This year is almost over. I couldn’t imagine that I have lived for 2011 since January!
January started with a lot of thought about “How to pass last semester in July 2011? How to even finish the Final Research Project and Plant Design Project at the same time? How to manage my time during the super-tight-schedule? What will I do if I graduate this year? What will I wear at my graduation day? How to look skinny at such special day?”
The latter question really occured to my mind and I did nothing about it. :p
Thanks a lot to Dear Father in heaven, I successfully passed my last semester and graduated in July 2011. Wow! I received the “Bachelor of Science” kind-a-thing after my last name! It was a very happy-grateful-relieved-happy tears moment! I could not forget the day the chairman spoke that I am graduated!
January until June was filled with a lot of research (in the lab), staying all night to collect data, studying IELTS, doing the plant design project with a lot of anxious, stressed, and why-only-us moment. :p Not to forget, the 12-nonstop-days-studying for my comprehensive exam. I would not ever want to try again. Never! *please* But it turned out that the efforts was worth!
I also decided that I want to continue my study to master degree. I cancelled all the opportunity to be employed by some companies and searched the suitable universities abroad (and lovable places to wandered around, hehe) for my master study. The full-time-searching began after my graduation day, when I have nothing to do. :p I started to write some motivation statement and looked for recommendation letter, and stuffs needed for applying the university. I also looked for a financial supports so that my parent won’t have to pay at all.
During the applying and result waiting, I worked for my department in ITB. It was really a handful of work so I did not waste my time at all. Thanks to my professor because he asked me to help him and her.
It made me aware about places where I should go buy things such as screw, glass, police line, etc. :p Not to forget about learning a little bit of the refinery process and corrosion. Last but not least, I also learned something more about microsoft word and excel! :p especially about inserting an object and filtering data.
It was not a waste of time at all.
It was such a great moment to learn something more from my current condition back then.
It is already the end of 2011. I am thankful (super thankful, I must say) that I am surrounded with a lot of nice, supportive, and amazing people. My parents, my professor, my boyfriend, and my friend. They supported my decision at first and supported me ’til the the day I made my decision right around this time.
God is good. Always good. He put me in such condition to realize how good He is to me.
He made me able to do things that I ever thought of, especially about the study. I can not imagine my appearance back then.
haha. He made me able to pay the registration fee with exact amount (you know it is hard to transfer money internationally via bank in exact amount because you have to add the additional fee). He mentioned every idea for me to write that super-long-essay for my motivation statement. I have never done that before, to be honest. :p He protects me from any harm during my travel to Bandung and Jakarta, back and forth. And the list is still going on and on.. I can’t even mentioned it one by one.
It nearly the end of 2011. I am super excited about 2012 to come. What will He do? What will He make me? How will He mould and process me?
Are you excited too?
See you soon!