YJ's University Life in UUM: 2016

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Ways to Save Our World

Save Our World

Our environment had been influenced by human’s daily activities. Therefore, all of us have to work together in order to save our world. There are several ways to save our world.

1. Produce renewable energy

Renewable energy should be produced in order to reuse the energy again. By using renewable energy, the pollution will be reducing. It is because the renewable energy is more eco-friendly and it brings less impact towards the environment.

2. Reduce amount of wastes

The amount of waste has to reduce in order to reduce the pollution. Those wastes may increase the number of rubbish and thus impact the environment and burden the workers.

3. Recycle

We may recycle those things in order to reduce amount of wastes. The examples of recyclable things are papers, cans, and bottles. Those things can be recycled and use to be making other products, like the glasses of windows.

4. Reuse

We have to reuse the things, such as glass and plastic bottles rather than throw it away. Those bottles can be used to keep snacks, like biscuits. It is useful even it looks simple.

5. Plant trees

We may plant trees around our house in order to get closer with green environment. It helps us to reduce the air pollution surrounding and thus save our world from pollution.

Benefits of Involve in an Event

Recently, I am involved in an event in university. It is the first event that I joined in university even I am not a first-year student. There are several benefits I get after I joined the events.

1. Responsibility

From the event, I learned to become more responsible towards my tasks. I am trying my best to work on those tasks in order to prevent myself become a burden towards my partner.

2. Time management

I am always poor in time management. However, my time management had been improved after I involved in this event. It is because all of my works will be delayed if I do not manage the time well during the period of preparation the event.

3. Communication skill

Communication skill is important in our daily life. From this event, I learned to communicate with others, not only with performers but also my teammate. I learned to talk patiently when my teammate and I have different opinions on the same matters.

4. Tolerance

I learned to be more tolerance from this event. It is because I am not the only persons in the team. Therefore, I have to cooperate with my teammate in order to carry out the event smoothly. However, I do not know those members before. I do not know who they are and how they behave. Thus, we tolerance each other and we work together as well.

5. Get know more friends

All of my friends are my course mates before I joined the event. However, I spend most of my time in my room or in my home. After I joined this event, most of my time is spent to create sweet memories with my team members besides study. Now, they are my friends, but also like siblings who care about each other.

In conclusion, I would like to advise those undergraduates who are not dare to join events for various reasons to give them a chance to improve themselves. Seriously, they may learn something new after those tiring days.

Group Photo after Practice

Group Photo after Event

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The Ways to Promote Environmental Awareness

Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental steward and participate in creating a brighter future for our children.

1. Informational and inspirational seminars

The environmental awareness can be raise by the seminars. The students may get more information and inspiration about environmental awareness through the seminar. Hence, they will gain more knowledge about environment from the seminar.

2. Environmental awareness campaign

Students may join the environmental awareness campaign in order to raise their awareness towards environment. “Go Green” campaign had been carry out in Universiti Utara Malaysia. Students may bring along those recycle products, like newspapers, cans and bottles to a specific venue to join the campaign.

3. Environmental brochures

Environmental brochures can be spread along the way to class. By giving those brochures, more students may know the ways to protect the environments even they are studying in university now. The location of the recycle bins should be stated in the brochures as well.

Students Business Online Tips

Doing business online is quite common in university. Some of the international students will brings the products, like their local snacks and foods to university and sell it to the students. Moreover, local students will also order the products from foreign countries like China, Thailand and Korea and sell it in university. However, how they sell it? They will sell those products via several groups or even website.

1. Facebook

Students may sell the products to students by Facebook. They may create a page and sell their products. They may also post the photos of products in the group which specially create for UUM’s students.

2. Instagram

Students can sell off those products by Instagram. The privacy of their account will not be set as private account in order to bring convenient for those potential buyers to sell the posts.

3. Personal website

Students can earn some extra money by doing business online. They may create a website and upload all of the photos of products. They may share the link of the website by any other applications, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WeChat. Hence, more students will get know of the website.

The Ways to Earn Extra Income in University

Students have to learn to earn some pocket money during study. It is because the loan that they borrow from government department is limited. There are several ways to earn some pocket money in university.

