Assignment: PMDO

Here’s an intermezzo—my so called paper for my Pengelolaan Manusia Dalam Organisasi (Human Resource Management) class. We were told to write about knowledge management on PLN or Perusahaan Listrik Negara, a state-owned electricity company and upload the finished work on our social media. 

So, here you go my lovely lecturers, my paper about knowledge management., special English edition! This one is the lighter version of my paper. Please forgive the non-formalities I use here.

nb. Note sure if my lecturer really gonna read this. Haha!

The Awesomeness of Being an Sixth Semester Undergraduate Student

Might wonder why I disappear from the blogworld? It’s because I’m not really good at managing my time. Some people would easily spare their time for blogging. But I find it hard to share anything while my mind works busily around my academic live.

It’s the fifth week of my sixth semester. It has been awesome. I take some Industry-Organizational Psych class which subjects are very interesting. In every meeting, we discuss about organizational behavior, career, competence at work and people in organization. I also take Counseling class, where I learn the basic of being a counselor (although I don’t consider being a counselor in the future). 

The most important class I take is the Research Methodology class. Here, I prepare myself to write the so-called thesis. Dear Lord, my scholarly life is at stake in this class. Because the final project for this subject is a thesis proposal. I really hope I could finish a fix thesis proposal at the end of this semester and started doing my thesis next semester. Wish me luck!

Because I want to be really serious on doing my Research Methodology assignments, a lot of my time wasted   being used for journal hunting and literature searching. I still surf the web every day—I even spend more online time than usual for this purpose. (Even though I spend 1/8 of the browsing time scrolling down the 9gag hot page).  Two times a week, every Research Methodology class member has to upload their research progress at our campus web called the Psyche. This is why I'm getting very busy; because I have to do loads of research.

Psyche is awesome. I think your college or university must be having this kind of site too. Some of my friends assumed that our campus is the only institution which have this kind of interactive site. Well, they could be wrong. I believe that out there, sites like Psyche are plenty.

Tagged with “Psychology Classroom Hybrid Education”, Psyche offers a lot of useful feature like study material download, class online forum where you can discuss academic-related-talks in the site and project (assignment) submission. We even do our quiz online here in Psyche. It also provides academic information and announcements like scholarship or student exchange offers. Of course, it can only be accessed by Unair’s Psychology students. But here’s some sneak peak;

the Psyche dashboard

Recently my campus Information System Department developed Psyche into some kind of local social-network. We could send message to the lecturers or fellow students. We even can chat the like the Facebook-way chat. It also have a profile page, a dashboard and wall. 

the lesson page

Here's my Organizational Behavior lesson page. The lecturers of this subject likes to uploads a lot of learning supplement like articles, journals or text books.

The Psyche web is only faculty or so-called-local-level site. For the university or the bigger scoop level, there's UACC or Universitas Airlangga Cyber Campus. UACC controls every academic activity like your academic schedule, academic calendar, attendance record, grade book, study plan for particular semester (I don't know what it is called in English, but here we called it "Kartu Rencana Studi"), achievement record (like when you win something) and many more...

Oh, the other awesome thing about Psyche is the text notification service. As I said before, we submitted our assignment through the web. Every time the project deadline gets closer, Psyche will intensively text you about the approaching deadline. Not only texting about deadlines, every time a lecture (or anyone) posts in the forum, Psyche will generously tell you through text. Once, I received about 50 texts notification in a day from Psyche because a class forum gets so active. (un)Fortunately, this service cannot be disabled.

My college friends even joking about Psyche who sends message to someone a lot more than boyfriends (or girlfriends... or someone who have a crush on another) do.

What about your academic life? Is it as awesome as mine? Or do you have a similar campus site like I do?

Working Is...

As an Industry-Organization Psych student, I learn many things about human in organization—specifically in the work setting. I learn about forces that push you to do your best effort while working, skills required to do a job superbly, managing yourself and others, how to be a leader and a manager—and the differences between them, developing yourself and others around you, managing your career,  and many thing else.

It gives me a lot to think on. I never really work before—though I have done some freelance job—but in class, I learn about the ‘theories of doing things right while working’. All those theories and realities of work tell me that the working-life could be… harsh. I find out the most important thing for you to survive at work is your skill. What I learn in school this whole time can be easily set aside. Well yeah, knowledge is important but without knowing how to realize it, your knowledge means nothing. Values you hold and the right attitude are vital; it helps you to behave properly in various conditions.

