{"id":161,"date":"2025-11-14T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/?p=161"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:11:37","slug":"student-spotlight-cheng-hong-lim-bsc-actuarial-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/2025\/11\/14\/student-spotlight-cheng-hong-lim-bsc-actuarial-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight | Cheng Hong Lim &#8211; BSc Actuarial Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Cheng shares his experiences studying BSc Actuarial Science at the University of Kent, Canterbury. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to study at the University of Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I chose to study at the University of Kent because I was looking for a university with a campus near London and heard that Kent hires experienced lecturers with industry experience to teach Actuarial Science. I also decided to come to Kent because I was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/search\/FNADACEX1901\">Academic Excellence Scholarship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best thing about studying in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best thing about studying in the School is having challenging questions and problems to solve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your favourite topic\/module on your course?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business Economics has been my favourite topic so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you found most interesting on your course?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have found the presentation for the statistics module in my first year one of the most interesting parts of my course so far. We were given a lot of data and were asked to come out with our own topic and research it.<\/p>\n<p>I also really love the connection between my course and the real world \/ the application of what I have learnt in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you found the School to be supportive? If so, how has the School supported you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes! The lecturers are very supportive and friendly. I often look for them even outside of their office hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you sum up your course in three words?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep solving puzzles!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you recommend studying at Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would definitely recommend studying at Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng shares his experiences studying BSc Actuarial Science at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Why did you choose to study at the University of Kent? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/2025\/11\/14\/student-spotlight-cheng-hong-lim-bsc-actuarial-science\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83502,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/invicta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}