Now that I’m away from my Alma mater, I miss my undergrad years more than ever. No, I don’t miss my classes, mostly I’m missing my peer who have become an important part of my life. And by reading this, you can tell that I was not spending enough time in the library. I miss the before and after class, to sit and chat on that table on that corner, almost everyday. We had good-times and I’m sure many would have agreed with me.
I’m not bragging that I am now a new person with a new set of perspective just cause I’m now a grad student. But looking back on those days, I wished I had to some things differently. On those days, I felt spending time in the library was not that useful. I though debate was something artificial. Reading was just another homework. Why?Cause my surroundings seemed to make me think of these things in such cheezy way. There were limited facilities to accomodate an excited learning experience, the classes were not challenging enough to make students learn and read. And I never quite figured out what skills do I need to build to survive in the real world.
Im still picking up along the way about how alma-mater in ivy league schools could make such a huge impact for their schools. I realize this was something that is not happening in my school. Well I know they’ve been doing stuff but I just haven’t seen the results, or worse I just don’t know cause they have never contacted the alumni.
This again, just another idea that I have in mind that might bring about change in a positive way. I guess it wont hurt if alumni shares their strugles and successes to inspire young ones. It wont be that costly to give contributions (I won’t call it endowment, maybe some of us haven’t reach that point yet) for scholarship, building networking with students and graduates or just making sure that the faculty could subscribe to online journals. Some time I feel that its not the money, but the involvement of alumni and the networking that would make such a different. Maybe I should not wait for my uni to give me a call, maybe if we could get together and make them listen to us, we might bring a whole new perspective for them, particularly for our future generations.
PS: Calling all alumni of FISIP UI to make a change. And if you have started, feel free to share your work and ideas and invite all to join.
