Jabu ni Gandhi Manalu

How to Extract .DZ Files

2012-01-18T12:54:00.000+08:00

DZ extension is not a very popular file extension, it's usually used to compress a dictionary file (hence the name, Dictionary Zip).

Today I got one file of this type and wondered how to extract the dictionary inside. Default file extractor on my Ubuntu machine could recognize the content of the file, but apparently it failed to extract the dictionary. After a moment of googling, I found a way on how to extract a file from a DZ file:

dictzip –decompress dictionary.dict.dz

And the dictionary inside the DZ will be extracted without leaving the original DZ file.

Taiwan Top Universities 2009

2010-04-25T20:40:00.001+08:00

There’re are lots of ranking methodology and results on the Internet. But the list of Taiwan Top Universities I wrote here will be based on QS Top Universities. You can read their university ranking on their website. I’ll list 3-6 top Taiwan Universities grouped by various categories. The Taiwan universities will be ordered based on their ranking on each categories. This post is written by Gandhi Manalu [http://gandhim.wordpress.com].

World University Rankings:

National Taiwan University – NTU (95)
National TSING HUA University (223)
National CHENG KUNG University (281)
National YANG MING University (306)
National Taiwan University of Science And Technology – NTUST (351)

World University Rankings – Natural Sciences:

World University Rankings – Engineering/Technology:

National Taiwan University – NTU (47)
National TSING HUA University (84)
National Taiwan University of Science And Technology – NTUST (143)
National CHENG KUNG University (160)
National CHIAO TUNG University (166)

Asian University Rankings:

National Taiwan University – NTU (22)
National TSING HUA University (40)
National CHENG KUNG University (43)
National YANG MING University (47)
National SUN YAT-SEN University (71)
National Taiwan University of Science And Technology – NTUST (72)

Asian University Rankings – Life Sciences & Biomedicine Subject:

National Taiwan University – NTU (10)
National Taiwan University of Science And Technology – NTUST (42)
National SUN YAT-SEN University (66)
National TSING HUA University (67)
National Central University (69)

Asian University Rankings – Natural Sciences:

National Taiwan University – NTU (10)
National TSING HUA University (33)
National Taiwan University of Science And Technology – NTUST (57)
National Central University (60)
National CHENG KUNG University (63)

Asian University Rankings – IT and Engineering:

National Taiwan University – NTU (16)
National TSING HUA University (32)
National Taiwan University of Science And Technology – NTUST (41)
National CHENG KUNG University (49)
National CHIAO TUNG University (52)

The number in the left is the university ranking in Taiwan on particular category whereas the number in brackets denotes the university ranking in each category.This post is written by Gandhi Manalu [http://gandhim.wordpress.com].

Yahoo Messenger 10 Profile Directory in Vista

2010-04-14T21:15:00.001+08:00

My Yahoo Messenger 10 suddenly crashed, I didn’t know the cause, but it might be the side effect of uninstalling several programs from my computer.

I wanted to reinstall Yahoo Messenger 10, but first I need to backup my profile that includes my chat history, so that all my recorded chats could be restored later. Usually, I could find my Yahoo profile directory at Program Files installation directory, but I couldn’t find it.

After searching through directories in my computer, I found out that Yahoo Messenger 10 stores its user profile in:

X:\Users\<windows_username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\<yahoo_id>
(where windows_username is user’s windows id and yahoo_id is user’s yahoo id).

I hope this post will be helpful for those who have the same problems as me.

WD 1T External Hard disk drive

2010-04-12T09:35:00.001+08:00

Yesterday, I went to Guang Hua, Taipei, to buy a new hard disk drive. At first, I didn’t plan to go there, but to Nova Computer Store at Taipei Main Station. After visited several stores, I found out that the price is about 3,100 NTD, more expensive than the price my friend told me before.

Then I decided to go to Guang Hua instead. Yup, the price in Guang Hua is much cheaper, almost all stores sell with price about 2,850 NTD, and then I found this one store which sells with price of 2,800 NTD. Without thinking much longer, I decided to buy the hard disk drive at this store.

It is WD 1 Terabyte external hard disk drive. It provides a software for smart backup and storage (it installed a virtual CD drive that stores the software). What’s more assured is that it offers a three-year warranty (well actually I wouldn’t stay at this town that longer, but it’s worth noted).

The actual size of the hard disk drive is 930 GB, and I think it’s quite enough to store all my multimedia files :)

Beef Hotpot at Shida

2010-04-10T23:14:00.002+08:00

This afternoon, my friends and I went to hotpot restaurant at Shida area, Taipei. It’s not far from our place so we went there using bicycle, and it took only 15 minutes to get there. From the main road of Shida night market, turn left at the 7-11 intersection, just walk a little more and there the restaurant is. I don’t really know the name of the restaurant, but it’s with an ‘8′ written in its name.

