change of point of view

hi all, haven't blog for a while. Hehe school is surely tough and one thing that I like is that I try to change my attitude toward school. Well, for a long time I always thought that school is all about praising God and get A in the class. It's all that I know about school since I entered college but trust me, the more effort I tried to get A, the more I far away from God. That's what I felt most of the times. I have this kind of thinking, if people go to medical school, they don't need to worry about their grades. Since they'll graduate and applying their knowledges in their work place. I mean not totally slacking ok but at least you don't need to worry about grades, going to school and then listening to the professor + finally doing your best in all exams. Well I always have this kind of thinking toward other major except MY MAJOR. I always thought Mechanical Engineering is all about getting A in all exam and do perfectly in all homework + project.

This week I change the way I'm thinking, I try to apply the other major concept to what I'm doing in the school. Well I'll apply it fully on next week actually, not this week. But to be honest, when I change my perspective about school and right now the only thing I care is all about going to class, understanding the materials and do the best in exams. I don't care anymore about the grades or obtaining full score in homework. Without I realizing it, this week is actually the first week where I enjoy my college's life. It's not all about grades anymore but it's a matter about understanding the materials. That's why I start to dislike when people talk and all they care is grades. Most talking that I do is all about what you got on exam and then some other guy explaining they don't study well and bla bla bla. I rarely find any engineering student actually talk about exam's problem and how it suppose to be solved. Well, if the only thing you care is grades and you don't enjoy what you study ?Then why do you study it ? It's a very simple mind. One thing that I dislike is that if people complaining that they study too much or the material is too hard, bla bla bla. It's like you don't enjoy what you're doing, if you're enjoying it then do it and most people that I know will do it gladly. Man, but that's life that we're going through. One thing that I believe is that God will take care of us. We don't need to take care of ourselves because our father in Heaven already provide us with everything. So no need to pusing2 lah about grades :P.

New partnership

Good news, IUPUI just made a partnership with Indygo Bus service. Basically, right now all of IUPUI student can use Indygo bus service for free to any destinations and anytime. We just need to pick up a student pass in Student ID office. Well, this is certainly a good news for me since right now I can just use the bus to go to school, it saves my car gasoline and mileages. Thanks God for that :D.

Math class

Okay, I never thought math class can become so difficult. This semester is the first time I take a math graduate course to fulfill the requirement of my BSMS (Bachelor & Master) ME program. The math class is called engineering mathematics. This class grades was all basically taken from 8 sets of homework and that's all. 1 Homework is suppose to due today and to be honest I can only do 2 out of 20 questions. My schedule for this week is very full, consist of a lot of guest coming: Andri, Martino and Ps Samuel. Well, I really enjoy my weekend taking them to go somewhere or just accompanying them eating in Restaurant. So today I try to do my best and I still can't finish it, just one little prayer so God can do something and I really mean it, anything to save me. The answer is that the professor postponed the due date of homework 1 until next week :D. Thanks God, now is the time for me to work hard and finish the homework :D.

irritating

2 weeks ago I bought 3 books from half.com. The thing is 2 books already arrived since last week but there is one book for ME 330 class that hasn't come yet. To be honest it really irritates me and makes me wanna shout at the seller :P. Anyway, I need to stay clam :P. It's like a test of patience but I really need the book now !!!!

grading job

Okay, today I meet with Dr Miller. One of the math professor in IUPUI whom I'm working with this semester. He's a really nice guy and we go through the course syllabus and he explains how soon he needs the assignment and he also understand that sometimes I can't return the assignment in 2 days. So end of talk, then we make a deal. He's a really nice professor, btw the class that I'm grading was M-119 which was calculus for business people. Then I have 2 other professor, the first one is Dr Bart Ng and the second one was Dr Zhen. Dr Ng never reply my e-mail and I don't know why, I always try to meet him on his office but he was never there when I'm coming in, it's just like when I take a class with him. He's a very busy person and only spend probably 1 hour in his office and then teaching. Dr Zhen, he's a very unique person, I send him e-mail once. Then he never reply it, until yesterday he send e-mail back to me and he only said that he already put something on my drop box and expect it to be back tomorrow. Okay, this is serious, he never talk with me and expect me to finish his grading assignment in 2 days. What a professor ? Well, I think I just need to do my job Hehe. But to be honest he makes me work hard this semester especially since his class was a differential equation class. It's not an easy class to grade + I have to consider giving partial credit to the students since I've become a student in that class before and I know the feeling of hoping to get a partial credit.

patience

old people said that God loves patience people. Hum, I never thought of that until today. So here's the story, yesterday I lost my binder which contains syllabus, class notes, GPA for classes that I have taken, study progress and many important stuff :D. So yesterday basically I was like crazy people, keep thinking where did I left it, so I break down into: Starbucks, SL 70Computer Lab and SL110 which was the classroom where the last time I saw my binder. Then I think that if I left it in SL110 then it means that the professor will take it and keep it because it was his habit.

