My UniLife

Huhu, it's the most inspiring session in the whole orientation. The organizer invited one of the alumni to deliver a speech on the secret how he get excellent grades in university. He is an engineering student with a First-Class Honour Degree as well as a Validator! Wow! What an amazing person, as he said, a validator is someone who was chosen to be the best students among the batches, and there would be only one in every graduation. To be qualified as a Validator, one must possess excellent grades and remain active in co-curricular activities. 

Apart from that, he have won a lot of Dean's Award from UCSI University over the past few years.

What I like most is the sentence he said below,

It's 9.00am when the programme shift towards the Student Council Briefing Session. So, what exactly is Student Council? You may have heard this the first time. Let me explain to you, Student Council is basically an organisation that represents students in an University or Schools. You may lodge any complaints to them or seek for their aid of your problems during your university life. 

Doesn't this sound great to you? And below is a snippet taken from UCSI Unversity Student Council's official page:

Again, all the freshie have to go through the Ice Breaking Session! Yet, everything went different in the second day of orientation, I am not feeling so shy anymore, instead, I began to talk to others with own initiative. I found out that, most students are willing to get known with you too! 

Remember what I have mentioned above? I was given a white ribbon, and now, it determine which group I am in. The White Group! 

The interesting activities start right now. But first, we have to introduce ourselves to our group members. To my surprise, a lot of the members are actually came from Indonesian. And one of the Indonesian members told me that, he came Malaysia with nine friends by plane. Then, we named our group as the "Snow White" which was a lovely name. Yet, it is certainly not a name that can bring motivation XD . 

Senior-Junior Session

I have no idea why the Academic Excellence session is skipped through or maybe I am unaware of the activities. This is because in this Senior-Junior session, the freshies are able to communicate with the Facilitators and asked them about the courses that we would go through in the future. Apart from that, this is also a great time to meet with your seniors where you would know a lot of useful information in the future!

Lunch + Student Organisation Booth

Then, we went to the Multi Purpose Hall (MPH) located at Block A for our lunch. After finishing my lunch, I went back to the Dewan Tan Sri Ahmad Razali and visit several Student Organization Booth. One of the booth caught my attention, it was the ASSA (Actuarial Science Student Association) Club. As I mentioned before, I am going to be an actuarial science student in UCSI next year, thus, this club is just right for me. Look, this is the club and the preview above is from their facebook page. I had the opportunity to talk with the club's President, Siaw Hui. She introduced to me some activities carried out by the clubs, including Professional Career Talk and outings which could benefit those Actuarial Science students in the future.

Again, we are being introduced to the function of IIS and LMS. However, this time, the speaker told us the way to enroll ourselves into the classes. Through that, we could download all the lecture notes and do quizzes just using the LMS. It was a short but informative briefing session. 

Group Activity

This is the climax of the whole orientation day! The attendees are grouped once again according to our ribbon color. This time, we have to play station games and earn points for my "Snow White " team. The playing area is around the whole campus while we need to travel forth and back to collect points. My group got 440 points after fighting for 1 hour, yet, we are not the winner haha. Instead, the winner is "The Minion" as they got 510 points in the games. Wow! Congratulation to them!

Closing

It's 3.30pm right now and the 2-Day Orientation has come to an end. The Vice-Chancellor cum President, Senior Professor Dato' Dr. Khalid Yusoff, was invited to deliver a speech to all of the freshie. His words are encouraging where he told us that studying in University is totally different from high school. We need our own effort to complete everything, to gain everything and to succeed in everything. The whole speech ends with thunderous loud applause. 

The orientation days in UCSI is quite interesting to me where I am able to familiar with the school compound and rules & regulation. When I share this experience with my other friends, they told me that my orientation experience is much more hilarious than their's! What they did was sitting all day long in their campus' hall. 

I think, the group activities and ice-breaking session makes UCSI orientation days differ from other universities. There's a lot of fun during the 2-day activity.

First of all, let's start with the itinerary of the First Day orientation:

1. Orientation Kit
2. Student Handbook PDF
3. Policy Handbook PDF

Then, the programmes begin. We start with the Imaugration Ceremony with two hosts, who both of them are UCSI senior students. Then, singing our National Anthem, Negaraku. During the session, I manage to meet a guy, who is going to do the exactly same Foundation programme with me. We get know each other soon. Well, unilife right, just mix around with people! Maybe you can know someone who might change your life (?)

Then, everthing went classical with the performance of UCSI School of Music students as the opening performance.

That's right, I am going to a be UCSI students soon and guess what, tomorrow would be my orientation day for my foundation year. Let's take a look with the activities tommorrow:

The registration would start at 8.00am at Dewan Tan Sri Ahamd Razali. After that, all the students would be packed with lots of activities! I am looking forward with what's going on tomorrow. By the way, I am taking the Foundation in Arts of Actuarial Science and Architecture pathway which means, the course would mainly focus in Mathematics subjects and business-related modules.

I am going to live a new life in UCSI for my coming 4 years! Hope I can adapt to the unilife soon~ After foundation, I would continue my studies in actuarial science.

I heard a lot positive review of UCSI in the actuarial science courses as they could nurture a bunch of students who passed merely all the SoA examination papers before their graduation. This is not an easy task to the majority, so this is the main reason I choose to pursue my studies in this university. (Of course, one should be hardworking to get excellent result).

Okay, the clock struck 12 now. And I should end the first post at here, would update the orientation information tomorrow at here.


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