There are lots of hotpot choices, but I ordered beef hotpot because I just like beef :) What’s nice about this restaurant is the price is not too expensive, all food is in the range of 100 – 130 NTD. Better yet, you can take as much rice as you want, and also take as much ice cream and cold tea as you like :)

For the range from 1-10 (where 10 is the most delicious), I give this restaurant a score of 7.0.

Music for My Soul

2010-04-08T18:01:00.001+08:00

I usually play particular songs for different states of my mood. Whenever I felt angry, distressful, or disappointed then I’ll play songs from Kenny G. But not all of his songs fits my weary condition. I usually listen for these songs of Kenny G:

The moment
Morning
Theme from dying young
Loving you
Forever in love
Sentimental
Silhouette

Whenever I heard those songs my soul becomes calm again. I feel relax. It feels like there’s a calm strength fill my mind. And usually, I gain new power to do cope with my problems and do my activity again.

But it doesn’t mean that whenever I play those songs it means I’m in a weary condition :)

Steps in dealing with procrastination

2010-04-08T06:40:00.003+08:00

Procrastination is an evil thing. It comes like a disease, but in a convenient form, yet very disastrous. All of us may have suffered this disease once. Me myself has been dealing with this disease ever since my undergraduate study, and yet it still come tempting me. I've read several book in dealing with this disease, unfortunately it can only help for several weeks. I think I need to always be reminded about this. Lucky me, I've just found an article about the cure, I'll summarize it here (with my own words):

Try to identify the cause of the procrastination.
Plan to do your activity on a certain period of time.
Prepare to do your activity, by preparing things you'll be more motivated on doing the activity.
Just do it.
Reward yourself for things well done on time.

This article has helped me in motivating myself again against procrastination, and I hope it will help you also.

Pay attention to the detail

2010-04-07T01:15:00.001+08:00

I've been struggling with an anomaly in my code for several days now. I've tried to rewrite the code, change some more variables, add the number iterations but it doesn't work out. But then after re-read the paper again I realize that the problem lies on the number of intervals length, I used a very small number of intervals where actually it need a little more number of intervals length.

How I can miss such information? It's because I thought I've understood the global flow of the algorithm and didn't read small information written at the end of the paragraph. D'oh!

Lesson learned: don't assume you've already understood the program, until you read the whole paper thoroughly and in detail.

Qingming Festival

2010-04-05T23:39:00.002+08:00

Today is holiday, let me scream first, Horraaaayyy :)

It is called Qing Ming festival, or usually known as Cheng Beng festival. It's not really a festival in a way like there are parades on the street. No, there are no such thing. In contrary, usually people go back to their hometown and together with their family they go to their ancestors tomb and sweep them, that's why it is also called Tomb Sweeping day.

This tradition is quite similar with what my tribe (Batak tribe) has back in Bonapasogit, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Usually, few days before Easter, a family gather in their ancestors' tomb and clean it. I don't know what's the reason behind this tradition, but I think it's a good one to pay respect to our ancestor.

Could it be that this tradition rooted from the same source? Who knows..

TOP Huayu

2010-04-05T23:21:00.002+08:00

Last week I decided to take a Test of Proficiency (TOP) Huayu. It's a certification test for Mandarin language organized by Steering Committee of the Test of Proficiency Huayu (SC-TOP). You can image it as a "TOEFL" test for Mandarin language. I enrolled on the test not only because it's free (at the time, a promotion I guess) but also because I want to measure how my Mandarin language goes. I took a beginner level, and the test was conducted at Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan.

I've downloaded the sample mock test provided at SC-TOP website, and also review book 1 Practical Audio-Visual Chinese. I thought it was all enough. But the test was just not as expected. There are lots of new characters that I've never known before, and the audio voice was just so fast.

One Japan-born American I met at the test said that the real test is indeed a lot more difficult than the mock test, and he said that there are a special book for the test preparation. Darn! I just knew it at the D-day. I hope I'd knew that several weeks before the test.

Well, this is not an excuse, but a lesson. Next time, prepare well, in a way that read books that are specially designed for the test. What I was doing is just like "taking an English conversation class" for facing "TOEFL" test. That was just not right.

I hope I'll perform better for the next test. Jia you!

