{"id":4651,"date":"2022-07-21T19:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:32:55","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/food-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"[Boston] Food for thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><div class=\"column one\">[Boston] Food for thought <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><\/div>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p>As an exchange student in the US, Carman often felt lost and completely alone in the new country. Through her mentor Dr Venus Huang, Carman was able to widen her horizon and know more about what it&#8217;s like being a migrant in America.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-195x146.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-50x38.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan-640x480.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;My mentor took me to Boston College and gave me a tour. We had a great time chatting and enjoying ourselves there. Through chatting with my mentor, I understood more about the industry she is working in (biochemical industry). I also widened my horizon and got to know more about being a migrant in America. She provided me a lot of food for thought and motivated me to achieve higher goals.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4654 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-219x146.jpeg 219w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-50x33.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-113x75.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Boston_OX_CarmanChan2-720x480.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;We also enjoyed an afternoon tea with Ms Siu, the founder and former convener for Hong Kong University Alumni Association of Boston &#8211; New England and Milly Ng (Mrs. Lau), the current convener. We exchanged ideas and thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an exchange student in the US, Carman often felt lost and completely alone in the new country. Through her mentor Dr Venus Huang, Carman was able to widen her horizon and know more about what it&#8217;s like being a migrant in America.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;My mentor took me to Boston<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-stories","tag-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","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=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}