Alice Huang

China

First Class Honours

University of California San Diego (Exchange, 2025-26 Semester 1)

Humanities Focus: Chinese Language and Literature

The BA(HDT) is a programme that stands where two ways of thinking meet. I am grateful that the past four undergraduate years have opened for me a window through which to study humanistic questions with quiet and undivided attention in this bizarre digital era, while also learning to approach technology with a gaze at once careful, curious, and critical—to ask in what ways technology shapes our lives; to ask in what ways it shapes our society, environment, and spirits; and to ask how we, in turn, might use it to uncover meanings that traditional humanistic methods may leave untouched, and so find new vitality in the field of the humanities. To all the professors and friends I have met along this journey, thank you. I am glad that on this road I have never had to walk alone.