College Matters

In the first semester you should noted that you have to know how to enroll the class. In Universitas Indonesia, usually you have to choose your desired class or subject (but I didn't know if today they can choose it freely or university already doing it for their student) by using SIAK NG. You can choose based on the time schedule or lecturer. It will give benefit to you if you already know the type of lecturer (As I know that lecturer has an important role in decide your grades).

In the first year, you will be occupied with "study orientation" or in bahasa you called it as "OSPEK". Based on my experience, you should keep your study on fire or I mean do not slack off too much because you will eventually regretted it. If you did not have confidence in your studies, you should be active on class! As far as I know, people who becomes class leaders will get plus point from the lecturer or teacher and it could help with your grades. And you can start to ask your seniors about the the lecturers because every lecturers tend to have different views and way to evaluate their students.

Rumah Belajar BEM UI

In second year, you can started join organization, such as, your department student association (Himpunan Mahasiswa Departemen) or maybe student executive board (Badan Eksekutif Mahasiswa) or others volunteer work. For example, I joined Social-Education Program - Rumah Belajar BEM UI. It can helps you to learn how to organize your time, socialize, how to solve matters, gain your confidence and improve your leadership skill. It is the time for you to learn such skill! do not hesitate, just join and learn, you will know it after you done it! But do not forget to keep study too!

In the third year, you should doing less organization matters, but it depends on you, if you want to graduate on time you should started to focus on your study. While you doing your organization works, you should also spend your time to prepare and think for your undergraduate thesis. Maybe you can start to search what you really interested about and start to read journal about it. Anyway, it is not too soon, believe me that times will goes fast! Another things you can do is start to ask or discuss with lecturers that he/she are expert in the things you are interested at. Just said to them that you interesting about "X" and ask them if they have any leisure time to discuss with you. 

And in the last year, I suggest you to focus only on your thesis (again : if you want to graduate on time). Start to read a lot, discuss with your fellows and lecturers, ask them a lot then you will get the benefit. If you know a lot about your thesis you can do well on your thesis defense. Surely, you will get a good grades. Noted that in this year you will learn a lot about life, so be prepared, be strong (as always) and learn to motivate yourself! Good luck!

Cheers!💟

Getting Started

The secret of getting ahead is "getting started"

I will dedicate this blog to inform, explain, discuss, giving my opinion and maybe some tips about school or university stuff.

As an intro, I will give some information about myself so you can take into account if there will be different views in my next post.

This year (2017) is my last year in Geography department of University of Indonesia (or "Universitas Indonesia")*. As a geographer, I have a lot interest in biomass and also forest degradation. My undergraduate thesis theme is biomass and focus on rural and urban areas. In geography dept, I also learn about remote sensing technology and this is really interesting subject for me as I always amazed and keen on technology advancement. I also love doing volunteer works especially in marginal education program. 

While learning in the university, I also join social and educational program called "rumah belajar". It helps me to learn about how to understand others, how to speak and deal with children and it also show me what is the real problem my country faced with. As I know, there is a lot of ways that we can use to solve this problem and one of the method is "publicity". I use this media to inform what I learn and know and even though only little information I am glad and want to share it.

Cheers!💟

*why I give two names (my university) is because there are some uncertainty that "university of indonesia" can be used or not as they only register "universitas indonesia" as university's name.