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.
