Opening Remarks about the Academic Blog
Hong Kong Student Network (HKSN) is proud to launch an academic blog that would primarily be focused on interviewing individuals (preferably with HKSN memberships) who are either McGill alumni or students in their last year.
Our aim is to allow incoming students at McGill to vicariously experience some of the interviewee’s lives and structure their end goals. We also hope to show you that there is something more than prestigious jobs, and that in some cases, passion in a subject could override everything else.
We, as students, have been nurtured in perhaps multiple educational institutions in our whole entire lives; and for the first time in university (perhaps), we get to experience freedom of choice. We get to choose our courses based on our interest. We slowly learn about who we are and where our passion lies. We start isolating ourselves from society and ruminate repeatedly to figure out who we are. This cycle of epiphanies about oneself could happen heavily in the first year or the last year of university, or evenly spread out throughout the years of undergraduate. Sometimes society imposes upon us certain beliefs, that some jobs are better than others and that sometimes it is better to follow stability over passion. Sometimes it’s the contrary. University is the perfect time to assess all the available options, venture out of the custom installed by society and search for something else that could make you smile and happy.
The most important thing is that there is no right answer to choosing one’s career path.
Our career path is sculpted and polished as our experience in life shapes who we are. Our life experiences are full of vicissitudes and uncertainties, not of pre-planned routes designed by someone else. It is solely up to you to decide what you want to do upon graduation.
With the launch of the academic blog, we hope that we could expose you to a mosaic of various paths,
and thus reinforcing the notion that life is full of detours and choices as demonstrated by the upcoming fantastic stories of our interviewees.
With lots of love and hope,
Sam Min (Vice President of Academics, HKSN)
Interview post links:
Kristy Zhang: https://medium.com/@HKSN/kristy-zhang-detouring-from-science-delving-into-communications-42eb0e2a57e4#.e9ez15bzn
Mandy Lam: https://medium.com/@HKSN/mandy-lam-bridging-the-gap-between-music-and-mind-a5052f4a8482#.t42wcb9hx
Rodger Liu: https://medium.com/@HKSN/207109c5d476
Stephanie Leung: https://medium.com/@HKSN/60c7f401e946
Michael Ho: https://medium.com/@HKSN/61955916687d
Nancy Lu: https://medium.com/@HKSN/ae0e9746968c
Serena Cheung: https://medium.com/@HKSN/3746733f7b11
Kelvin Ip: https://medium.com/@HKSN/606945075f19
Mike Han: https://medium.com/@HKSN/c4bbcb2171d3
Joy Wang: https://medium.com/@HKSN/176134989c3f
Jen Xiong: https://medium.com/@HKSN/4ea48627bb63
Mattias Liu: https://medium.com/@HKSN/18c64eb2d732
Thomas Law: https://medium.com/@HKSN/3e860c92773
Frank Cao: https://medium.com/@HKSN/43342dc2edca
Jenny Shen: https://medium.com/@HKSN/5483e1f7798f
Dickson Kong: https://medium.com/@HKSN/529fcac95fa3
Ginny Tan: https://medium.com/@HKSN/eb61db9c78cf
Kevin Cheng: https://medium.com/@HKSN/4425683e6b14
Tak Amasa: https://medium.com/@HKSN/tak-amasa-life-figures-out-itself-b83f5d0bc7df
Louis Lee: https://medium.com/@HKSN/louis-lee-bcom-finance-and-economics-1f9d342478db
Alistair Barton: https://medium.com/@HKSN/alistair-barton-bsc-joint-honours-in-math-and-physics-803cccdab3ea
Annie Kwok: https://medium.com/@HKSN/annie-kwok-b-a-art-history-f1fbaae648a2
Simon Hua: https://medium.com/@HKSN/simon-hua-bsc-neuroscience-b22dadb1dc25#.qespabw4o
Etienne Flamant: https://medium.com/@HKSN/etienne-flamant-bsc-interdepartmental-honours-in-immunology-119e7c42796b#.3060se113
