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.

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.