Assalamualaikum, ppl. Sorry for not posting anything a few weeks back. It's all because of invaders in my laptop. I'll tell in detail what happened in another post okay? And I will try to post on Thursday only from now on. So, this entry I've invited my schoolmate in form 4 and 5 to share her very own experience as a hayat student in PASUM. Her name is Nurhamizah Hamdan. p/s : she sells authentic US makeup which you can find them @makeupbymizah in instagram.
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Becoming a PASUMian
Hai and assalamualaikum. First off, I
would like to thank Ainie Mardia for inviting me to write about my experience
as PASUM student.
If you’re a pasumian who’re reading this,
congrats! Because you just become part of the oldest and hardest science
foundation in Malaysia. Hahahaha, just kidding. However, I’m serious though. To
those who don’t know what’s pasum means, it stands for Pusat Asasi Sains Universiti
Malaya.
Okay, pasum ade dua aliran utama, iaitu
Sains Hayat and Sains Fizikal. I’m a hayat student so I’ll be explaining my
experience as one(if you’re fizikal, you can stop reading this, hahaha). Ohhh,
lupa pulak, masa batch saya ade student APIDS(Asasi Pengajian Islam dan Sains)
yang habiskan semester 2 diorang dengan budak pasum lain. Kenapa? You might
want to ask that to different person. Hehehehe.
Untuk student hayat, sebab ramai sangat,
nanti korang dibahagikan kepada Hayat 1 & Hayat 2. Saya hayat 1,so, masa semester 1, ade 8 subjek utama which are
Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2, Biology 1, Biology 2, Chemistry 1, Chemistry 2,
Physics 1 and Physics 2. And tak lupa jugak English for MUET, ni penting jugak
especially yang nak buat medic tu, muet kena at least Band 4 tau ye adik2.
Bukan nak pandang rendah tapi medic UM very competitive, so kalau student yang
4flat yang apply medic selalunya tak dapat sebab muet band 3. And then ade self
development course, memang course ni paling ramai fly/ponteng/malas. Hahahahaha
tapi not me okay. Review balik untuk sem 1, ade 8 subjek, muet and self
development. Ohh and semua subjek yang saya list ni maybe jugak korang dapat
masa semester 2, depends on system pasum batch korang.
Masa semester 2, 8 subjek jugak tapi jadi
Mathematics 3, Mathematics 4, Biology 3, Biology 4, Chemistry 3, Chemistry 4,
Physics 3, Physics 4. And by the time sekarang, korang patut dah ambik muet
tapi English class still ade and wajib hadir yee. And then ade information
technology course, course ni ala-ala macam subjek ICT masa kat sekolah
dulu-dulu. Subjek ni paling best sebab boleh online kalau kerja dah siap.
Hahahaha, ikut cikgu jugaklaaaa, nasib cikgu saya baik. Review balik sem 2, ade
8 subjek, English and ICT.
Now the boring parts. Dekat pasum ade
lectures, tutorials and experiments/lab. Budak hayat ade 3 lab(lab chemistry,
lab physics & lab biology) while budak fizikal ade 2 lab je(sbb taka de
biology). Tadi saya ade kata ade hayat 1 and hayat 2 kan? Hayat 1 ade jadual
lecture yang sama while budak hayat 2 ade jadual lecture diorang yang lain.
Biasanya, lebih kurang 200 student dalam
lecture. Lectures adelah sangat membosankan tapi try untuk dengar sebab masa
nilah lecturer tu bagi tau apa yang keluar exam semua. Kalau tutorial pulak, ade
lebih kurang 20 orang dalam satu kelas. Basically nilah classmate korang yang
mesti dari hayat yang sama. Meaning, saya kan hayat 1, so classmate saya semua
jugak hayat 1. Faham tak? Tutorials ni macam tuisyen, and ni paling best sebab
tak faham je boleh terus tanya, kalau masa lecture ramai sangat, ramai malu nak
tanya. And sometimes adelah jugak assignment yang carry around 20 marks. Banyak
kan? Buat betul2, macam markah bonus tu.
Okay, labs/experiments pulak, lab reports
kena hand in on the day of the experiment date. Maksudnya, korang kena buat lab
report awal2 and then masa buat experiment, jot down results and conclusion.
Finally, hantar dekat lab demonstrator masing-masing. Ni jugak salah satu
ciri-ciri yang buat pasum ni agak challenging sebab asasi/matriks lain setahu
saya memang tak wajibkan hantar on the day of the experiment
Kadang-kadang lain-lain batch mungkin lain
sikit system tapi mostly sama je. Maksud saya lain tu, masa batch 2013/2014,
lab chemistry tak payah hand in on the day of the experiment. Batch 2015/2016
kena pulak. Saya laa tu yang kena tu. Huhuhuhu
Becoming a KUAZian though was one of the
most memorable moment in my life. No joke. The JTK worked their ass off to
organize the activities, in a literal sense. They plan everything from A to Z,
with the help of the fellow of course. What I’m saying, because they do all
these stuff, they might get some privilege but I do think it’s justifiable you
know? I’m not one of the JTK but one of my roommate was. She always at
somewhere trying to sort everything out and she came back to our room, in
average, around 12pm. No joke man and this happens almost everyday, worse when the
event was like 2 days away, she might not even sleep at our room because it’s
so late. That being sad, you can always hear people talk about how the JTK
somehow bias in certain ways. For example, they had their own private space
during exam week that only they can use, equipped with air-cond and a fridge.
However, for all the things they’ve put up with, I say they deserve that room.
The events organized were fantastic. As a
music lover myself, my favourite is the one organized by the KREATIF. The Art
Festival. The activity that I joined was the “KUAZ GOT TALENT”, and I sang.
Yeah, I have somewhat non-cringy worth singing. And my team won 1st
place for our block because we up against the other 3 blocks. So yeay me. It’s
awesome.
Just join whatever events that they
organized as many as possible and collect those merit marks so you can reassure
of your application to degree nanti. 4flat je tak cukup dik. People wants to
see that soft skill, the leadership and teamwork, so show it.
That’s all from me, assalamualaikum.
