{"id":2980,"date":"2018-12-18T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2018-12-19T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T02:22:39","slug":"illinois-feeling-great-with-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/illinois-feeling-great-with-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"[Illinois] Feeling great with mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong><\/span><\/span> [Illinois] Feeling great with mentor<\/span><\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\u201cI benefitted a lot from my mentor\u2019s positive attitude towards academia, life and people. Being a respected professor in electrical engineering in Illinois Institute of Technology, Professor Wong treated me as a friend with all his kindness. He is the type of senior who is easy to get along with, and he makes me feel great about myself.<\/p>\n

We met for the first time in downtown Chicago where my mentor took me to a Chinese restaurant and later on a ferry tour along the Mississippi river. We had great conversations throughout the trip. He was always in an optimistic mood and so energetic!<\/p>\n

We had another gathering with HKU alumni in Chicago and I met a lot of interesting people there. I would strongly recommend that exchange students join this programme if you are interested to know how people, with similar backgrounds as you, live their lives abroad. I was not able to meet my mentor very often since my university was 3 hours\u2019 ride from Chicago where my mentor lives, but I did benefit a lot from the time we spent together.”<\/p>\n

(Photo 1) “Professor Wong and I on a ferry on Mississippi river heading to downtown Chicago”
\n(Photo 2) HKU Alumni gathering in Chinatown, Chicago<\/p>\n

Mentor in Illinois, USA: Professor Thomas T Y Wong
\nOutgoing Exchange Mentee (2018-19): David Wu, BEng(CivE) Year 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI benefitted a lot from my mentor\u2019s positive attitude towards academia, life and people. Being a respected professor in electrical engineering in Illinois Institute of Technology, Professor Wong treated me as a friend with all his kindness. He is the type of senior who is easy to get along with, [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}