Category: FEP Summaries

Human interacts with one another. That’s why there’s a term homosocius for us humans. From that social interaction we do, we share our ideology, mindset, and goal. These people who share the same stuffs mentioned before unite, creating a large group of people who we call as Organization. It’s not just a mere large group because it has hierarchy. In short, there’s boss, employee, head of staffs, etc. This organization will run smoothly if each person does its job well. One unnoticed mistake can ruin the whole organization like a galloping domino.

To ensure each person does its job, it’s important that they educate themselves with knowledge and abilities. However, it’s not as easy as it is. We all know that skills are divided into two: Hard Skill and Soft Skill. They are two different things but support one another, so it’s crucial to build these skills during your life.

It is obvious that Hard Skills involve technique and abilities that must be learned, studied, and researched. Unlike that, Soft Skills involve personal experience with environment and society nearby. According to Bina Nusantara Global Employability and Enterpreneurial Skills, there are six key soft skills to improve our interaction with others, including:

• Self-Management: More like how you treat yourself. The way you treat yourself will be reflected when you treat other. Usually, though!
• Team Work : Obviously because you are in an organization, you will cooperate with a lot of people with different background. Thus, your way to work together will vary and you must adapt it. Basically by…
• Communication: This is the most important thing. To know what one need? Talk about it. To achieve goal together? Talk about it. Having a personal conflict? Talk about it. There’s no way, without communicate, you will get what you desire.
• Initiative and Enterprise: Don’t always expect that one thing will come to you just when you’re idling. No. Take a chance. Be the first. Have an initiative to accomplish a task effortfully.
• Problem Solving and Decision Making: Your critical mind will guide you in this point. As long as you always sharpen your mind and always be aware, you are good to go. It is, indeed, a skill that can be improved by practicing. Usually puzzle or even your own personal problem
• Planning and Organizing: Keep everything tidy. You will have a good time knowing where to go and what to do.

Not only six of the mentioned points above, there are also some social skill that you need to enhance by socialize more and more. This way, you are guaranteed to have every skill needed to either become a leader, or even get a raise!

Warning: So short it’s one of the shortest article I have ever write about a summary

Post GO, there’s this one thing called Academic Orientation. I’ll call it AO for short. About AO itself, it’s like a week of trial where you will attend class like an usual college student. Here is how it goes.

Day one is a big class – it’s when a lot of student from a faculty gathers and study in a big room called auditorium. I thought it was cool, until I experienced it. Now I kind of “meh” of it. Anyway, setting my personal opinion aside, we learnt algorithm and I grasp the material pretty quick, so I assume the beginning is smooth.

The day is not over yet as I still have a normal class. We learnt about C, if I recall correctly. Good thing that I have used to coding, so this went smooth too. I went home late and tired.

Day two is another big class, but we’re not learning a new material but a hefty explanation of my curriculum. There’s nothing much to say, to be really honest.

Day three is lab class. I love lab class because I can touch computer. I mastered the material given in no time. Obviously that was the power of computer touching.

And there goes GSLC – Guided Self Learning Class. However, at the same day, HIMTI held HTTP (read my previous post for a summary). In short, no homework.

Day four is a kind of love-hate relationship day. Love because lab class, hate because the class ended at 7 pm.

Day five went normal. I taught my guys and gals about coding in C since the day after that is quiz day (yeah, even during trial!).

Day six. I arrived late. It’s quiz day. I was doomed. Nope, joking. I did the test (not that I’m bragging but) effortlessly. This is just the beginning, for sure. That’s why it’s called “trial”.

And there you have it. I’m not really into summarizing this part of FEP because it went like a normal day, so really there’s nothing special about it.

except payment, which I don’t mention above because why

Damn, me! Back at it again with late posting.

Anyway, obligatory greeting as an opening of a paragraph. Check. As a part of my to-do (actually assignment), I will tell you a summary of what’s happening at HTTP. However, I will introduce you first to what is HTTP and stuffs I will talk about, despite you outsider will forget about this ahead of time, probably because you don’t like a wall of text telling about something you don’t seem to be a part of. Skip three paragraphs to dive into the summary.

