QuSac - An association for all SQS students

Introduction

Again, one week is over when I am typing this post. As my post goes more and more, I am going to be more specific, come narrowly closer to my course, that is Business Mathematics.

Orientation, add drop session and the first two academic weeks went very fast. It is already more than 20 days I am here, in UUM, as a Business Mathematics major student.

Week 3 comes

Week 3, em… I am already adapted to the UUM life but still have no idea on what to write about my course, haha. Maybe I need to wait for two or three weeks before I could be able to write something that can contribute to all of you, not making you sleep by turning this blog into a Maths lecture.

Therefore, about what I learn in my course, I will only share them to you after Week 6 for my Semester 1, please be patient. Alright, in this post, I actually want to share with you on Quantitative Sciences Association (or we know it as QuSac), an association which takes care and plans programs for SQS students.

My own experience in getting into QuSac

The moment I know about this association was when I saw the Whatsapp notice that got viral in the SQS Whatsapp group when somebody repost the news. This was the negative impact of spamming a group with unnecessary messages. The interview was almost over when I noticed and I quickly rushed to the QuSac room after my last class on that day.

Luckily, the door was still opened to me. The interview was not like an interview but was more likely a chat between me and the interviewers. We chatted happily. I did not even feel any stress. Maybe, this could be the result when we face anything with an usual attitude.

I could feel that the interviewers were confident of me after the interview, even though I was late for around 15 minutes. I really thank them since they are really understanding.

Being selected

Unexpectedly, I was selected as the exco of QuSac! And, now we are going to do something like ice breaking to SQS students in the upcoming week. These are my personal experience in my interview for QuSac.

Indeed, I told the interviewers on how diligent I was when I was in Matriculation. By becoming the head of 2 and taking part of 4 out of total of 5 volunteering activities being held in my Matriculation college, I think I succeed in making their trust to me and select me as an exco.

What is QuSac?

Now, let me have a short briefing on what QuSac is. QuSac is actually an association which actively organizes a lot of activities foe SQS students, for example Ice Breaking and Student Interactive Day. Apart from that, QuSac is also focusing on the academic performance of SQS students and forms academic programs which can improve their performance. QuSac actually plays a role like the association in the other school in UUM.

That is all I can talk for QuSac. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for my next post!

2017-09-28

1.00 pm

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That Perturbing Moment

                Happy belated Malaysia Day to all of my Malaysia friends! This post was initially planned to be released on 16^th of September but then was postponed because I had an outing on that day. I was too busy to write a post.

                Well, in this release, I am going to share my own experience to all of you on the “add drop session” in UUM that was the event that happened exactly after the orientation week. Perhaps this also happened in the other universities. Only other universities may use a different name or different progress.

The first batch 

                My batch is actually the first batch to be given the chance to add or drop online for the subjects we took for our respective course. The batch before was not given the opportunity therefore they were forced to follow whatever that was already in their timetable. They could only do manual add drop but our batch can do both manual and online add drop.

                What being planned and what actually happened are always different but it is better to have a plan rather than going ahead without any goal or direction. This add drop session really made me suffer when I had to do a lot of plans including Plan A, B and C on the eve of the add drop day.

                The add drop session will last for around 3 days and 12 hours. However, most of the students will be waiting in front of their gadgets to login to their portal and preparing themselves to grab the time session they preferred. Same went to me.

Long time planning

                On the day before the add drop session, I planned until 1 am for around 3 hours. I even missed the call from my family. Luckily, I succeed to come out with at least one perfect plan for my own after the 3-hours-work.

                With the advice from my senior before my plan, I made up a plan with the most strategic locations and the most appropriate time session. Among the advice are do not arrange the time until 5.30 pm since it is really exhausting and make sure there are as less gap as we can between two subjects.

Manual add drop started earlier

                As what I said earlier, what I planned was a little bit different from what happened on the next day. On the next day, I did not have any classes in the morning. The add drop session started from 12 pm so I still have some time looking back at my plans and do some adjustment. What surprised me was the manual add drop session started at 9 am!

                This really made me nervous. Since I was new here, I was lost in finding the exact location for the manual add drop session. Together with my friends, we quickly went to the bus station and rushed to the School of Computing (SOC), that was the first school providing manual add drop session by boarding a bus.

                We reached there around 11.15 am. It was quite late. Since the online add drop session had not started yet, we rushed here and there to search for the SOC lab. My friends reached a little bit late since they missed the station in front of the SOC. We were accidentally separated by the crowd in the bus.

Different schools responsible for their own students

                The lecturer-in-charge in SOC helped me in the manual add drop session. What surprised me was then she suddenly spoke out some words.

                “You are not supposed to be here. You are not SOC students but SQS.”

                The words made me nearly laughed. On that moment only I know that the students must go to their respective school for the manual add drop. On the same time, I realized that SOC was the only school which opened for that session on the particular moment.

A nice lecturer

                Luckily, that lecturer was quite good and still help me although I am not their student. I  succeed in getting the courses I want according to my plan. However, one of the subjects was full and the empty session did not match my need. In the end, I was only be able to register for 17 credit hours in this semester, which differs from my original plan that was 20 credit hours.

                For most of the students, I am sure you had been giving up and continued with that 17 credit hours throughout the semester. However, I am not that kind of person who will simply say, “Enough already” and continue with what had being set for you.

Determination... Success

                In two days after the add drop session, I thought of the pros and cons of having 20 credit hours rather than 17 credit hours in the first semester. Finally, on the second day before the add drop session ended, I made up my mind to go to the school that the subject belongs to and fill in the appeal form.

