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Friday, July 06, 2007

Argumentative Essay: The Best Learning Method

"There is an inch different between success and failure, what we need to jump from failure to success is just have a grain of will" This is the statement that I really believe in.

I was a teaching assistant a year ago and in the same time I also was AIESEC Local Committee President in one of government university in Indonesia for one year. One year-experience has taught utter perspectives of the learning process, when the different methods of learnings had hit me in the same time.

When I was selected as teaching assistant I had big pride, because that what I wanted when I just entered university. It's a dream of dream from every students in the university.

I was trying the best for creating something new in the team because I was the coordinator for 4 other teaching assistants. I was overwhelmed with the title that I was a teaching assistant and I just follow what my lectures & the senior assistants said because they are the persons who had chosen me. I follow their methods because I was too busy with the new position, fill the bulletin board with teaching assistant profile, too busy with technical things. Thus the preparation was over and finally I had my first class with the most important thing was overlooked and I still didn't know what was it.

At the same time as President in AIESEC I really glad had a nice team but we face many challenges and obstacles, pretty different with the teaching assistant condition where we were supported with proper infrastructure and guidance. Apparently University support the lab with more infrastructure rather than AIESEC as student organization under university. In AIESEC as executive board team, we did many derelictions in trial error process and we evaluated them in weekly meetings. In the reality, I hadn't had ponderous feeling about them and we took them as personal & team learning process. Together along with the time I realize that everybody in the team try to share our experiences to all members and took it to the fore.

The different methods were in me and I didn't notice in the first 6 months why I got stressed when I had a class to teach or had teaching assistant meeting, even though I was being paid by university. I tried to reflect what I were doing and still didn't find the answer. It was really an intricate feeling.

By the time I realized that the method I followed in form of curriculum from lecturers and senior teaching assistant, had replaced all my ideas and creativity to learn from teaching process. It has changed the perspective of learning from willingness to be an obligation. Suddenly I got shocked because unconsciously I transferred all that negative perspective to university students that I responsible with, but it's an irrevocable moment. It's totally mundane but unforgivable because I handled more than 400 students under my coordination. I can't believe I did that huge dereliction.

I really thankful that I'm an AIESEC member that's why I write this essay as my dedication and try to reach that inch for being successful person by being responsible with the learning experience that I had.

This is the beginning for better education when every obligation become a will and not the vice versa.

Enjoy,


Aidy

Sunday, July 01, 2007

HI AIESEC!

Nice to know when I woke up this morning that today is 1st July 2007, when everything should be started. The morning has already became night and started to prepare for 2nd July 2007. Time was came and by so fast without we realize it and 365 days from now, we will in the finish line and we will see back many things left behind as legacies. It will be the beginning and it will be the end, it really depend on us see it. I believe beginning nor ending won't pass without meaning, it remains in our heart positively and negatively, once again it really depend on us see it.

From the day I moved to MC flat, I stick one quote in toilet door and you will see it every time you are in the toilet (just come here to MC flat if you are not believe it), the door said "Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems".
We will face many challenges in front of us, one thing that we should realize we must enjoy it, mean it then it will become something very valuable in life. Once again thank you for all 0607 to leave all legacy and congratulation 0708 to just start the new term!

Enjoy,


Aidy