NTU UEE

Week 5, Semester 2 (a.k.a. Buddhism Awareness Week)

16 February 2014 • Journal, Notes

16 February 2014

This week had been a physically the most tiring one. NTUBS held a special project called Buddhism Awareness Week (BAW) to raise awareness about Buddhism which lasted for 5 days starting from the Monday. …

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2013 in Review

31 December 2013 • Hopes, Notes

31 December 2013

Many things happened in 2013, just like in 2012. The following lists what have happened to me in 2013:

January: The New Year holiday was spent with family and friends. After that I focused on the university entrance examinations. In end of January, NUS UEE was held.
February: After NTU UEE in early February, here comes the Chinese New Year (packed with The Wonder of Science).
March: I GOT ACCEPTED TO NTU! Besides, the school held the final school exam. I also held a mini programming contest at the programming club.
April: I went to Jakarta to attend NTU Scholarship Interview, but I failed to get the scholarship. This month is the last month of studying in high school (my story of last day of school). After we got a national examinations, the school held a prom nite and our class held a farewell trip.
May: the starting point of the transition from a high school student to a university student. I’ve done my CS188.1x: Artificial Intelligence, taught programming at the programming club, joined TWoS, restarted my LM project, started Introduction to Pyschology, and resurrecting the desktop computer. Like last year, I posted my thoughts for Vesak Day. By the way, I got the news that I’ve passed the National Examination.
June started with me getting my report card and National Examination results; going for the first photo session with Mr. Johnson; continuing Introduction to Psychology; starting First Year Composition 2.0; stopping LM2 and starting LM2C. Next weeks, I continued the MOOCs; SSEC meeting (which resulted in drafting a “constitution”); and met seniors of NTU in an informal meeting.
On July, I started many things while some old ones are finished or discontinued. On the 3rd week, my form-teacher, Mr. Manaek Nababan, passed away. On the last week of July, I tidied my stuffs; and started to supervise PJJ OSN.
On August, I arrived at NTU, joined PINTU’s FOC, started many first things. Many events we held on the first weeks, e.g. NTUSU Welcome Week, NTUBS Welcome Tea, NTUBS subcomm recruitment, NTU OSS Welcome Tea, Hall XI Welcome Tea, NTUBS AGM, PINTU’s T-SPRAY.
On September, OSN 2013 was held, this time I was watching the scoreboard movements hoping that my juniors can score well. Then, I bought new laptop! Also ordered a Microsoft Surface RT. I was getting more and more busier this month, hopefully the end of September is e-learning week and then recess week.
My birthday is on October, and got celebrated. I finished many assignments, collected my Surface RT, then attended NTUBS Committee Day. End of October is the pre-climax of my semester.
November started with the climax of my semester: quizzes, speech assignment, and presentation which I survived all of them. After that, the weeks are quite relaxing. The last classes were held, and there comes the revision week which ended with a first examination. November ended with more examinations.
December started with the passing of my grandfather and the end of examinations, also the very first Indonesian SCE freshies outing. Before going back to my hometown, I joined a 4-day bootcamp held by NTU Ventures with speaker from Mozilla. In my hometown, the weeks are spent variously on playing games, developing game, and joining MOOC.

Here comes the end of 2013, happy new year 2014. This blog is never been this crowded before. Thank you for being an audience of my stories. May the blog be filled with more posts in terms of quantity and quality.

P.S. see my year in review from Facebook.

4 February 2013 • Life Goes On

Last Saturday and Sunday, I had my NTU UEE at SMA St. Thomas Medan.

It was my first time to enter SMA St. Thomas. It was quite nice, the students still having activities in the school after school hours, like playing basketball, table tennis, and dancing. But, their toilets were not: it was very dirty, somewhat unmaintained.

We took the examination at the school’s hall, no air conditioner were available [at the hall]. We were supposed to be sweaty, but hopefully it rained, and it was quite cool.

On Saturday, I had Mathematics (1300-1500), then English (1630-1830). I got some errors in my Maths. I’m worried the most on English: I think I messed up on the writing section, there were 2 topics to be chosen, but none of them is kind of my interest: increasing divorce rate; and increasing attention on fashion.

On Sunday, I had Physics (0850-1050) and Chemistry (1130-1330). The Physics test was a little bit late because the invigilator said that they got an accident. After some asking by a parent, we found out that one of two invigilator on Saturday’s test got robbed on Jl Semarang, the street full of Chinese foods. Okay, when I’m doing Physics, it was not quite difficult, but after exam, I realized that some of my working were erroneous.

For Chemistry, it was lonesome, there were just around 30 people joining that test. I can say that the test were somewhat the same difficulty as NUS one, the MCQ was easier, but the essay was tricky. And for some questions, I got no idea on solving them.

After exam, I discussed a little with Hartono until we met his father, chatting with my father. I and my family went to have lunch at Njo Nja, a restaurant near that school. Then, we went home.

It was finally over. The preparation started from 3 years ago, and the exam just lasted for 2 hours each. I wish for them accepting me. :)

UEE

23 January 2013 • Life Goes On

The University Entrance Examination will be held soon! NUS UEE will be held on 26-27 January 2013 at Grand Aston Hotel, while NTU UEE will be held on 2-3 February 2013 at SMA St. Thomas. I’ve selected to join Physics and Chemistry paper besides the compulsory ones, Mathematics and English. I’ve been worrying about those all, what if I messed up, what if my time ran out, what if I didn’t finish them, what if I didn’t have any slightest idea to solve them. In the end, I’ll share the quote which is common to each TOKI members:

Good luck have fun!