*sigh* Could I really endure my future work life? Do I have proper skill, competencies and capabilities needed to do my work? Can I earn proper wages with my abilities I have now?

Have you ever wondered about those things too? After a long contemplation in classes I attended, working for me now, seems to be more than earn money for life. Working is more likely studying in some organization (or company) and you get paid for doing it. By setting this mindset (of get paid for studying) while doing your job, hopefully you wouldn’t be burdened with the tasks.

Happened to me once, when I did my job as a tester whose job is to administrate some psychological tests and score it. It was exhausting. That time, I had to handle a class of 20 naughty Senior High schoolers outside town—2 hours from Surabaya. The deadline for the test scoring was so short that I did it in a rush. Yeah, you guessed right, I wasn’t paid quite properly.

But then I think again. I learn a lot that time. I learn how to conduct myself and control my emotion in front of those badly behaved students. I learn to work under pressure. The paid means nothing compared with what I learned through working.

What about you guys? Have you anything to share about working?

  

Welcome March

Ah, finally March arrived. Do you know that March is one of my favorite month? 

New semester has begun and so far it seems like it's gonna be a lot of fun. Tiring, hectic, full of quizzes and assignments semester but fun. I will have a lot of organizational researches and visits to some companies. Meeting a lot of new people in the company sounds so challenging and thrilling to me! 

I hope I could stay living in the way of positive mind and seeing everything as an exciting challenge so I could fight hard for my goals this semester.

Wishing you all a good day!

Story of a Student with a Bad Luck

What occurred to your mind when you hear the word disappointed? For me, it is simply a mismatch between what I expect and the reality.

Maybe you ever noticed my ‘5th semester affirmation’, in the sidebar (though it is now deleted).  This is where the disappointment came from, because my 5^th semester GPA is far below my expectation. 

The disappointing report card

The thing is, I put a lot of effort for this semester’s assignment. I had travel to other city only to gather data for my research, hardly sleep enough; causing me some metabolite problem—made me gain almost 10 kg in 3 month... 

I did try confirming the grade to my lectures—for I think that the score I got wasn't fair at all, compared to my hard working. But seemingly they had wrapped the grade, left me disappointed. 

And my dear readers, I am sorry for complaining a lot.

I grieved for days because of this. I used to be quite bright. Getting low grade this semester kind of blew me. It ruined my plan. I couldn’t apply for scholarship—because it requires at least 3 on the GPA. I had to retake the failed subject, such a waste of time. It means I wouldn’t be able to graduate on schedule.

The worst is not that I disappointed myself, but also my parents. I’m ashamed. I know that they put a lot of hope on me, but what did I give to them? A low grade? Meh!

Then I brace myself to tell my dad about my grade.

But, he wasn’t angry. At all. Like my failure wasn’t a big thing. He told me that it was okay I didn’t get ‘income’ from this semester’s grants; I still could write short stories, get it published and received honorarium from that (oh yeah, I got my story published on a magazine last November) or earning some bucks from my freelance job as psycho-tester. He even mocked the lectures with me, LOL.

Here’s what he said about my grade

"Leave the bad grades behind and live more optimistically next semester."

Isn’t he the coolest dad ever?

My Mom too, is supporting enough. She knows how hard I work for last semester's assignment. For her, my low grade was just some bad luck. Well, true enough.

Yeah, grieving over the wrapped score won’t change anything. Keeping angry to my lecturers won’t do me any good. I will retake my failed classes, trying to get a better score and stop complaining about my disappointment.

Wishing you all a good—non-disappointing day!

Story of My So Called Personality

Fun Quizzes eh?

I used to be a fan of online for-fun-personality-quizzes. At that time I would be so exciting knowing that I'm a sanguine, an introvert, a peacemaker, some water-element girl, a joker, a bossy type etc, etc. Now that I have entered the real Psychological Testing world, my real character has been revealed by some personality tests I learned on my Psychodiagnostic classes. But I’m not all happy with my personality test result.

So far I have done three roleplay in my Personality Testing class: Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Edward Personality Preference Schedule (EPPS) and Wartegg Zeichen Test (commonly known as Wartegg or WZT). 

