ORIENTATIONS in “A World Class University”.
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GENERAL ORIENTATION
Since, i have just finished my senior high school 5 months ago. I should continue my study in the College. I chose BINUS, not because i really want to study there, it was because I failed to continue my study in the state university, just called it, “ITP”.
i really wanted to join ITP, it’s because it has a good education in engineering. But after i failed to join there, i didn’t feel so sad because my college now, “BINUS UNIVERSITY” has also a good education in Computer Science program and has so many good relationship with some big company, like Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc.
Okay, let’s just move forward into the topic that i want to share.
When i joined BINUS UNIVERSITY, i need to pass an orientation in there. BINUS has an own style of their orientation. The orientation divides in 3 section; General Orientation, Academic Orientation, and Campus Life Orientaion. The first part is General Orientation, but many of them called “GO or FEP“. FEP stands for Frenshmen Enrichment Program. The first perception that i thought, FEP would become one of a boring parts in Orientations. But my first perception was wrong, FEP is my best part when i am joining Orientatiosn in BINUS.
In that part, i could know my new friends eventhough it was awkward to make relationship with them. Buddy Coordinator or we called them “Kak BC” helped us to know each other. They taught us so many things like softskills and hardskills that we need when we want to work. Moreover, FEP introduced us with some UKM (Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa) in BINUS. I felt so amazed with some UKM in BINUS cause they have their own cultures or uniques in their UKM. I just joined BNCC (Bina Nusantara Computer Club) and PO (Persekutuan Oikumene) because i don’t want to take so many activities in UKM, i feel so busy because i already work as a part time in Education Counselor BINUS.
In the end, i feel so very happy in General Orientations because i don’t have to study programming or math in here even though most of my new friends are MAN. ( I’m still single ) 🙁
ACADEMIC ORIENTATION
Continue to a next part in orientation, this is my most boring part when i did orientation in BINUS. My first perception of Academic Orientation was that, it would become as fun as FEP. But what, i got my perception wrong again.
I felt confused when my lecturer taught me C language in programming. I couldn’t understand how to make my first program even the basic one, i was still confused in the class. Until i got an exam in my last day when was doing academic orientation, there were 2 types of an exam, the first type is an Essay, it was so easy and the other one is a programming logic test. I felt so DEPRESSED. I couldn’t answer even the first question. Until the programming test done, i just got zero in my first exam. In my heart said,
OH MY GOD, Why am i so stupid in programming? Have i chosen a wrong program in BINUS ?
2 days later, i started to learn programming with my “Ka BC”, i felt that my brain was opened by them. I started to know, how to make my first program whether i felt that i need to learn more and more languages in a programming program. What i want to say is that Academic Orientation is helpless for sure.
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILL
When i was doing Orientations in BINUS, i also joined some UKM like what i had said. I joined BNCC and PO. To join BNCC as a member, i need to pay Rp. 800.000,00. Well, it is not a small amount for a college student. I was amazed with that price but my heart said that i will learn so many things in that community so i joined it.
I really want to become an activist in BNCC, but it seems that i will failed to become it because to become an activist, you need to so many quests, let’s say more than 30 quests. How can i manage to do more than 30 quests, college assignments, and working for a short time. So i sacrificed not to do BNCC’s quest to complete the others.
The other UKM that i joined was PO. It is one of a religious community in BINUS. I felt that i could develop and knew so many people from another department. I really happy to know some friends in PO because we have same goal with them. In the PO, i didn’t have to pay to join it.
In the future, i hope that i can learn and grow with them (BNCC & PO) so that i can fill my curriculum vitae with my amazing experiences when i am in BINUS UNIVERSITY.
HTTP (HIMTI Togetherness and Top Performance)
HTTP is one of the big event in HIMTI. HIMTI stands for Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Informatika. You don’t have to join that organisation to attend HTTP but you have to pay Rp 150.000,00. Actually i don’t want to attend in that event if my lecturer didn’t give me an assignment about it. I can conclude from that event, is that i just paid Rp 150.000,00 just for a shirt, a kit, transportation, lunch and E-certificate. HTTP was done in BPPT Tower near Thamrin Tower.
The first session is a greeting from president of HIMTI, dean of school of computer science study program, head of computer science, head of etc. I think, you (who read this) already have an image about the first session of this event. Yeahhhhhh… it’s so boring, i have to hear so many greetings from then. In fact, I already heard their greetings when i was in Academic Orientation.
The second session is the entertainment one. One of the college student from the school of computer science program sang some songs. I forgot his name but he has a good voice for what i have heard. He sang one of the Justin Bieber’s song for what i have remembered. And the next part is a game, some of us were chosen to play a game, a game is so easy just to connect words from their friends. The winner will get DIVA Karaoke Voucher.
Before continue to the next session, we had to have a break, we had my lunch in there and we could going around there to see some bazaars and workshops.
The next session is a boring part too, it was a talk show from alumnae BINUSIAN 2016. Without a further ado, i slept until that session done. HA HA HA…..
After that there were entertainment again like games and visualization story from activist HIMTI, i could say it was more entertaining than the last done so i enjoyed it.
And the last part is DJ part, i could’t join this part because it’s already 6 PM and i needed to go somewhere so i had to go home.
I can include that HTTP is also one of helpless event that i have attended.
In the end, i really enjoy my time in BINUS whether as college student or a part time worker because this college will bring me to the future that i can be a successful one. 🙂
Below, pictures from HTTP 2016 :
