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FULL NAME
Cynthia Nathasa Gawing

PROGRAMME
WA14 Bachelor of Social Sciences (Anthropology & Sociology)

GENDER : FEMALE
PLACE OF ORIGIN : SIBU, SARAWAK

ASPIRATION : “Success consist of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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When I arrived here in UNIMAS for the first time, I learned that I quickly know how to adapt new environment as a student that are far away from family. I have been far away from my family that why I know how to be independent when family doesn't around. I also learned that how to approach  people. I get a lot of friends that come from different races. From that I learn how respect others cultures instead of get to know about their cultures. Its quite good for me since my programme is Anthropology and Sociology.

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When it comes to study, I truly change a lot. How? I made my own timetable in order to be systematic. I wrote my own journal everyday after finish every lecture that I attend that day.

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Most of the new learning skills I learned from this subject. The way I view on  something has change. I mean like  I need to attach an evidence  before making some argument. I also need to give logic explanation based on evidence instead of just giving an opinion. Beside that, I learned how to interpret case study based on theories and evidence.

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INTRODUCTION TO MALAYSIAN SOCIAL HISTORY

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INTRODUCTION TO MALAYSIAN SOCIAL HISTORY

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In this subject, I just knew that History that I leaned before are only just a small part of whole history that happen in Malaysia. Other than that I also learned that I need to speak out and give some thought about politics issue in Malaysia. I learned debating skill through this learning.

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In this subject I learned how to use SPSS and ability to sort big data. Its not just about counting the numbers, but I also know how to solve the problem  and interpret the problem based on the data that I get.

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Last 23 November 2019, me and my Softskills classmates was doing our volunteerism project. Our aim of this project is to decorate and clean the toilet of FSSH. I learned how to coorporate with others people in order to make the project successful. I also learned how to to proposal and organize the activity.

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1. Be systematic in everything
2. Learn new words every days
3. Keep a daily journal

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In this semester, I obsessed with reading. During pandemic session I have nothing to do. I take a initiative to read many kinds of books through online. Most of the books that I have read were based on story  and in English. Its truly help me a lot to improve my English. Besides, I would able understand well what they write even if the sentence structure were difficult to understand. By reading, I could spend my time in a proper way. I also learn how to read article and journal and its help me a lot as I would be able to know if the article or journal were related to things that I want to use as references.

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New things that I have learned in this semester.

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New things that I have learned in this semester.

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Obviously, in this semester, most of the subject were need students to learn about research things. I able to know how choose and create a research topic, write research proposal, writing report and anything that related to research things. I can say I am not fully understand all of it but I try to study and make notes for myself.

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What I have learned from this semester subject?

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What I have learned from this semester subject?

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Deviance and Crime
First of all, this subject taught me how to do precis. By doing precis, I able to understand and learn to write summary from the article. Besides, in this subject also, I am able to learn how to write term paper (phenomenon). It was really hard to understand what need to be write and done for this term paper but due to the reading through online I was able to do it.

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This semester I was able to knew new ways of learning that was suitable for myself. For example, everyday I would pick one new word or phrase to learn, understand and memorize the meaning of it. In the end of the week, I will make a quiz for myself. It was fun. Other than that, I also try to keep a daily journal. I will write down what are the things that I would like to achieve on that day and write about what have I learn during the day. It was important for me to do it because I can recall and read again what had happened. One thing that I have learn from writing journal everyday is I was able to practicing skills of writing.

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Before the MCO, I have an opportunity to visited Kampung Pangkalan Kuap as a place to do my assignment (Introduction to Politics Science Subject). I went there were not alone, but with 4 of my friends. I experienced a lot of things. Journey and adventure to the place that I never went before were not really new things for me but when I go to the new place and do some study on it were really a new experience for me. I honestly said that I would love to do it again in the future as an individual or group. But I prefer it as a group. Working in the group was really challenging but somehow it was fun. We randomly picked and were not really close to each other even though we were in the same classes. 4 of my member’s group are from Sabah and only me are from Sarawak. Because only me came from Sarawak, they all count on me and choose me as a leader. It was a really big task for me, because normally I would love to prefer as a normal member which is just to follow the orders. But they somehow helped me throughout the journey and also guided me. They are also not afraid to voice out their opinion. The journey to the kampung was not only challenging but it also taught me a lot of things. I learned how to interact with the local community. I learned how to ask simple questions in order to get many details from people. Joining the kampung’s activities is one of the alternative ways to fulfill our project objective. I went to Malays Sarawak wedding ceremony which I never experienced before. It was so interesting because I collect a lot of information from many people at the events through observation. In these events, I can see how people interact and help each other to function well in society. People in Kampung Pangkalan Kuap were not selfish at all. I also learned that because Kampung Pangkalan Kuap has organised many kinds of activities, the relationship between the people in that village has become stronger. Obviously, this experience teach me a lot of things. As a social science student, it is important to learn and improve our communication skills so that we would able to gain many knowlegde and information from society.

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I just realize that online learning teach me one skill that was very important. A vital skill of learning. By doing online learning, I get to cultivate a lot of skills while doing my online course. I will learn how to be an independent learner. I also learn a sense of responsibility and ownership. Besides, I truly understand the value of time and learn how to manage it well. For me, online learning is flexible and more advance. You will get indirectly  upgrade yourself into another level and  better prepared to work in the digital age even though online learning may cause social isolation and lack of communication skills. But for me is, no matter it online learning or classroom based-learning, as long as it can provide me with some knowledge and make me understand about my course, I am fine with it.

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This semester I have oppurtunity to learned about fertigation. Its fun!

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I learned that last semester I am not really focused on my study. Maybe because of the environment, I am at home and I feel I have been distracted a lot. It’s really hard to focus since I was at home and I was unable to do my assignment earlier. I think that is the reason why my pointer dropped. This semester I should do some improvement so that my result of this semester will be better than before.

I came to realize that I should make some changes in my study timetable. I have this serious headache problem because I always sleep late at night. Then, during day time, I was unable to focus in the class. Due to that reason, I changed my study and assignment time to day time and during night, I can sleep and rest early. It works well for me.

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This semester is really tough for me. I think maybe because of the assignment. There are two classes that are really difficult. Its Borneo Ethnography and Indigenous Community & Environment subject. The assignment is really hard where we have been asked to do a critique essay and analysis in which we have never done this kind of assignment before. Until now, I guess, I still don’t know how to do it. But at least I try. I learned that as a student we should be flexible and be prepared to learn something new. Next semester, I will try my best to be flexible and I hope that I can apply what I learned in this semester.

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This semester, one of my friends as me to become her assistant. She is an event organizer and have many job during this semester.  From this experience, I learned many things. I learned to how doing the tentative programme, dealing with client, print out many important documents, doing post mortem, writing report, become middle person to deal with many things and others. Besides, through this experience, I can apply all this knowledge in other places. For example, my church always conducted many programme and activities. So, I can help by participate in organizing the programme and activities. The activities is always about big event like camping and workshop. This experienced of course take a lot of my times and I was unable to focus on my study and assignment. I bet that is why my grade is drop. I hope in the next semester I are able to become more systematic and maybe quit awhile from this part time job.