1. Part time job

Students may works as a part time worker in university. They may work at cafeteria, variety store or beverage store, like Bubble Shake in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). This may help those students to earn some pocket money.

2. Sell of unnecessary things

Students can sell off their things, like textbooks and reference books. Even though they may not get back what they pay when bought those books, but they still can get back some money when they sold those things.

3. Invest in Business

Students can earn some money by investing to business in university. In UUM, there have some businesses that carry out by students, for examples, students will provide delivery service in university, some students are investing in beverage stall or even café. Bubble Shake is one of the businesses that own by international students in UUM.

Students Financial Management

Financial management means planning, organizing, directing and controlling the financial activities. Financial management is important to students in order to prevent students from over spending their money, especially for those students who get the loan from government. Therefore, their financial for every semester are limited. Thus, they need to have a good financial management.

1. Create a budget

Students need to create a budget for themselves, either weekly budget or monthly budget. They may set a limitation for themselves in order to prevent themselves to over spending.

2. Separate wants from needs

Students have to know what are their needs and what are their wants. They should spend less on what they wants because all of that are not necessary things for them.

3. Shop smart

Students should shop smart, especially when they shop for textbooks. It is not necessary for students to buy a new textbook. They may purchase a second hand textbook from senior in order to save the cost.

4. Avoid the use of Debit and Credit card

Debit and credits cards may lead to over spending because the users will not care about the price of products when shopping. They only care what they want. By using those cards, they will easily spend more and lastly owe more debt.

The Ways to Release Stress

Stress can be defined as our emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral reaction to any perceived demands or threats. Having some stress is necessary. However, experiencing too much stress can become problematic. Therefore, stress have to release before it become a burden for students.

There have several ways to release stress.

1. Have a proper rest

Students need to have a proper rest in order to keep their mind fresh. They can be more focus on their studies. Their emotional will be more stable since they are more energize after rest.

2. Gathering with friends

Students may gather with friends when they feel stress. They may share their problems and having fun together. Thus, their mind can be having a well rest during the gathering.

3. Exercise

When students feel stress, they can do exercises, such as jogging, playing badminton and cycling. By exercise, they may physically relax their body. They may relax their mind through exercises too.

4. Plan a trip

Students can plan a trip for themselves when they felt stress. They may get rid of their burden during their trip. Thus, they may relax their mind and lets their mind have a rest before continue their works.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Impact Factors on Academic Motivation

Academic motivation is important for students. However, there have several issues that will affect the motivation.

1. Study duration

Undergraduate students study because all other peers study as well or because the parents expect it. Especially students in the first two semesters study because their environment expects that. That implies that undergraduate students perceive the locus of control for their behaviour outside themselves and thus are more extrinsically motivated. Older students are less dependent from their family and peers in their behaviour and therefore more likely to be interested in the field of studies itself and therefore more intrinsically motivated.

2. Field of Study

Certain occupational fields imply higher future salaries to students than others. Alumni of business administration or engineering earn much more in the average than graduates from social sciences. Financial rewards are perceived to enlarge extrinsic motivation; the same can be supposed for income prospects. The higher the expected salary associated with a certain discipline the more students in this field of study are extrinsically motivated.

3. Social background

Another factor influencing academic motivation is the social background of students; particularly the educational background of the parents is here important. Students with an academic family background are more intrinsically motivated than students without an academic family background.

Ways to Encouraging Academic Motivation

Academic motivation can be understood as the motivation to decide for and continue with university studies. There have several ways to encouraging academic motivation.

1. Target

Students have to set a clear target, for example, target to get 3.0 or above for this semester. Once the target is clearly stated, students will work harder to achieve it in order to get satisfaction from their study.

2. Rewards

A reward is important for students in order to motivate them work harder to achieve their target. Rewards can be in various types, such as a delicious meal, a short vacation with friends or even a gift.

3. Positive Competition

Positive competition among friends and classmates is important. They may motivate each other by positive competition. They may interact and work hard together. Therefore, they will not feel lonely when they busy with their study.

4. Make learning fun

Students may have a group discussion after class with their close friends. They may teach each other when they face problems on their exercises. On the other hand, they may do revision together during study week.