Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

X u We n j i a Xu Wenjia is a diehard business administration major. Not only did she choose the subject at Fudan, she also vowed to reject the offer to come to CUHK i f she was not granted her first choice. She is extremely fond of the subject which she finds well suited to her personality, specifically her love of meeting people, her taste for challenges, and her ability to market herself. 'The teachers at the Faculty of Business Administration have international perspective, ' she says. At CUHK, she has had the chance to visit firms and participate in business contests both locally and overseas, winning many laurels Morgan Stanley and HSBC. On the personal front, Wenjia says she has made many friends at CUHK and generally spent a very happy four years here. 'My Impression of Hong Kong students before coming here was that they spoke bad English and didn't like to study. But now that has changed. There are many extremely capable and hardworking students here,' she remarks. Wenjia is the Esther Lee Scholar of 2 0 0 2. She originally Intended to further her studies at Oxford University but has now decided to stay and Work in Hong Kong for a year after receiving a job offer. D o n g L i h u a Dong Lihua, who studies computer engineering at CUHK, was admitted as a mathematics major to Peking University. She wanted a change of environment and to enrich her life with different experiences, so she decided to come to Hong Kong. Computer engineering seemed to be the most interesting subject among the ones she could choose from, so i t became her major. And it seems her newly acquired experience has succeede to convert her: she has now applied to CUHK and other universities in the States to read graduate programmes in computer science. She believes she has benefited a lot from the balance of theory and application of her undergraduate studies at the University. Lihua has made new friends at the University but she finds that the students here spend too much time shopping and going to movies, karaoke, etc. Back in Beijing, she and her friends spent more time studying. Lihua i s not sure what kind of job she would like in the future, neither does she care where she works, be it Hong Kong, mainland China, or overseas. But as she likes the CUHK campus, it is likely that she wil pursue her graduate studies here. 21