Yesterday night I prayed to God saying to Him with 100% belief that today He'll help me to find my binder and I'll find it. So in the morning, I went to starbucks and talked with starbucks' employee. After I explain my condition, he try to look it and can't find it anywhere but he promised me that he'll ask the manager that was on duty yesterday. The next stop is SL 70 computer lab. The proctor of that computer lab isn't friendly and he just tell me to go to LD 124 which was lost and found place for stuff that was lost in SL 70. After I go to the LD 124, the secretary tell me that there's no binder that was lost in LD 70 yesterday. Wah, this time big doubt start to arise in my head. But I try to keep going and believe.

After I'm done asking people, I went to the class and after that I spent some time to go to wall mart since I need to buy grip for my badminton rackets. After I buy the grip I'm planning to eat in egg roll no 1 since the wall mart was next to the restaurant but the restaurant was closed. It makes me a little bit angry. The problems haven't stop yet, after I'm back in campus I try to find parking space and I want a parking space in SL & LD parking lot since it was the nearest one with my classroom. At first I realize that the parking space was full, I asked God for a parking space, then after I can't find it when I go up to the highest floor, I try to find it when I go down. There's only one car in front of me when I go down and all of sudden there's one guy walk and the car in front of me make a full stop to find out where is this guy parking. Believe it or not, this guy park on the right side in front of the car in front of me. It pissed me a little bit since now I start to think, what if I go first and the car in front of me late. Then this parking space will belong to me. Then I can't find any parking space in this building and I try to turn around and go up again. When I was on the top floor again, one car suddenly broke the stop sign and now I'm behind this one car again. When we go down, the same thing happen again. One guy suddenly walk in front of us and he get out from his car. After that the car in front of me take the parking space. One time is okay but 2nd time really irritates me. Still trying to be patient and get out from this parking lot. I went to ET parking space and really thanks God I can find parking space right after I went to the parking lot :D.

Then back to my binder, I go to the ME department and talk with my professor, he said that he didn't find any binder. It really makes me sad since now I need to print of all of the syllabus and class power point + borrow someone notes again (this happen at approximately in the noon). Then after I take 1 class, it was 2:45 PM, I went home since my next class is at 7:30 PM. Right after I back to my apt, someone called me and ask whether I can help her to pick up her car that she just bought 5 days ago. I said yes and she looks really satisfied and happy with her new car :D. After that I played badminton for a while and then I went to my last class.

Believe it or not, 15 minutes after I'm sitting in the classroom, I notices that there is a binder on the lecturer's table. Then I ask my classmates to pick it up for me. Believe it or not again, it is my binders. Thanks God so much.

Now I understand a little bit about patience. If I was more patience probably I won't spend extra money on printing syllabus (now we have to pay 4 cents/page if we want to print in IUPUI). Well but above all I still want to thanks God.

got new job

Finally, after 1 semester of just doing school and research I get on campus job :D. Well I enjoy last semester research although I can't really finish it till the end but I learned something from it. This semester I'll work as a grader for math department :D. The good thing is that I'll grade for Dr Ng whom I have known before since I'm taking multivariable calculus class with him a year ago :D. To be honest I prefer to work with Asian professor than American professor, I mean if I can choose since it's easier to communicate with them especially if I have some problem in my work cause by family issue, the professor from Asian will understand that easier. Well I apply for another job in ME department as a grader and tutor for dynamics class. I really hope that I can get this job too since I really like the dynamic topic. Well, right now I don't want to think about that first since I'll have a quiz tommorow (quite fast :D) and I just want to surrender everything to God.

First day of school

Hi all,

I just decide to move out my blog to a new place so here is my first post :D. Today was my first day of school. It's very exciting since I can meet a lot of faces that I didn't see during the summer. The most interesting part is of course when I entered my ME class, the effect of not taking any ME class for 3 months really affect a lot on me. I feel really shaky especially since I'm entering my junior-senior year in IUPUI (yup only 2 more years and I'm done in IUPUI) and the class is more challenging. The most interesting part is when I get 1 unexpected professor, I don't know why the ME department do a last minute changing for my design class' professor. The one who supposed to teach was Dr El-Mounyari who was my advisor too :D, but they change to Dr Wang. To be honest he's a really nice and funny guy but it was so hard to catch up with his accent. Oh well I think I just need to make some new adjustment then. New semester means new challenge and one thing that I can't wait is to see how God is going to work in CaPLoG.InC and my life :D. I planned to do something different this semester for each meeting and make it more interesting and mature (since we got patricia and probably some new people).

Today, pastor called me and asked me to accompanying him and his friend who just came from Indiana last week since they'll visit Indianapolis tomorrow ( I guess they need alive GPS who don't just know about direction but place to visit and eat :P).