of my degree and I was placed with a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives, Jim Chalmers, and I was able to do a really substantial body of research for him and spend two days a week at Parliament House in his office there, which is a great way to do practical learning as well as still further my research skills. I lived in Jordan and worked for Save the Children in the Middle Eastern Eurasia Regional Office. They deployed me to Iraq shortly after ISIS took over Mosul and so I was working in refugee camps there, which was obviously a harrowing but also a really educational experience. I think it's really important to combine theory and practical education. If you know all about theory, you can probably write a pretty interesting book but you're not going to be very good at your job. And if all you can do is talk about what's happened and not how those different things relate to one another and see the patterns, then it's going to be pretty hard to predict things that are going to happen and start responding to the issues in the world in a measured and effective way. I came to the ANU because of the faculty primarily. The lecturers and the staff here are fantastic and many of the lecturers I've had have been really interested in my outcomes, my educational outcomes. They follow me through my whole degree. Some of them helped organize internships for me or put me in contact with people overseas when I've been overseas. They've really come through with that image that they have. There's a really, really amazing group of people who study here and they'll be friends and colleagues for a long time to come.