HTTP is an abbreviation of HIMTI Togetherness and Top Performance, a big event that is held to welcome us, freshmen of Binusian, especially those who take School of Computer Science. This year, they bring up the big headline of “Passion, Innovation, and Togetherness”, which sums up most of their content for this year’s HTTP.

What about HIMTI? It’s a student association (Himpunan Mahasiswa) that focuses on information technology students (IT, TI in Indonesia, as in Teknologi Industri), thus the name (HIM)(TI). Established as the very first student association in Binus, its motto lies in solidarity and milestones, which they are currently trying to be a global organization. All in all, it is just like a higher level of student council at high school, but with (I hope) more real acts than words. Don’t tell me about my past about student council as I will never bring that up to the surface of my mind.

Now, for the event itself, for this year was held at Auditorium, 3rd Floor of BPPT II, M.H. Thamrin, Central Jakarta, starting at 9 AM until drop. I must admit, it’s the first time I go there and the building is VERY HUGE, doubly so because there’s more than one building. It’s a very very huge place.

Now, the storytelling part. The event starts at 9, but I showed up at 10.30, not because I can but yeah I just want to come at that time. However, I still have to spend some extra time to search for my friends because what does it means to attend a big event, alone, among people who has their own colony? I looked like a moron at that time but I don’t give a hell. After a long scrutinize and phone communication, I joined my friends. It was time for “games for audience” and they’re playing something like “continue the story” thing where one will spit out a word and other should say the word along with his own, creating a longer sentence each turn. Quite hilarious, I should say.

Good thing is that after game is recess time and we got ourselves a free meal and since I hadn’t eat since that morning, I was starving so bad. I explored the place (since it’s huge) and found my other pals and gals. Truth be said, we’re quite bored. Since I spent most of time being a silent explorer (I’m on my full form, ‘yo), I saw so many things. Food & Drink Stands, Bantex Stand (stationary brand), Varsity Jacket PO Stand, and of course a wonderful view of “adults” an open view from a high place filled with people I don’t know who. I was still bored, though, and spent the rest of the recess time wander off with my gang because I had no idea what to do.

The event started again with talk show. I’m not that kind of person who enjoy talk show unless the topic interests me, and since this is a part of the event that is purposely coined to the rundown, I have no choice but listening. Post talk show is something I don’t actually want to talk about – I’m DEAD sleepy, it’s visualization time, it’s going to be noisy. Good God my mental is ready, though I was having a hard time staying awake (sorry). The dance was quite captivating, but the rest is just okay. After that, recess time.

It’s boring since I have explored every place around the area of the event, so I decided to take a nap. Bad for me, as the committees was doing a thorough clean-up, so I was obliged to go out dreadfully. I took some selfie, though.

Recess time was over and it’s floor time, as in attendants are swarming on the floor since the seat had been taken out, leaving us room more than enough. First, there’s dance show. It’s indeed cool, but to justify, it’s not because of the girls. Second, band. Serves us quite a number of songs, both that I know and I don’t know. They delivered the song in a quite unique way, and I enjoyed some part of it. Third, ceremony. This time, we’re accepted as a part of HIMTI members, and it’s the second time we’re officially wore our Alma jacket. I forgot to memorize the march lyrics, and it was obvious that half of the “newly official member” didn’t either. Last but not least, rave party. One of the thing I like the very least. I decided to take a nap, with some consequences. I got stomped once and surrounded by people screaming like I’m a living sacrifice for their God. It’s noisy just with the music, let alone the chants they shouted.

The rave heated up the room and even though I wasn’t doing anything, I was sweating a little bit (compared to some of those party guy who sweats a lot, so much that they took their shirt off, leaving them with singlet). My phone battery drops to 1% and while I was talking to my GOJEK driver, it shut down. Long story short, I came home via TransJakarta and surprised that it had no traffic jam at all! I was indeed grateful for that.

That sums up all what happened in my point of view. If you are a next year freshman, make sure to come with your friends – it will make your stay more memorable (at least you’ll not feel bored alone, that’s it).

HIMTI – ONE FAMILY ONE GOAL

Photos are going to be added very soon – more documentation is indeed a better thing!

