Issac Tang

Isaac Tang
BEng (Hons) in Structural and Fire Safety Engineering, Year 1

I am Isaac Tang, a year one student studying Structural and Fire Safety Engineering. I found this programme on the JUPAS website when I was a Secondary 6 student. And when I did more research in relation to this course, I found that fire safety is an important issue of the construction industry in Hong Kong since skyscrapers in Hong Kong require effective fire safety measures. Therefore, I decided to spend the next four years in this major.

After getting into university, I found that university life is quite different from that in secondary school in many aspects. The most obvious is the learning environment. In university, lecturers do not check on your learning progress as often as your secondary teachers would do. Therefore, excellent time management skills are crucial. Also, the assignments require higher credibility in university. Whilst I need some time to adapt to the university life, there are some interesting aspects. For example, field trips are part of some courses, which provide me a good opportunity to put what I have learnt into practice, offering me another channel to further enhance my understanding of my discipline.