In this post I’m gonna explain the first step of FEP called General Orientation or in short: GO!
No wait I didn’t ask you to go, I was talking about GO! Now most of you probably know what GO is because my readers are probably going to be Binusians or Alumnus but there might be a slight chance that you don’t actually know what is this GO or you probably hit your head too hard and got amnesia or something. So, GO is some sort of activity that teaches new students (like moi) about the things that we are about to face in campus life. It’s basically like any other orientation hence that “General” from GO. This part of FEP lasts for 5 – 6 days, why 5 – 6 days? Because I don’t remember if it’s 5 or 6 days.
Well now you know how bad I am at being a professional guy. Now let me explain my days through this, General Orientation.
Day 1. First day of entering my campus. YAY. The suspense is real. I’m scared ;-;.
Like any other orientation the first day is usually used for briefing. And we were accompanied by a group of seniors who willingly take the job to teach new kids and they call themselves the Buddy Coordinator. They taught us about rules and your dos and don’ts. For example we have to have our cards with us all time when entering campus(which is probably a very cool feature that this campus have) and some other stuff like teaching us to sing some sort like a ceremony song of Binus. Day 1 is really fun because i got to meet some new friends, although there’s something off about my class(Which is DBN11).Hmmm what is it? Oh yeah, WE HAVE NO GIRLS IN OUR CLASS!. Well we technically have A girl in our class who is one of the BC of our class, and I’m actually quite fine with having no girls since I also have Gynophobia :D.
Day 2. Still no Girls.
Day 2 was used to explain what to be expected when entering an academy. Our lovely BCs talked about exams and registration and some other stuff that we need to do. We were forc- I, I MEAN LEAD to the auditorium which is one of the coolest auditorium I have seen in my life….because it was my first(it kinda looks like a cinema tho). Binus Way as the topic for the day and one of the most important person in BINUS was the one who speaks. Which I have forgotten the name….Just kidding. It was a rector who speaks and his name is Mr. Andreas Chang. He told us about the mission and the vision that Binusian must have. And that’s pretty much it for day 2 :l
Day 3. Binus Journey & Binus Maya
The title speaks for itself except for Binus Maya hence my title has no s. Binus Journey was once again spoken by our lovely BCs. They taught us about what is going to happen in this 4 years of academic years. While the other topic explains about “Binus Maya”. ‘Hey James, What is this Binus Maya thingamajic that you said?’. Well let me explain that to you. Binus Maya is one CRUCIAL thing to be practiced if you wanna be in Binus. Sounds painful I know but this feature is also one of the coolest feature I have ever seen in campuses around Indonesia. All the stuff you need for your campus life(mostly) are here. Schedules, Homeworks, Studying Material, etc They have it here. It’s not like school is where you have to write down the schedules. Just simply open this site on your phone and you are good to go. Although there are some errors from the site that I am unhappy with >:l
Day 4. And still no girls.
This days topic were Academic Success (Sukses Kuliah), “Bunga Rampai”(Yes they simply call it that but I don’t really understand why), And lastly “kerohanian” (I don’t know the English for it :l). “Sukses Kuliah” was once again taught by our lovely BCs. Where we were taught to be strong willed in order to be Successful. Next we were dragged into the auditorium to participate(mostly just watching) the “Bunga Rampai”. And from that day to this hour I still do not understand why they call it “Bunga Rampai” (lit. potpourri). I guess it means diversity???? I don’t even know. And I enjoyed looking at all the clubs using their seer might to make us interested to joining our club. Especially the martial arts section, although I didn’t join them in the end due to physical issues. There are also funny ones like Nippon Clubs performance which I have my eye on before even knowing it exist thinking “There must be a club where I can learn japanese language and have friends who play japanese games.”. After all the clubs(They call it UKM here) finished performing. We continue to go to the “kerohanian” part. I part ways with my friends since we mostly have different religions. And went to a room specifically used for Christian community. Religion are quite important in the Binus’ eyes and I respected that. And how well they treat our diversity well and equally makes me more “respectful” towards Binus.
Day 5. I’m so tired…
This is probably the day I was waiting for since that potpourri event and in this day we could choose our own club to join. There are many clubs to join but I ended up registering to BGDC, BNCC, Band, and the club I meant to join Nippon Club. It was quite a fun day although really tiring and what’s even tiring is we have and event called “Kebersamaan” (lit. togetherness). In this “event” we show off our “Yel-yel” (lit. shout things that represent us) and since we are all boys we ended up calling us the Spartans and have the most manliest “yel-yel” in that room(in my opinion). And then everything ended and I went back to Medan cause we have holiday for a week WOOOO!
Well that’s about it for this post!
Thanks for reading it ^^