Hello, you beautiful people! I’m gonna tell you about the stuff that’s been happening in the FEP or Freshman Enrichment Program at Binus University which i participated from General Orientation to Academic Orientation. Let’s not dawdle any longer shall we?
General Orientation
The General Orientation(GO if it’s shortened) was the first batch in ABN16. I was actually late when I got in class because I actually got lost on the way to Syahdan T_T, as I got in class my classmates were already introducing themselves in front of the class. TBH, I was expecting the orientation to be like when you first start in Junior High/High School. BUT THANK GOD IT’S NOT LIKE THAT! Unlike a friend of mine who underwent an unforgiving orientation which I’m not gonna talk about any further. Here, you’re actually introduced to the seniors/senpais/BC (Buddy Coordinator) or whatever you want to call them lol, I just call them senpais :D. So we went through with the self introduction and got informed that we have to wear a white short sleeved shirt and black pants temporarily for the General Orientation. So it went on as usual with no problems at all although our class were struggling to create a Class Yell which we have to, we decided on using Captain Tsubasa’s song (I’m not joking, it was really fun lol) with the lyrics edited by the class obviously.
Bunga Rampai
Ahhh, yes… This is where the club gets shown one by one. We were lucky that our class got front row seat, best seat in the auditorium. And I was genuinely surprised… There’s A LOT of clubs! From religious club to sports club to hobby clubs! I was intrigued by a few of them and decided to join two clubs (Hope to GOD their club activities doesn’t have the same day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds cause there will be problems!… for me anyway.)
Last day of GO
This happened at the last day of the General Orientation. We have to write a letter to our BC’s and give it to them (I wrote it in full English cause I’m not good at putting words together in Indonesian even though I AM Indonesian… Which is weird) So I meet up with my class near the ATM’s in Syahdan and waited for the others to arrive. After everyone’s there we went up to a room where you sign up for HTTP which I did sign up for. It’s worth it!!! so after all of that our BC let us walk around the campus freely and meet up before the last event starts. So I walked around, looked at all the stands (Well… not all of them, I think I missed a few) but there’s two that caught my eye, and that is the BGDC and Nippon Club (Yes, I’m a bit of a weeb) as I mentioned above, this is the two club that I joined. After we’re done looking around, we then head to the Gym I think? There was a basketball ring so I assumed it was a Gym. We then sat down with our class and perform our Class Yell. It was really fun with every class there’s always something you wouldn’t expect! After it ends we went home and then the next event came up which I’m gonna talk about..
Inauguration
This is the event that marks the beginning of a new generation of Binus Students (Why did I wrote it like that? I don’t know. Just played Dragon Age so… I don’t know :/) so this event takes place in JCC or Jakarta Convention Center where we officially gets acknowledge as a student of Binus University. There’s a lot of stuff that happened there.A Live Binus TV Broadcast, Performance by a few 2019 Binusian, and an Instagram competition (I don’t have an Instagram and my phone sucks so I didn’t participate =3) It was an awesome experience and it’s my first inauguration.
Academic Orientation
This is where we learned basic stuff mainly Algorithms for my class (I’m in GAT btw) and that’s where we meet our Sensei =3 Albertus Agung-sensei or AG-sensei using the initials, taught us the basics of algorithms where we use codes and commands to create a simple program. Not only that, but we also learned about how to make mindmaps and the importance of reading in college. I also learned about the course that you could take near the end of the semester, the GAT Club (I want in! PLEASE LET ME IN THE CLUB!), and the study tour in the GAT Program (I want to go to japan) on the last day of Academic Orientation which is a few days earlier, you have a test to show how well you understand algorithms overall. There’s also a theoretical question which I’m NOT gonna spoil but take my words. The written question was easy if you’re creative but the main problem lies with the Algorithm question and HOLY SALAMANDER CUTTLEFISH! It was hard… well for me at least, as I have no programming experience whatsoever. But I managed to solve two problems which is still incorrect according to the system (I typed the format wrong, my fault) but this actually gives you an idea of how the test are going to be at Binus University and begs you to practice more and more. Before I end this, there’s one more event that really blew my mind. And that is…
HTTP 2015
THIS! THIS IS THE EVENT THAT ONLY WE FROM SOCS GOT! AND IT WAS EPIC!!!! There’s like a ton of awesome stuff that’s happened during that event. A band performance, A talk show, a guest appearance by Rianti Duke, A drama, A dance, We get to see a movie, A Frickin’ DJ Show?! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT! But in all seriousness as always it exceeded my expectations. The band performances were Awesome, the talk show was Inspiring, the DJ Show was a frickin’ blast! It’s probably my first time going crazy and just let loose! (Notice how a few of it was my first time experiencing something like DJ Show and stuff? Well… I’m kind of an Introvert so that answers your question lol) although it went on until night, I never felt tired at all! The DJ Show in particular pumped me up! When It was like 6PM or something I went to pray with my friends and I can still hear the music. Guess nothing stops music :D. So after it was over, we head back to Anggrek and parted ways (We got the third bus so it was late when I got home, considering that the distance between my house and Anggrek campus are more or less 10km) and that’s what I experienced through FEP. Overall there were some tough moments, happy moments and pure frustrating moments (you know what I’m talking about) and anyway that’s it for my experience at FEP if you read this through to the end… How did you put up with it lol. Anyway I appreciate you for reading this and this is Blackcat going dark!