Damini Roy, a political science and economics major at SMU, spoke on "How To Be A Truly 21st Century Graduate" at the inaugural International Student Conference 2013 organised by KDU College Penang in Malaysia. Aside from interviewing many people from professors to a Singaporean Member of Parliament, Damini also went through multiple journals and articles to understand what employers look for these days. One of the ideas presented by Damini was design thinking, a cycle of five steps – empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test – that can be applied as a thought process in many areas of life.