Campus Life

Cheng Jiarui, First-Batch Undergraduate Student of the Class of 2024, Shuguang Academy

Release time: 2025-03-27

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My academic journey at Shenzhen University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has been a growth experience filled with challenges and pleasant surprises. As a member of the Presidium of the First Student Committee of Shuguang Academy, I have deeply felt the charm of the academy’s "student-centered" culture. From planning the Shuguang Science Festival to organizing inter-university fellowship activities, every coordination and organization task has allowed me to understand the true essence of teamwork and leadership through practice. When I stood on the podium at the Science Festival to give a presentation titledA Preliminary Insight into the Principles of Neural Networks through Handwritten Digit Recognition, the comments from Academician Li Guojie made me realize that academic research requires not only rigor and practicality but also the courage to be a pioneer.

The academic atmosphere at SUSTech has always inspired me to keep breaking through. Winning the "Excellent Undergraduate Academic Scholarship" is not only an affirmation but also a motivation. Here, the interdisciplinary curriculum has helped me break free from the constraints of my major, and exchanges with sister institutions such as Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have further broadened my academic horizons. I particularly remember when I produced and released a video about the stories of graduates from Shimen Middle School; the encouragement from teachers—"Be not only a top student but also a warm-hearted recorder"—taught me to view growth from multiple perspectives.

Campus life at the academy has endowed me with multiple identities: an activity organizer, an academic sharer, and also the "cute guy" as my classmates call me. Whether it is the concentration when debugging code late at night or the laughter with friends backstage at the singing competition, all these have become the most vivid footnotes of my youth. SUSTech has taught me that true excellence is not just the numbers on a report card, but a state of life characterized by maintaining curiosity and daring to try. During this journey, I have met a better version of myself, and I look forward to growing together with this innovative city.