Daily Life on Campus: Extracurricular Activity

By: Dhimas Bagaskoro

Every campus or university has a lot of extracurricular activities. Extracurricular activities on campus
are various. These activities are various because they are provided for students’ hobby. As an example,
students who like sports could join kind of sports clubs like karate, football, basketball, and so on.
Also some students prefer academic activity. They would join academic club activities like journalistic,
research, and so on.

Joining club in campus brings you a lot of advantages. First, you will learn something that not taught in
class. As an example, you join karate club and learn about self defense. That knowledge would not taught
in class. Second, you will found a lot of various friends. You would meet various friends because club
members not only from one faculty but also different faculties. As a result, you can share and exchange
your experience with them.

Before you join a club, you have to pay attention to several things. First, you should join club that suit
your hobby. If you join club you dislike, you will get bored easily. Thus, you won’t get anything from the
club. Second, you have to manage your schedule and time well. Sometimes, you found club activities
busy and more exciting. Therefore, you forget your obligation to study. That would be bad for you. In
order to solve the problem, you must manage your time well between 2 activities: club activity and
study.

UM Car Free Day

        On April 25, 2013, you would not see any car and motorcycle around in State University of Malang because there was a ‘UM Car Free Day’.  This event was held to celebrate the Earth Day which is on April 23. Everyone who brought car and motorcycle had to park their vehicle in the outside of campus. There were some park area outside UM’s gate which were in Ambarawa street, Veteran street, Surabaya street, and Semarang street.    Of course, this event got a lot of good response, included from me.

       I think UM car free day is a great idea for me. First, because there was no motorcycle and car around, I could take a breath from a fresh air. Secondly, everyone who could walk around with no worries, as for me I could enjoy the view that I could not do when riding a motorcycle. Next reason, even though it was a dog day, I can burn some calories from walking, I believe that I made us healthier than before. I think UM should make this event again in the future.

                

Girlfriend Effect

Most of the college students have a girlfriend. Having a girlfriend give a different effect to different people. Some might think that girlfriend make study become so hard because the time that should be spend to study, become wasted because of girlfriend. For example, a girlfriend usually need someone to share her problem, and the boyfriend will be the one who she looking for. When the girlfriend start to tell the boyfriend about her problem, automatically, the boyfriend will start to thinking what is the best solution for her girlfriend problem, and because of that no time to study for the boyfriend. On the other hand, study become more enjoyable because, they use the girlfriend as a motivation, and they become more excited when studying.

Studying+Working? Why Not?

     I think we, as a student should take a part time works. The first reason is we learn how to take responsibilities, at least for ourselves. Second, we can get extra pocket money from it. So, we can buy something with our own money or we can just save it. Third, by working we will make new friends and new people, it makes us get wider connection. Fourth, we can get new experiences of course! We can learn from our experiences and apply it in the future.

    As for me, I have been working as a part-time waitress since last December. I can get a lot of  benefits, but still many people underestimated my job. First, because the job is not really well-paid as the other job (such as a private teacher or shopkeeper). Secondly, many people think that being waitress  is not 'cool', because we have to serve people, we are ordered around, and we have to make sure the table and and place are clean. 

How to Stop Skip-Lesson Habit

By:  Dhimas Bagaskoro

In daily campus life, we see our friends skip lesson in our class. When we go to the campus, we see our friends enjoying themselves in other places. Sometimes, we want to follow them skip lesson too, but we should not do that even for once. Usually, student who tries to skip lesson will be addicted to skip lesson in other time.

A lot of university students do not aware bad effect caused by skipping lesson. This is happens because irresponsibility of university students. Sometimes, they skip lesson too much that caused them fail in certain subjects. If this keep go on, this will affect greatly in student’s achievement. If students get bad achievement, they will get drop out from university. Furthermore, what they did for their better future will be nothing if they fail.

Skip lesson is bad habit but it can be stopped. Here is special technique to stop the habit. First, if you want skip lesson, try to remember what your parent did for your study. So, you will feel guilty and your bad intention to skip lesson will be lost. Second, you have to choose your friend wisely. You have make friend with diligent person. Through that way, his or her good habit will influence you to leave the bad habit. That is all method I can give to you. I hope you success to leave the bad habit.

Exciting Paragraph Writing Class,.. ^^

My Paragraph Writing Class is so exciting. Every time I attend to this class I got very excited because, first of all, my lecturer is so pretty, when I saw her walking in front of the class to start the class, she was smiled and it's built my mood to study in this class. Second, the way she explaining the topic is so clear, I always understand what she explain so I can do any practices in my book. Third, one of the topic is "Facebook  assigment", it get me so excited because not only I am working in facebook but also, I can get along with my other classmates by give comment to their paragraph that they post in facebook group. And the most exciting thing that make me so excited is, we asked to create a blog and fill the blog with our paragraph just like what I wrote now.

My last Paragraph Writing Class is so boring. First, the lecturer is an old woman. Second, The way she explaining the topic was not clear at all. Finally, She always late, and that's always ruined my mood to study.

I really enjoy your class ma'am. Thanks for your hard work to keep me understand for what should I do in the class,.. :D

Morning Classes

 There are several factors that make morning classes is really hard to attend. And I always late for them.First of all, is because the distance from my home to university is far enough. Second, is the traffic, I always get stuck in the traffic jam. That's really make me annoyed. The most fatal factor is the time I wake up, because if I wake up late, I'll stuck in the traffic jam, and that's the only reason that always make me late for morning classes.
 
 Once, I late for 30 minutes, this was my first class in this semester. I just standing in front of the door, I didn't have courage to knock the door and say "I am sorry, I am late". I stand for 3 minutes, and when I finally have courage to knock the door, 2 students passing by and I suddenly turn around and pretend to sending text massages. After the they gone, I turn around and just stand. it give me several minutes to gather my courage just to knock the door. But, when I almost knock the door, they passing me again, and I do my previous action, pretend to sending text massage. When they're gone I turn around and face the door, My heart beat so fast, and finally I knock the door, and I can catch the class, I late for 45 minutes,.. :'(

A brand new start...

Friendship starts here!!

I've been being a college student for almost a year. Back then, I was so afraid that I couldn't make any friends. Yeah, I'm an introvert and can take initiative to talk first. Fortunately, I can make friends now! And I made my first 'new' friend in university through blog, here is the story...

Before new students orientation, I made a post about "what-have-to-bring"checklist in my 'own' blog (you can see it here!). I was so surprised, because viewer's number increased significantly. There are also some people who have commented on that post. One of them is Virda, the second person who commented on that post. We started to talk a lot. We have same interest and  unexpectedly we got same class! Start from there become a 'real' friend.

So, I think  friendship is not only start from face-to-face but also from blog, facebook, twitter, omegle, etc. I hope I can make new friend  from this blog. So, don't mind to comment this post, I'll waiting for it :D

With love,

Septa