It is time to start!
Five weeks passed and I am sure you are waiting for my next
post to know something about what is Business Mathematics since 28th
of September. After a few more weeks after the previous post, I finally have
some ideas to talk about the course I am currently pursuing.
Before
I continue my writing, I would like to apologize to all of my beloved readers
to let you waiting for a long time. I am really sorry since after my previous
post, I suddenly encountered a lot of series events and I had no even anytime
to sit and write my post.
Young Motivator Programme
At the
beginning of the October, I attended a programme named “Young Motivator
Programme”. This is actually a selection program for the students in UUM to go
to the UTHM for the next round which will be participated by all the public
universities representatives over the Malaysia. The most interesting thing is
my friends and I do not even know that it is a competition. We just took part
because of the merit marks given. We think that it is just a normal counselling
programme.
The
programme was held in the Islamic Centre. We were shocked when we were told
that we needed to deliver a speech based on the title given to us on the spot
for 3 minutes. Unexpectedly, I received a big hand after the talk.
Unsurprisingly,
I was selected into the semi finale of the programme. After that programme, I
entered several organization under the UUM. For your awareness, there are 18
Chinese organization in UUM. I took part in 2 of them that are Bei Sheng and Bei
Fang Qi Dian Jiu. Bei Sheng takes part in giving useful information to the
Chinese students and also organizes some motivation and interaction programme
for them. Bei Fang Qi Dian Jiu is responsible in developing the hidden
potential among the Chinese students in Music.
I also
attended the Student’s Body Day in UUM from 3rd to 5th of
October. There were 36 clubs altogether in UUM which were registered and not
academic-based. I participated three of them including the Archery Club, the
Chess Club and the Music Club. The role of the clubs, as you can see from the
name of the clubs was to promote the culture and arts among the UUM students.
Mid Semester Break
One
week of Mid Semester Break after that really made me relaxed. This was the
first time I really enjoyed a holiday. This was because we were told that we
would be given a lot of assignments after the break, along with the Mid
Semester Examination. These really made me stressed out. In addition, the
assignments given in a few weeks ago will also be due in two or three weeks
after the mid semester break and need to be presented.
To let
you know, in university life, assignments are rather important for you to score
high pointer compared to final examination. In all the subjects I took in this
semester, 4 of them have a 60% weightage of assignments. One of the subjects
even has a 70% of weightage for the assignments. This proved that assignments
are the most important item that we must score in university.
Young Motivator Program Again...
After
the mid semester break, I attended the semi finale of the Young Motivator
programme. I was asked to clean the stable in the Ekuin Centre of UUM. First of
all, I had to lead the horse out of its stable and tie it at the pole so that
it won’t escape. Next, I had to clean the container being used to serve water
to the horse. Then, I need to clean the faeces and the urine of the horse.
Finally we will prepare the new straws (known as sodas) for the horse. The
whole process was interesting and my teammate and I had a good time there.
However,
I was a little bit sick on that day. Due to the over sweating, I was terribly
cold when I was in the SAC hall. As a result, my mind was also frozen and my
performance during the talk was bad, I guess. As what I expected, I did not
proceed to the next round.
This
experience actually shows that you must be both physically and mentally fit if
you want to be successful. Sometimes, you need to work hard so you need to be
really healthy whenever you want to achieve something.
Brief explanation of the Subjects
Oh ya,
before I forgot, I still remembered that I promised to you that I was going to
share my life in academic aspects apart from the extracurricular aspects so
that you will be more understanding on what Business Mathematics is. Now I am
going to give you some brief explanation on the subjects I took for this
semester.
For
Calculus I, basically it talks about the Differentiation and the Integration and
we will play with one variable only. For Science students who would like to
pursue your studies in this course, it might not a problem but for Accounting
students, you need to be prepared with trigonometric sense (that sin, cos, tan
will mess up your life again).
Whereas
for Data Exploratory and Generalization (or Statistics I, easier, I also do not
know why do the management put such a long name instead of Statistics I or
Descriptive Statistics), we basically learn how to describe a data with proper
graphical display, together with the correct measure of central tendency,
dispersion and the shape. This is a really hard paper for me since it needs a
lot of critical thinking.
For Discrete
Mathematics, it is almost like the basic mathematics. We will be learning 2
parts only basically, that are Logic and Proof and also the Coding and Graph
Theory. For more about the parts, you can go to my another sub blog with URL
link www.discretecrowinx.blogspot.my.
This is like the application of Mathematics in Computer Science and is very
useful for logical thinking.
Malaysian
Nationhood Studies and Ethnic Relationship are two common subjects that all the
IPTA students must study. Both of them are almost the same in terms of the
syllabus. They talk about the formation of Malaysia and the process for
Malaysia to achieve independence. The differences are just Malaysian Nationhood
studies focus more on the history while the Ethnic Relationship focuses more on
the building of the ethnic relationship through the understanding of the
independence process of Malaysia.
Business
Accounting is basically the same as the pre-university Accounting, so there are
no worries for Accounting students in pre-university. However, for Science
students, you need to work harder since it was not easy to understand the basic
accounting concepts in one or two days, I admit. The lucky thing is you can
choose to not taking this subject if you are in Business Mathematics (it is
elective), I just take it because it is the precondition subject for the next
paper I plan to take in Semester 2, that is Financial Management.
Closing
These
are all basically the brief explanation on the subjects I took in this
semester.
I think
it is better for me to stop at here by now or else, you will be sleeping
afterwards. Thanks for reading and see you in the next post.
Enjoy
your day!
2017-11-02
5.05pm
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