Coming from an engineering background, several aspects of the course were absolutely daunting for me at first. As a result, I found that it took me a relatively long time to fill in the gaps and understand the content, especially mathematics, completely. During this entire process, I was very thankful that all the teachers and tutors were patient and supportive and could explain concepts in larger detail if I needed it. After a period of one year like pieces of a puzzle, things started to fit in together. During my master's thesis, I was given a really good opportunity to work with Forschungszentrum Jülich with Prof. Dr. Lukas Arnold in the field of CFD performing modeling and simulation of coupled solid-fluid fire (pyrolysis) simulations. This required me to step up my game once again, requiring me to program new models which further deepened my understanding of Scientific Computing. Although the master thesis was a single person's work, I had a great team and a supporting atmosphere, especially the one-on-one time and brainstorming sessions with Dr. Arnold that not only helped me write an interesting thesis but also expanded my interests not just in CFD but to the larger field of Simulation Sciences.
Currently, I am working as a research associate in the Fluid Dynamics department at the university. My topic of research is the modeling and simulation of collisions between particles and droplets. This is a challenging task requiring me to further grow my knowledge, something that gives me a lot of joy. In general, I did find the course to be demanding, however, it was also very stimulating and eye-opening. I really enjoyed my courses in programming and mathematics of differential equations. It made me realize the potential of scientific computing in engineering, it's implications beyond the field of engineering, and most importantly, understand mathematics on a much deeper.

10.03.2020