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Vanessa Ng, Business, Year 3

Karry Wong (21 years old) from Hong Kong is now studying in the first semester of his Master in Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich.

It’s been one year since I’ve been here - A year full of struggle and adventure. Just go and ask an international student what they think about HKUST and the Academics here, and more often than not, you’ll get “Struggle” and “Stress” as the two most recurring replies.

Credit to Nitesh Hemlani, HKUST student

I was there when she was born. I saw her take her first hesitant steps. I tried to provide some help along the way and now she is mature and has a great future ahead of her. Her name is HKUST. I joined the University in 1989.

參加了二年的Band society ocamp 好好玩, 好開心 試過做組爸, 陪組仔女玩 處理噓寒問暖等問題 試過比人玩, 任勞任怨, 日日唔夠訓 兩次ocamp 天公也不造美 無得bbq mass game and show各組都做得好好 成組人圍埋一齊食西瓜真係好正架 最後一日完結時有d失望感

We visited the UST in 2003. You were 3 years old and enjoyed the environment very much. We strolled along the shore, on the lawn, and had a brief visit to the library. What a wonderful campus with grand sea view!

University is one big learning experience. We can learn about academic subject of course, but university also teaches us a lot about life and provides unique opportunities that we would never get the chance to experience anywhere else.