University of Science and Technology Reviews

Type of housing: On campus

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: On campus

Why? housing costs off campus in town are quite expensive and means long ways to uni.

Personal comments:
it was my first experiance with campus life. it is quite convenient to live on campus because it was cheap and you have all facilities you need for living there. eg. laundry, restaurants,... the size of rooms are quite ok and some of them have even sea view. in the room there is a big locker, a cupboard, a desk, shelves, a bed which is too small (190x70cm) and a chair. rooms have air condition and a van. the only disadvantage is that you have to share the bathroom and toilet with the whole floor.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Personal comments:
clubs: the best club in town is the dragon-i; book a table to get in or get to know the guys at the door. wednesday: models-night, friday: house, saturday: special guests. watch out for club-ing on thursdays is ladies night and get a warm up in the carnegies in whanchai first (happy hour on all coctails). ladies night also on wednesdays in whanchai e.g. the venue. fridays at the drop, come early or dress fancy cause usually members only. bars: nice area is lan kwai fong, just go arround you'll find your place. eg. drink at the russian bar at -8degrees celsius! upscale bars are also in hollywood road. check it out! i was not so impressed by the felix bar, they can't even mix a bloody marry. in the kowloon hotel every night there is 2 hours drinking for 98HKD. karaoke: kowloon-tsim shai tsui-knotsford terrace. arround this area. eat: best western restaurants are in soho and arround soho. eg. bocca, spitfire, pizza express,... check also the small restaurants beside lan kwai fong eat at the thai restaurant (elvis is waiting for you!) girls: check out whan chai area and the femwicks. interesting place,.....

Course recommendations:
make sure that you have some local groupmates, it makes life more easier because they really care about the grades and you get to know their working skills and probably make up some friends. it is very interesting! I got very bad information about the availability of courses bevore I could register for them. When I wanted to register for special courses it turned out that they were beeing held in the other semester. Hopefully this information will improve because I wasted a lot time with the lack of information. Courses are very work intensive, 1 mid-term, 1 final test, group presentations, group projects and several individual papers are too much. all in all I think it was a nice experiance to see how Chinese study and teach.

Personal comments:
none

Language of instruction: English

Main source of funding:
Personal savings

Other sources of funding:
None

Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options

Personal spending habits:
travelled a lot

Travel, Nightlife: was more expensive than at home.

Food, Overall, Telephone: was the same price as at home.

Housing: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
I sould have read the travel guide about Hong Kong to have more information ahead so it takes me more time to get started in the city.

In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!