Thought Canvas

Event as awesome as OSKM 2012 deserves a full length post in my blog. Tahun ini Orientasi Study Keluarga Mahasiswa ini mengusung tema, "Integrasi untuk Indonesia." Bukan sembarang orientasi, sasaran utama ajang kaderisasi paling agung di ITB ini bukan hanya di tujukan untuk para maba-nya (freshmen year), tetapi juga panitia (sophomore year) dan para massa kampus ( juniors and seniors yang terdaftar jadi bagian unit atau himpunan). Seperti layaknya kaderisasi, ada nilai nilai yang ingin di transfer dan tanamkan kepada para peserta kaderisasi, dan tentu nilai nilai yang dapat di refleksikan akan berbeda sesuai dengan peran, dan posisi kita di acara OS ini. Sebagai Maba, OS ini bertujuan untuk membangun karakter angkatan 2012 yang solid. Ini merupakan poin penting yang tidak di abaikan para konseptor OSKM 2012, karena bagaimanapun hebatnya kualitas individu dari populasi sebesar 3400 orang, tidak mungkin akan bisa punya karakter angkatan yang baik jika tidak di bentuk lew...

Today, I had a very interesting experience of glancing back at the past. It was not a story about going back to the past using a time machine nor magical tales of peering back to the past using help of mythical supernatural creature. No. It was a simple of experience of giving an interview to 15 year old students trying their luck in a selection process of AFS-YES YP 16-17. Having the interview had caused me to have a lot of sentimental flashback to my past where I was on their position. I would have been 20 kgs lighter than I am now, a slightly more curious, a more driven, a more naive version of me who believe that going to The US would give me the answer to many of nagging questions that I have in life. In a fierce competition against hundreds of others applicants - I did wonder what makes myself special, at the time I was naive enough to believe I was one of the best - today, simply listening to the lives of these 15 y.o. I could assure myself - many of them had much better, mo...