I have taken 3 courses in the field of my major which were Introduction to Environmental and Urban Studies, Climate & Agroecology, and Environmental Modelling which dealt with MatLab programming language. The main focuses of the other 2 courses were respectively water bodies and agriculture in the context of the changing climate. I got to read lot of scientific papers and develop my secondary research skills. And learned new concepts like systems thinking and incorporation of models into environmental studies, such as COMET-Farm and MatLab. As a result now I feel much more confident as a young researcher! I also took one literature course that was titled Blues/Spirituals: 20thcentury African-American Novels owing to my long love of fiction. In class we discussed issues of racism – to this day a highly-sensitive topic in the US – as well as the Harlem Renaissance Movement and got closely acquainted with its literary representatives.