I can remember being interested in international terrorism since high school, and Croft provided me with the skills I would need to be successful in my current job in the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, International Operations Section. My knowledge of international relations and my language skills have helped me to better communicate with our foreign agency partners when working on matters of mutual importance, and the thesis process allowed me to research and better understand the threats our country and our foreign allies face today, before I even started my job in that field.