By Kintu Annie Joseph

Joining FASS is proving to be an all round experience, from trying to meet the numerous deadlines, having professors who make you do better than your best, and  meeting new people who have become my best friends. The experience has been so enriching and satisfactory that I’ve loved every moment of being here. I’ve been here for more than 9 months and every day has a proven to be a handful!

My favourite module – State and Civil Society in the Information Age is a reason to look forward to my Mondays! My research is on mobile phone use among marginalised women from a particular community in the state of Kerala, India. The focus is on how these women have appropriated the mobile phone and the effects it has had on their lives.

When I joined CNM, many people that I met at the time asked me why I chose NUS. At the time, that I had decided to pursue my Masters; I had started looking at the Universities in the UK and elsewhere. That’s when my uncle suggested applying to NUS and naturally since I was from the Arts background there was no other place for me than FASS. I did visit Singapore before submitting my application and that time I also visited NUS and that’s when I thought to myself, it’s such a beautiful place and I would love to come back and study here. From that moment on, it was FASS all the way!