Journalist Kok Xing Hui took part in a disability simulation with 40 SMU students in a "Managing Diversity in Asia" course held in March, where students spent an hour navigating the sprawling campus, wearing props to simulate what it might feel like to have disabilities. Sharing her experience in a Straits Times article, she said it was very worthwhile in terms of developing empathy, yet very isolating and scary. She added that moving around the SMU campus was difficult and slow, despite her groupmates being SMU students who knew the buildings' orientation. For one hour, Ms Kok was an “elderly with impaired movement, bad eyesight and poor hearing, in a wheelchair”, where she was entirely dependent on her “elderly caregiver”, SMU Student Seet Kai Li. SMU student Justin Ong, who also participated in the disability simulation, said that to use the lifts, they had to go to many corners. Course instructor (SMU Diversity & Inclusion Assistant Director) Ho Jack Yong noted that the it was just for an hour, and participants did not have to face what people with disabilities have to cope with “We didn’t have to think about making a home, looking for jobs, or finding a romantic partner,” he said.