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.)