Student Clubs

University life is not just about studying and getting a decent degree. A unique and remarkable experience of university life lies in a student's involvement in a wide variety of activities offered by the university. Among those, student clubs constitute a major part of the extra-curricular activies since student clubs are the organizations that offer an abundance of different kinds of events for each students. As a result, I find myself heavily involved in different kinds of student clubs despite the tremendous amount of work as an Engineering Science student. I find that student clubs are just as important as school, if not more. By being an exective and organizing different events in a student club, one really learns how to plan, prepare and run an event/show and work with others as a team. I learnt how to communicate effectively, to understand/compromise with different opinions. I gained leadership skills throught different positions in different clubs. I also learnt a lot of public speaking, business and promotional skills (Thanks to the large number of Chinese Student Associations in U of T, chinese student clubs are EXTREMELY competitive and we are forced to constantly think of new ways to make ourselves stand out among others. Everything is just like companies competing against each other). I am also suprised to have learnt a lot of politics along the way. With all the skills that can be learnt in student clubs, I do think that those are something vital to the success of one's life in every aspect. Lastly, it also expand my circle of friends and enrich my university life by a lot and I have so much fun participating in club activities .

Here are the clubs I am/was involved in. Please take a look !

• Unique Productions and Publications, U of T
  Currently the Vice President External, I had been the music director of Unique for the past 3 years. Unique is a Chinese student club that provides different kinds of activities to members ,with a focus in artistic, dramatical and musical arts. Events include dances, soccer/basketball tournaments, book fair, ski trips, also variety shows and music events such as annual band competitions, drama and singing contest where I am specifically in charged of the music affairs. As well, the ultimate goal of Unique is to promote our philosophy of creativity and innovation, to do what our slogan says, "The realm of creation begins with your imagination".Unique is also one of the founding members of Alliance(see below)

• Chinese Engineering Student Association, U of T
  CESA is another Chinese student Club in U of T which are composed of Engineering students. With a focus on academics and volunteering events, CESA is the second largest student body in Engineering and also proves to be one of the largest Asian student body in U of T. Frequent cooperation with Chinese Culture Centre(CCC) and charity organizations such as Mon Sheong Foundation and YeeHong further establish CESA in the Chinese community in Toronto. I ampriviliged to have a chance to be a social director of CESA for '01-'02 where events such as orientation, valentine's day candygram, badminton/basketballtournament, ski trip, exam past paper sale, numerous volunteering events and the annual CESA banquet were successfully organized. I am also very happy to have a chance to know a group of new engineering friends throught CESA

• Hart House Music Committee, U of T
  The HartHouse Music Committee is in charged with all the musical affairs of the Hart House whichis the centre of extra-curricular activities in U of T. I was a committee memberof the Thursday night sub-committee (later known as The Stages) wherewe invite artist with local, regional or national fame to perform everythursday night. Also, I myself performs with the Engineering Skule Stage Band for Jazz at Oscar's (another sub-committee) once every semester.

• The Alliance of Ontario Universities Chinese Student Organizations
  The Alliance is the biggest and most well-known Chinese student body in Toronto. It is a non-profit Organization registered in Ontario. Currently consists of 8 chinese studentclubs from 6 Universities across Ontario, the main purpose of the Alliance is to promote and educate the public to the Chinese culture as well as giving something in return to the community we belong to. Furthermore, with a wider base to draw from, the Alliance hope to unite students' voices on a greater scale and ultimately the voices will speak as one that represents all the chinese students in Ontario and Canada. I currently serve as therepresentative of Unique in the Alliance.