Helloww peeps! Today I'm gonna post something different than usual. It's a blog post that I used to enter a blogging competition in the college I'm studying in, INTI College Indonesia.
Its about my life there in a university and how it changed my life. Do comment what you think about it! Thanks!
A big step
I once wonder what it would be like to be a student in a college. Will it be as fun as what we saw in movies? Will my friends be cool? What should I wear when I don't have a uniform? What is it like to be independent? Will we still need to do loads of homework? Will I skip classes with friends?
I entered INTI College when I was about to turn 14. Can you imagine how many questions I have? I was worried that everyone would look down on me. I hate how everyone thinks that I'm still too young and I'm worried how if my seniors turn out to be my junior? Wouldn't that be awkward?
Too many questions in my mind needed to be answered but nobody seems to know how to explain it to me. I asked my sister, she said that it’s not as easy as it sounds or fun as it seems, she said I need to experienced it by myself in order to know. Day by day I waited for the orientation day to come. The night before the orientation I can't even sleep! I can't wait to see what kind of friends I will meet. But on the other hand I'm also worried if I can't make friends with them or made a bad impression. I'm quite relieved when I heard that my senior from my high school, Peter will be entering INTI with me!
I love making new friends and having lot of friends, that's why I don't like to be alone and I don't feel safe too. So when the day came, I find for a seat and constantly keep looking for Peter as he is the only person I know there. We were then separated into groups and played some games, introduced to the staff and of course were told the rules and regulations of the college. I had so much fun and I felt like, "Hey this wasn't that bad?”
I had to return the next day for my first class of the semester. Bought a bunch of new stationeries, paper and dressed nicely that day. Actually I was quite worried I couldn't make friends because I'm not really good in making friends with girls. This has always been my problem since primary school. I don't really know why but I get along with boys faster, well maybe because they are not really that sensitive compared to girls or I just haven't found the right girlfriend yet.
Studying in college is way different from school. We need to check our own schedule and know the class which is being used and etc. It’s not as easy as school where we don't really need to pass every subject to be able to go to the next level. If we fail, we still need to take the same class for the next semester. It’s all in our own hand, whether we want to be a good student, maintain a good mark and get a merit award, or be the kid who fail in every subject and still won't try their best.
At lunch I made friends with a bunch of girls who were 2-3 years older than me. They were quite cool at first and hanging out with them is like being the popular girls in school. We were the loudest in the canteen; walk in groups and even the teachers are annoyed by us. I almost forgot that I'm turning to the kind of person I used to hate. Day by day went by, by the end of the semester when my birthday was coming, they made a gap with me, stop seating beside me and started to talk behind my back. It’s like I haven't left high school at all and the "drama" is still there. When my birthday came I really wished that they are planning a surprise for me, despite how much I know that it's not going to happen. When I went to school that day all the girls just said to me Happy Birthday without looking me in the eye and just went away like that. I didn't know why, but I cried, the tears couldn't stop, so I went to the toilet and locked myself away. They confronted me with all the words I couldn’t bear to hear on my birthday that made it a memory of my birthday I will never forget.
But of course problems went away and I tried to bury those memories. I decided to start a new semester, skipped my foundation and took my diploma. I made new friends of course, but this time I could actually relate to them, maybe because they are much older than me. I am still friends with Peter and in fact became his best friend! But even though I'm now with people who are much older than me, there are still dramas. So what I can say is that drama exists everywhere you go. However, I want to thank all the people who did the things they did to me, all the things happened for a reason, they taught me a lesson and also made me a better person I am today.
I also became active in INTI's student body organization, INTIMA and helped them to make lots of events. I made friends with a lot of friendly staff from INTI and even went to meetings with them. Being a member of INTIMA really is a great thing I will never regret. I get to learn things that not all students can even know while they are studying in a university. I learned how to make a proposal, convinced the principal about the events I was about to make and all the other process of making events. Actively participating in an organization really made me realize that only studying is not enough, you need to get into the field to be able to know!
I'm turning 16 this year, INTI College have been the place where I learned things I never knew, the place where I understand the bitter sweet of life, the place where the staffs and teachers takes care of me while I'm turning into a teenager. I'm friends with all the marketing staffs, helped them and also the other way around. The teachers talk about things with me, helped me. Even people who most people won't realize like the auntie from the canteen, Andry the photocopy guy, babeh the security guard or Pak Sipri the maintenance are all very friendly. Being in a university not only made me realize things I never knew before, it changed my life and changed me in every way. I found true friends like Peter and Michelle, I even found true love. It’s not only about studying and getting good marks, and doing all your assignments, it’s about making the right choices of your own and when you did, you just made a big step in your life which you don't even realize.
- Posted from my iPad xoxo KarinZhou don't forget to comment ;)
Twitter, Facebook: @KarinZhou
Its about my life there in a university and how it changed my life. Do comment what you think about it! Thanks!
