 Hi, I'm Caroline. I'm from the United States and I'm here studying the Masters in Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development. In addition to a really interesting academic program, a big highlight for me was meeting friends from all around the world. Not only fellow students but also the faculty is from every corner of the globe and I think that's really valuable. Adding different perspectives and different training from different hydrologic settings, different social, financial, technical settings is really an advantage of this program. I will never forget our field trip that my class did. We went first to Portugal for one week and then to France for two weeks of field work and it was amazing to learn about a new place and to try to understand a watershed from a hydrologic and geomorphological perspective and then to make some designs with all my classmates to control sediment in a watershed. I would tell prospective students to be ready to work hard and IHG will challenge you in different ways. Being in a classroom with people from diversity in every sense of the word can be challenging at times but for me especially it was really rewarding in the end. I would definitely say this was a life-changing experience to me to be able to live in Holland and learn about the way the Dutch do these amazing things with water management. They're really world leaders in hydraulic structures but also just the policies and their mindset about how to manage water, how to adapt to changing climate and how to live with these risks and these are really things that I can bring back to the United States.