I recently finished reading George Orwell’s highly acclaimed dystopian fiction Nineteen Eighty-Four. Personally, I thought the story’s setting which Orwell ingeniously created––the world where England becomes part of a tremendous nation named ‘Oceania’ and is ... More »
Last week during Spring Break, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1924 masterpiece The Great Gatsby, a novel that I read long ago in middle school and yearned to re-read later, as a more mature thinker and reader. Yet, I could not find the time to do so until now, a... More »
Last year during this time of the year, I wrote “Year in Review: 2018” to recap the most significant events that occurred across the world in 2018. My inspiration behind the article came after recognizing that there are many students who do not have time to re... More »
With two weeks remaining before the end of the first semester, deadlines of many universities have already passed, which include the majority of Hong Kong universities. Just like any other year in AISG, many seniors successfully applied to universities in Hong... More »
On October 7, 2019, the official AISG Student Council Instagram account was launched after a long time of planning and preparation. From October 7 to 11 which would be from Monday to Friday, StuCo will select one random follower each day and give a prize which... More »
Widespread fear of a global recession is intensely churning amongst investors, corporate executives, economists, and shareholders. Although some experts and political figures, such as US President Donald Trump himself, claim that a recession is not bound to ha... More »
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At the beginning of 2018-2019 school year, AISG added the highly anticipated International Baccalaureate (IB) Computer Science SL/HL course to our program. I thought of this addition as a great sign that AISG cares about the demand of the students and that AIS... More »
On a lackadaisical Monday morning, I received an email from Ms. Barga, our Beacon advisor, asking The Beacon staff if anyone was interested in interviewing an alum of our school named May Hong, who was also the former editor-in-chief for The Beacon. She gradua... More »
On February 27, 2019, 17 AISG students and two MUN advisors woke up in the early morning to depart for Hanoi, Vietnam. Their journey lasted for five days, from February 27th to March 3rd, in which they participated in the 11th annual UNISMUN conference, hosted... More »
Our fifth featured alum is Minseok Choi, Class of 2018. After he finished his IB finals exam and graduated from AISG in May 2018, he offers an insight into his life after AISG. Q1. You graduated from AISG less than a year ago, and a lot of students still know... More »
2018 is finally over, and the blank canvas of 2019 is before us. Many people hope to begin the year with a clean slate and tick off some goals written on their New Years resolutions list. Although 2019 began less than a month ago, major headlines have already ... More »