A big step
I once wonder what it would be like to be a student in a college. Will it be as fun as what we saw in movies? Will my friends be cool? What should I wear when I don't have a uniform? What is it like to be independent? Will we still need to do loads of homework? Will I skip classes with friends?
I entered INTI College when I was about to turn 14. Can you imagine how many questions I have? I was worried that everyone would look down on me. I hate how everyone thinks that I'm still too young and I'm worried how if my seniors turn out to be my junior? Wouldn't that be awkward?
Too many questions in my mind needed to be answered but nobody seems to know how to explain it to me. I asked my sister, she said that it’s not as easy as it sounds or fun as it seems, she said I need to experienced it by myself in order to know. Day by day I waited for the orientation day to come. The night before the orientation I can't even sleep! I can't wait to see what kind of friends I will meet. But on the other hand I'm also worried if I can't make friends with them or made a bad impression. I'm quite relieved when I heard that my senior from my high school, Peter will be entering INTI with me!
I love making new friends and having lot of friends, that's why I don't like to be alone and I don't feel safe too. So when the day came, I find for a seat and constantly keep looking for Peter as he is the only person I know there. We were then separated into groups and played some games, introduced to the staff and of course were told the rules and regulations of the college. I had so much fun and I felt like, "Hey this wasn't that bad?”
I had to return the next day for my first class of the semester. Bought a bunch of new stationeries, paper and dressed nicely that day. Actually I was quite worried I couldn't make friends because I'm not really good in making friends with girls. This has always been my problem since primary school. I don't really know why but I get along with boys faster, well maybe because they are not really that sensitive compared to girls or I just haven't found the right girlfriend yet.
Studying in college is way different from school. We need to check our own schedule and know the class which is being used and etc. It’s not as easy as school where we don't really need to pass every subject to be able to go to the next level. If we fail, we still need to take the same class for the next semester. It’s all in our own hand, whether we want to be a good student, maintain a good mark and get a merit award, or be the kid who fail in every subject and still won't try their best.
At lunch I made friends with a bunch of girls who were 2-3 years older than me. They were quite cool at first and hanging out with them is like being the popular girls in school. We were the loudest in the canteen; walk in groups and even the teachers are annoyed by us. I almost forgot that I'm turning to the kind of person I used to hate. Day by day went by, by the end of the semester when my birthday was coming, they made a gap with me, stop seating beside me and started to talk behind my back. It’s like I haven't left high school at all and the "drama" is still there. When my birthday came I really wished that they are planning a surprise for me, despite how much I know that it's not going to happen. When I went to school that day all the girls just said to me Happy Birthday without looking me in the eye and just went away like that. I didn't know why, but I cried, the tears couldn't stop, so I went to the toilet and locked myself away. They confronted me with all the words I couldn’t bear to hear on my birthday that made it a memory of my birthday I will never forget.
But of course problems went away and I tried to bury those memories. I decided to start a new semester, skipped my foundation and took my diploma. I made new friends of course, but this time I could actually relate to them, maybe because they are much older than me. I am still friends with Peter and in fact became his best friend! But even though I'm now with people who are much older than me, there are still dramas. So what I can say is that drama exists everywhere you go. However, I want to thank all the people who did the things they did to me, all the things happened for a reason, they taught me a lesson and also made me a better person I am today.
I also became active in INTI's student body organization, INTIMA and helped them to make lots of events. I made friends with a lot of friendly staff from INTI and even went to meetings with them. Being a member of INTIMA really is a great thing I will never regret. I get to learn things that not all students can even know while they are studying in a university. I learned how to make a proposal, convinced the principal about the events I was about to make and all the other process of making events. Actively participating in an organization really made me realize that only studying is not enough, you need to get into the field to be able to know!
I'm turning 16 this year, INTI College have been the place where I learned things I never knew, the place where I understand the bitter sweet of life, the place where the staffs and teachers takes care of me while I'm turning into a teenager. I'm friends with all the marketing staffs, helped them and also the other way around. The teachers talk about things with me, helped me. Even people who most people won't realize like the auntie from the canteen, Andry the photocopy guy, babeh the security guard or Pak Sipri the maintenance are all very friendly. Being in a university not only made me realize things I never knew before, it changed my life and changed me in every way. I found true friends like Peter and Michelle, I even found true love. It’s not only about studying and getting good marks, and doing all your assignments, it’s about making the right choices of your own and when you did, you just made a big step in your life which you don't even realize.
- Posted from my iPad xoxo KarinZhou don't forget to comment ;)
Twitter, Facebook: @KarinZhou
I hate study in INTI Jkt! Why all the good lecture replace by stup*d lecture?
ReplyDeleteLucky im only last for 1 sems here
I hate the new fat lady lecture! U sould know who i mean
shes so arrogant and her english is WORST! How stupid INTI let her teach us
I wonder how they choose such lousy lecture for us
Better move our ass before those lecture (not all but some) taugh us their low standar teaching methode