Last year, I was named as one of the finalists in the Annual Concerto Competition. Though I did not win, I gained an invaluable experience of being a soloist with a huge symphony orchestra. I have also toured with Collegium Musicum Hong Kong to Beijing to give the opera of “Dido and Aeneas” to China premier at the China Conservatory of Music. All the above would only be unpromising dreams without HKBU. I am extremely excited and looking forward to the tour in the coming summer!

Travelling abroad and increasing life exposure are my dreams. In HKBU, I participated in the Metropolitan Attachment Program in 2010 and 2011. The Program brought me two significant and unforgettable summers in Shanghai and London respectively, as well as a highlight in my university life.

In Shanghai, I worked in the marketing department of Win Label Printing (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. There, I had the opportunity to explore an industry outside my major study. I was also amazed by the rapid development in China through visiting the Shanghai Expo. In 2011, I went to London and I was lucky to work in an international company, Thomson Reuters. I grabbed chances of learning how a big company can operate well with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds. The two internship experiences have enhanced my intercultural competence, problem-solving skills and independence in workplace.

Certainly, overseas internship is just a small part in my three-year university life. I also have great fun in my hall life and extra-curricular activities. I am so proud of being a student in HKBU. I would like to present my genuine thanks to HKBU for giving me such a fruitful university life.

HKBU gives me plenty of opportunities to join various extra-curricular activities! On campus, I have learnt a lot by attending the whole series of distinguished lectures by those Nobel Prize winners. In my hall life, I have fully devoted myself to share every exciting moment with my hall-mates. Besides, I have participated in a service tour organized by the Office of Student Affairs to Gansu Province, where I have played an active role in serving people in Gansu. I have also visited Guangzhou under the arrangement of the School of Chinese Medicine (SCM), where I have made friends with medical students from the whole mainland China.. We took the chance to share our different experiences in learning Chinese medicine.

Outside classroom, I keen on playing tennis and swimming in the Sports Centre inside the university. Inside classrooms (particularly in clinics and laboratories), I have learnt how to diagnose patients and carry out medical research from the doctors and scientists of SCM. To me, I find that all people at HKBU are really nice and HKBU is a large harmonious family!

I’m so glad that I chose HKBU! Through a year’s learning here, I can feel the changes that have taken place on me. I experienced a lot that I didn’t get the chance to during secondary school. Through the experience, I became mature and independent gradually. I joined the service program for kids from south Asia, from which I learned the needs of the minorities in Hong Kong and also learned how to take care of others. By joining a student association and acting as a core member, I learned how to cooperate with other people and work effectively.

Studying in the School of Communication is awesome! The curriculum is designed with a combination of both theories and practice. Last semester, we were requested to be on the ground for some important events and reported them. The most exciting thing I did last year was joining the study tour to North Korea. We set foot on this forbidden land and took a close look at the mysterious country. A book written by all the participants will be coming out soon.

All the professors in the Department of Journalism are really nice. They told us, “Invite us for lunch and we will pay.” They are always there for us whenever we need any help!

My one-year exchange life in Estonia is certainly an endless story to tell! I hope to share the essence of my journey, through some of my thoughts and changes I realised within myself.

I met youngsters from different nations and backgrounds and their genuine thoughts inspired me a lot. I started to view Chinese language and culture in a new perspective afterwards. Meeting different people with diversified backgrounds allows me to appreciate people more than ever before and I am able to know more about myself at the same time.

Physical distance and cultural differences are never the obstacles of bringing all the international students together. Knowing that exchange study may be only once in a lifetime, we were eager to love, share and even tolerate others’ drawbacks.

I am grateful to have this wonderful exchange opportunity. Different exchange students may have their own different adventures and I am sure the experience will always be a unique and rewarding one for each of the exchange students!

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, but the point is to change it." by Karl Marx in 1845.

Unlike scientist, besides seeing the world through different theories, HKBU Sociology students are trained to be actively involved in the society. In my term of serving as the President of the Sociology Society, I learnt the dynamic process of social movement through organizing a field trip to Choi Yuen Village, the disputed land centered for controversy between cultural preservation and economic development.

The focus of my final year's honours project is investigating an on-going social movement of "spacious public household" (寬敞戶). Through observing the interaction between victims of the housing policy, government officials and legislators directly, I apply theories to explain the practical world, and contribute to the society by my understanding on daily social events.

Equality and fraternity are the core values of this Christian university. Through working in food distribution programs to the poor in Bernal Neighborhood Center, a NGO I worked in San Francisco, USA during this summer's Metropolitan Attachment Program, I helped implementing equality; In the two Sichuan Service Tours, being the participant as well as organizer, I become a more caring, cheerful and altruistic person. This also motivated me to be a volunteer in the St. John Ambulance Bridge since then.

Studying in the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) of HKBU is very enjoyable!

“Just have a life!” told by our Programme Director on the first day of my university life. I truly realise these words via active engagement in different activities!

The University offers lots of opportunities for me to explore myself in different aspects. AVA, which has a fantastic study environment, provides sophisticated equipment and experienced teachers to its students. This encourages me to utilise the resources and create more creative artworks. Besides studying, I am glad that I become the President of Visual Arts Student Society. Through organizing activities, especially the orientation camp, it enables me to develop my leadership and sense of unity among peers. Such precious moment can only be experienced at that particular time and space and I am happy to be here at HKBU!