advices regarding matriculation and college life

Hello guys, I'm back.

Well, I've quit matrikulasi just right after the orientation week over there. Most of the people ask why? Just to give you guys an insight of KMP ( different with other campus ) KMP is a great place to study. Their lecturers are almost originally the UUM lecturers, I would recommend those who wish to apply Perakauan for Matrikulasi to choose KMP as it is really well known for Perakaunan.

Secondly, KMP brings you a different experience than your secondary school life. I'm a Chinese from Chinese school, and so you could have imagine how many Chinese I've been with for the past 17 years. If you go to matrik, you won't be able to find that much Chinese. For the KMP first intake, we only got 60++ non-bumis out of 1500 students. Not sure for the second intake, maybe it'll increase til 80++ just like how last batch did.

My advice is : Don't try to stick with Chinese only when you get into matrik. It's a new environment, new life, so just adapt and get used to it. From my only week experience, what I can see is Chinese tends to stick with Chinese, they seldom interact with Malay, they don't sit together and Chinese tends to be more picky or choosy than Malays. If you are a Chinese, just admit it, I'm sure you've said something like this " I hate the lecturer, he doesn't know how to teach and blah blah blah. " But Malays, never speak of anything like this. So Matrikulasi give you a chance to learn from Malays about the good thing, learn from each other.

Thirdly, homesick problem. Homesick is a common thing that happened in usual students. Cannot say all, because there is always an exception. In this case, just try to join the activities they organize. Involving and enjoy it without thinking of how people will think of you if you are acting so crazy. That's the thing I learn from Matrikulasi. Some friends I had there, they are reluctant to join, don't want to sing together, dance together, while watching other people having fun, the only thing they can do is sigh and keep on saying wanted to go back home. It's usual, true, I've been crying over and over because of homesick. My room mates know about it, seniors know about it and my friends all know about it. It's not a shame to admit, everyone will miss home, HOME SWEET HOME! At first, I thought that Perlis is way too far from Kuala Pilah, I won't be able to go home so frequently and that's the reason I cry. But after I came to Nilai UC, same thing happened. Every Sunday my parents just drop me at the hostel and leave, I'll feel like crying but it takes some time, join my friend and chit chat just make me feel better. Getting into a packed timetable, have no time to think of other things just make my life easier and feel fully occupied.

Lastly, to whoever went to college, or going to college, please drop your secondary school life behind (advice from Mr. Lam) College life is new, is different. Some says college life is about freedom, go class whenever you want, play whenever you want, eat whenever and wherever you want. True enough, if you are only looking for freedom in your college life. In my opinion, my college life is not only about a thirst for knowledge, but also to socialize, join different groups and activities and learn more things so that I'm advanced or ahead of the others. Society nowadays are really competitive, we all know, so accept it and do whatever you can to help yourself.

Difference between f6 and college : Form 6 is a one shot exam, frankly speaking, it takes a lot of effort to excel and courage to take the risk. One shot exam means you bet the 2 years effort, gambling, and if you're doing well, get flying colors. But if you're unlucky, so sorry to say you've wasted 2 years time. Form 6 is more on study, less assignments, wherelse college emphasize on assignments more than study. Lecturer talk fast, so be prepared, prepare your notes, lecturer tells you what book to buy, but never tell who which page to refer, so make use of the index and your book to get further reference and make use of Internet to get additional information.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading it finish, I know it's a long long long advices and opinion and keep on repeating =p

P.S. I'm gonna post another post regarding the reasons I quit matrik and my life at Nilai UC.