MSc Organic Chemistry — Guru Nanak College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Affiliated to Mumbai University | 2018–2020)

What I studied: Two years of postgraduate chemistry : Organic, Inorganic, Industrial, and Analytical Chemistry across the first year, then a full specialisation into Organic Chemistry in the second year. 

Plus Analytical Chemistry which came with hands-on instrument training : HPLC, UV-Vis Spectrophotometry, and more advanced lab techniques that required precision and patience in equal measure.

Honestly? It was intense. Masters-level organic chemistry is its own universe: reaction mechanisms, synthesis pathways, spectral analysis. The kind of syllabus that demands you hold a lot of complexity in your head at once.

What I actually took away (that matters for design):

MSc didn't just add more knowledge, it trained a different quality of thinking.

Organic chemistry in particular is about understanding why molecules behave the way they do, not memorising outcomes, but tracing logic through structure.

That's a deeply systems-level way of thinking. You learn to look at something complex and ask: what are the underlying rules here?

Analytical Chemistry added something else, instrument literacy and data interpretation. 

Reading results, questioning anomalies, deciding what the data is actually telling you versus what you want it to say. That discipline translates directly into UX research.

What masters really taught me: complexity is manageable when you have a framework.

I bring that same rigour to how I approach user problems : structured, methodical, and never skipping the "understand before you solve" step.