                I told the staff who was in-charge that day that I was determined to take the subject this semester since I desired to shorten my studies. Up to my surprise, my appeal was approved in just an hour. Although the group given to me was not what I appeal before, but at least I succeed in getting a course that was fully occupied by other students!

Moral of the story

                In conclusion, you can see the power of determination. As long as you are determined, do not stop halfway. Go ahead with it and I am sure you will get what you desired, just like life.

                That is all for today, I hope that you enjoy reading this and enjoy your day as well.

                Thanks for reading! :-)

2017-09-19

10.13 am

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(p/s: The subjects I took for this semester are Discrete Mathematics, Calculus I, Data Expository and Generalization, Ethnic Relationship, Malaysian Nationhood Studies, Business Accounting and also co-curriculum (we call it as ko k). The next post will be on the brief explanation of the subjects I took in this semester.)

Adapt, Adopt and Accept

   Well, it is another half month from my previous post. I am finally being registered as an official UUM student pursuing Bachelor of Science (Hons) Business Mathematics student on 5^th of September that was Tuesday last week after my long journey of 4 hours and a half from my hometown, Pantai Remis.

 As what you can see from here, the highway is still dark. It was around 5 am. :-)

The first day

On the first day that was the registration day, my family and I departed from our home at around 3.30 am. It was really early. We have no choice since UUM is really far from our house.

Since I needed to settle my JPA stuff on the same day, we stopped at Jitra for a while to have our breakfast. Jitra was quite big but it is still 30 minutes from UUM. We stayed there until 8 something and then we departed to UUM.

 We ate at a stall near the LHDN Jitra. The food was a little bit expensive but we had no choice since we are rushing to LHDN and also UUM for registration. The nasi lemak were just put on the table and you can choose as how many as you want. But then, they will charge you. I think they had calculated wrongly for the bill I supposed to pay since it was much cheaper than what we calculated.

The nasi lemak looks special. It was not the usual white santan rice that we have. Otherwise, the rice was cooked with kunyit.

Reached at UUM

We reached at UUM around 9 am. The traffic on that time was really congested. The traffic jam lasts for around 15 minutes before we could enter UUM. 

There are a lot of cars in front of our car. The blue paper aside was actually the clue for the guard to determine which way we are going to use in UUM in order to reach our hostel (or we call it as INASIS)

  UUM is actually quite big. I was quite surprised when I heard from our Student Affairs Vice Cancellor Assistant that UUM is around 162 hectars wide and is the largest public university in Malaysia. There are around 15 INASIS (or Student Residential Hall) for UUM students.

  My INASIS is in GRANTT. The registration starts by giving the original documents to the facilitators (faci) there to check whether they are the right documents as what they want.

  There were 2 types of registration. One was INASIS registration, another one was academic registration. We did both at the main office. 

This is the student private file given to us. We had to arrange all the certified photocopied documents in the file according to the sequence being provided. Beautiful file right? (But, this is not for us, we need to submit to our school then)

  In UUM, we call our learning center as school, that is totally different from other universities that call it faculty. I am of course, the student of the School of Quantitative Sciences (SQS).

  Oh, ya before I forgot, we then went to Varsity Mall for lunch and printing. I went there along with my family.

This was my first lunch in UUM, with my family. Honestly, the food was not very delicious here, haha. In my opinion lah. But, different people have different views, who knows?

  My family left me at around 1.30 pm. If you asked me whether I was homesick after that, I will admit yes. But, only a few minutes, haha. Suddenly that kind of blur, like don’t know what to do for a while but then quickly became ok already. (This is why to juniors, choose to enter matriculation at pre-u level, it will help you suiting well in Degree)

Orientation

The orientation really made us tired. We almost woke up at 5 am and slept at 2 am. A lot of talks had been given to us since the first day of orientation. I am not going to tell you the talks here so that you wont be bored with my post.

Oh ya, this is Varsity Mall (vmall). Something like a shopping mall that you always see but more to mini market.

  Apart from the talks, we were also guided by our faci to surround the university so that we are more familiar with UUM. I went to my school and also had a look at the Lecture Hall. Walking and walking were really tired. Luckily, we are not going to do this later in our class. Actually in UUM, there are buses that will always board us here and there.

This is the opened hall of my INASIS. Look great right? But after I visited to other INASIS, I noticed that theirs are much greater, haha.

 The first Indian friend I made in UUM. Hi, deva…

Most of the activities we had during the orientation week were held in this hall(Dewan Muadzam Shah or DMAS). It is a hall with capacity 5000 students and we can only enter for 3 types of agendas throughout our studies, that are orientation, examination and graduation.

My portal activation was carried out here. As the university ranked 6^th, In UUM, the learning process was carried out in portal. Through one account, we can access to all types of facilities. And not forget to tell, the wifi speed in UUM is around 76 Mbps. (This is actually not my school, it is SEFB)

The one and the only Chinese faci in our INASIS. She is really kind and helpful, and cheerful also. The best thing is when the other faci had stopped leading the juniors after the MSK, she were still with us although she was also busy for the starting of the new semester.

This is the cafeteria in the campus area. Em…actually almost the same as the cafe in INASIS, haha. The faci down there is of the same school with me.

MORE…..

Library facilities

Super senior in SQS

The slot Moral. Actually, our batch this time consists of around half of non-muslims.

This is my room. Quite small compared to Matric but convenience.

Photo with my roommate

My friend in KMPP

  

  So, basically, that are all about my orientation in UUM. (not including talks)

  The last night of our orientation was Art Appreciation Night. A lot of performance had been carried out. Here I include parts of the performance.

Thanks for reading! :-)

2017-09-12

11.55 am

#UUMisthebest

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