In TAT, you will be given a set of picture. All you need to do is tell your story about what you see in the picture. TAT actually is a test intended for those who have personality disorder, so the test interpretation wouldn’t be valid for me.

The second test, EPPS is a personality test which measures 15 needs that linked to your personality.  Answer 225 sets of questions and it will show you the quantifications of needs in your trait. While WZT is some kind of picture completions test. You don’t need to a specific drawing skill because it won’t measure your drawing ability but your personality profile.

Somehow, the test results shocking me. According to EPPS interpretation, I’m somewhat immature, indecisive, have a high need in succorance, have a very low need for nurturing, do not have need of endurance and quite aggressive.

Well, I know I’m not perfect, but seeing that I have so many flaws… is a different story :p BUT this is not a final judgement! Many people let themselves down because of their psychological test result. I have heard many cases when people gets really disappointed with their IQ because it was quite low. No! The psychological test result is a call for a huge change! I couldn’t stay immature and keep procrastinating eternally, or keep deserting others and being indecisive all my life. So yeah, I have to improve my self.

Hopefully I can be a better person. Yay!

I'm Back! Sort Of.

Hello Mid-October! Hiya there, how are you? 

My full with tasks agenda

I've been too busy doing so many assignments, papers, presentations and reports that I neglected this blog. It really seems that this is the most hectic semester I have ever experienced. As Arkarna says, "So little time so much to do."

The question is: do I really don't have time or I'm just simply not sparing any time at all?

I admit, sadly, that I didn't spare enough time. Either I was too caught up with the tasks or distracted by other things (like tumblr and the new TV series I  started to watch recently; Doctor Who) or just too tired and too lazy to do other things... I even neglected my reading lists. I only read some books which are required for academic purpose.

I really need to manage my time better than this.

I hope you all doing well! 

A Student's Life: Hectic!

Taken in 2.10 am, in the middle of idea digging process

Many things didn't work as it has been planned. I abandoned a lot of books on my reading list to work on the college projects. So far this is the most hectic start-of-a-new-semester week. Lots of papers, presentations, research, academic books to be read and quizzes. 

This semester, most of my lecturers seemingly developing a new habit of giving quiz in the beginning of the class. That way I have to prepare myself the night before so I can do the test well. How I miss my holiday :p

But this semester can be quite exciting. We'll have Psychological Test role-play and a visit to a mental hospital. Also, I'm waiting for some big scholarship announcement. Hopefully, this will make my hectic fifth semester more fun.

 

And I'm wishing anyone to have an exciting days too!

Until next time!

Story of the "Agapé"s

So, I have decided to totally change my habit this semester and read more academic books. This is the third day of the new semester. Some classes have begun and the lecturer has explained about what I'm going to learn this semester. Seemingly, my fifth semester would be tough. There a lot of paperworks, quizzes, observations and field tasks to be done.  I really have to do something huge to increase my cumulative GPA, to survive this semester.

As you can read in my previous post about BACAKILAT, I have made a reading list; 15 or more books to read in 30 days. Well, I've got to change the whole list, adjusting it according to my academic reading need. In my old list, I put some 'light' books like novels, popular motivational books and some religious books. Now, a huge pile of scholarly books are stuffed in the waiting list. 

The thing is, I don't have the books I needed. The only place where I can get them is in my lovely college library.

Some days ago I joked with the girls about the bunch of freshmen who loves to hang out in the library. We called them "Agapé" or "Anak Gaul Perpus" (freely translated as The Library Groovers). I can't believe that all of a sudden I became an Agapé too. Haha. And the library is extremely crowded. Usually it only takes 2 or 3 queue to register the borrowed books. But today, there are about 20 people queued to borrow their books. Whoa. The freshmen are being way too studious this semester I suppose :p

Okay then, welcome to my life, fifth semester. I'm going to beat you XD 

Affirmation: 5th Semester Report Card

I really hope this semester's report card can be looked like this. 

I'm telling you guys: I'LL BE WORKING REALLY HARD FOR THIS. 

And I'm getting straight As NOT BECAUSE I AM TOLD TO, but because I WANT TO. I hope someone would understand and give up on telling me how am I supposed to be. I know what to do :)

Send me your support so I can achieve this, will ya guys?