One thing to consider about the MA in English Literary Studies at CUHK is that the university is one of the most highly ranked in the world and its English program reflects that excellence in teaching, scholarship, and research, with its faculty full of top scholars in their field. Much has been said here about the program’s rich literature curriculum, but what attracted me to the program was its Creative Writing and Life Writing courses. For those interested in writing and non-fiction/autobiography, the program has much to offer, particularly when coupled with its “piece de resistance”, the Final Project, which can draw on previous coursework and your own early drafts of creative fiction or non-fiction. In my case, in my Creative Writing course, I wrote a short memoir about a year I spent in Afghanistan. Then after taking the Life Writing course, I was able to draw heavily on life writing theory and the literary techniques learned from the autobiographical works we studied and apply them to my Final Project which was an expansion and a self-critique of my earlier short memoir. Think of the Final Project as a crescendo or denouement and the other courses as building blocks. I was actually dreading the Final Project, but it turned out to be one of the best writing and academic experiences I’ve ever had. Another highlight of the Final Project is that you get to spend hours of quality time one-on-one with a faculty member. That itself was worth its weight in gold!