When we, Indonesian, talks about school/college orientation, at very least once we remembered such memories from our past self coming to a new school with our new “uniform”. A saddening one, for me. And it is literally consists of tears (it’s not me, but some people did have to shed some). Really. However, that is not what I’m going to discuss right now. It’s the past. Thanks, Mr. Anies Baswedan.

To be honest, I have no clue of Bina Nusantara’s data of college orientation way back then (came from mouth from mouth, a.k.a. rumors!) – whether it’s something like physically and mentally abusive, or even something that would look like ‘one city, couples of cooperative rulers, thousands of pitiful peasants’ (you know what I mean), so I won’t really bother. However, I have to admit that six days of Global Orientation at Binus is quite some memories to keep. Sadly, since it occurred a month ago, I can’t specifically tell you everything, so I will just make a big summary from day one to six.

Day one is one of my quite awkward day in my life. I had to wait for minutes with no clue in mind of where should I go. Since I’m personally not a loud person when I’m at an unknown place filled with unknown people, I don’t have any courage to speak up. Even a single word. I had a huge bottle of water and some bread to eat, but it’s crowded everywhere and if you are like me, you know that you don’t like to eat at a crowded place alone. It’s sort of embarrassing, though I don’t know why. I decided to take a walk around the building for around 10 minutes, but not even close to finding my class. Minutes later after walking upstairs and downstairs numerous times, I happened to realize that the building is actually quite big that it has three long buildings, and my class is on the very back of the building. Good job, me. Also, I somehow spent that day at class being a very quiet person, but not that time when the Buddy Coordinator (BC) gave us a game that obliges me to move around and interact. At that day, I got some self-claimed friends. Huzzah!

Day two is one of the worst. I was low on budget. I have no plain black tux pants to wore. Unwillingly, I had to wear my old black tux pants. Unfortunately, it’s too short. I won’t tell you what I did because it’s embarrassing me. I felt torn up realizing that I had to wear it for the rest of the week. Also, my old black shoes are very rusty. I feel more like a hobo than a freshman. To make it worse, I was a little bit late. Still on-time, but I wanted to make that good impression that I could come on-time for the whole week.

Day three is sort of casual. I have to sat on the row with girls. That happened because one of my unknown class friend moved my bag to that row. I had no choice, and it’s not a big problem for me. Actually, sort of beneficial because now the girls know me as the green hair. For your information, I dyed my hair. Back on topic, I spent some time post-course practicing class cheer.

Day four is quite tiring. Despite the fact that the schedule starts later than days before, I still had the willingness to come early. No, actually, I wanted to help my class making the video for Binus’ 35th birthday. After that, I had to sit on a cozy theater chair for around 5 hours. The Student Activity Unit (known as Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa, UKM) and Student Association (known as Himpunan Mahasiswa Jurusan, HIM Jurusan, followed with major initial) showcase are quite rad. That B-Voice, though, very loud. I was interested in taking Binus Game Dev Club (BGDC) since it sounds cool. There’s one club related with IT, but it costs too much, I had to sell my kidney. I was not planning to join Student IT Association (HIMTI), so that was crossed from my list immediately. Also, everything related to sport because I suck at it. I came back home very late. Thanks, traffic jam.

Day five is high key plain. It doesn’t mean that the material they gave was useless, but I was paying attention (not quite) so I didn’t miss any critical information I have to know. Followed with religion session, which I was actually kind of eh. Later that day, my class practiced class cheer again.

Last day is very hype. Though we (me and my class) didn’t make it to show our cheer perfectly, it’s quite entertaining to watch others. Not to mention a sudden student performance and buddy cheer. After that, came the EXPO, consists all of UKM and HIM Jurusan. I played around a little bit while walking because I have to admit that they showed their best at that time to attract us students. Sadly, I lost my words (again) when I showed up at BGDC room. I decided to cancel my plan, and ended up wandering around the building and played chinese chess. After the EXPO, my class did some splendid photo shots. Not to mention I achieved my full potential of being loud that I gained so much friends (like they weren’t before?)

I think that sums all of my journey during my Global Orientation. All in all, I feel glad that I’m with this cool class.

BBN01 student – PERKASA!

afterwords: You may notice that I canceled my plan on joining BGDC and may wonder what did I join. I ended up not joining any UKM nor HIM Jurusan (which I can only choose HIMTI), so yeah. Derp.