Happy Easter 2010

2010-04-04T22:28:00.001+08:00

It's Easter now, so I'd like to say Happy Easter to all of us. May God bless us. Compare to my Easter experience last year, today I didn't come late :)

Since I didn't got any real Easter egg today, I'll give you another type of "Easter egg" :)

To do this, you'll need an Open Office application suite. I'm using version 3.2.0.

Open a new spreadsheet
Type "=game()" at the cell and press Enter, the cell will display "say what?"
Now type "=Game("StarWars")" and press Enter again
A new window for the game will be opened
Have fun :)

After playing you might feel like playing it again. Well, repeating the same procedure will give you a funny response, the application will say "oh no, not again!" :) So you need to close the Open Office application (along with the quick starter at your task bar) and start over again.

Spring is Coming

2010-04-04T10:42:00.000+08:00

Yey, Spring is coming..

or not :( (while writing this post the weather is still very cold, not the kind of Spring I imagined).

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Sample Code using Java

2010-04-04T10:36:00.001+08:00

Yes, I'm still coding and I'm proud of it :)

This post assume that the reader has already known about Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method, and hence I wouldn't spare a space to explain about it. But if you'd like to ask the method's component on the code I provide below then I'll be gladly explain it in greater length. [This post is written by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

In this post, I'll describe and provide a sample code of PSO method for solving a very simple function optimization. Let say that the function to be minimized is as follow:

$latex f(x,y) = (2.8125-x+xy^4)^2+(2.25-x+xy^2)^2+(1.5-x+xy)^2$

With the following constraints: $latex 1<=x<=4; -1<=y<=1$

In order to solve this problem using PSO, we'll need these classes:

Position: to represent Position part of the particle
Velocity: to represent Velocity part of the particle
Particle: the particle itself [This post is written by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]
SimplePSO: the main control of the program
PSOConstants: an interface to define parameters used in the PSO

Since we're going to solve two-variable function optimization, we'll need to provide two-dimensional position and velocity. For the Position we have:


package org.gandhim.pso;

/**
*
* @author gandhim
*/
public class Position {
private double x;
private double y;

public Position(double x, double y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}

public double getX() {
return x;
}

public void setX(double x) {
this.x = x;
}

public double getY() {
return y;
}

public void setY(double y) {
this.y = y;
}
}

For the Velocity we have:


package org.gandhim.pso;

/**
*
* @author gandhim
*/
public class Velocity {
private double x;
private double y;

public Velocity(double x, double y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}

public double getX() {
return x;
}

public void setX(double x) {
this.x = x;
}

public double getY() {
return y;
}

public void setY(double y) {
this.y = y;
}
}

And the Particle is as follow:[This post is written by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]


package org.gandhim.pso;

/**
*
* @author gandhim
*/
public class Particle {
private Position location;
private Velocity velocity;
private double fitness;

public double getFitness() {
calculateFitness();
return fitness;
}

public void calculateFitness() {
double x = this.location.getX();
double y = this.location.getY();

fitness = Math.pow((2.8125 - x + x * Math.pow(y, 4)), 2) +
Math.pow((2.25 - x + x * Math.pow(y, 2)), 2) +
Math.pow((1.5 - x + x * y), 2);
}

public Position getLocation() {
return location;
}

public void setLocation(Position location) {
this.location = location;
}

public Velocity getVelocity() {
return velocity;
}

public void setVelocity(Velocity velocity) {
this.velocity = velocity;
}
}

Pay attention to the calculateFitness() method, it is where we put the function evaluation. Now, we're ready for the main process of the PSO. In this class, we'll need several methods:

initializeSwarm() - to initialize the swarm used in the method
execute() - the main part of the process[This post is written by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

Here's the code (partial code):


private void initializeSwarm() {
Particle p;
Random generator = new Random();

for (int i = 0; i < SWARM_SIZE; i++) {
p = new Particle();
double posX = generator.nextDouble() * 3.0 + 1.0;
double posY = generator.nextDouble() * 2.0 - 1.0;
p.setLocation(new Position(posX, posY));

double velX = generator.nextDouble() * 2.0 - 1.0;
double velY = generator.nextDouble() * 2.0 - 1.0;
p.setVelocity(new Velocity(velX, velY));

swarm.add(p);
}
}

public void execute() {
Random generator = new Random();
initializeSwarm();

evolutionaryStateEstimation();

int t = 0;
double w;

while (t < MAX_ITERATION) {
// calculate corresponding f(i,t) corresponding to location x(i,t)
calculateAllFitness();

// update pBest
if (t == 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < SWARM_SIZE; i++) {
pBest[i] = fitnessList[i];
pBestLoc.add(swarm.get(i).getLocation());
}
} else {
for (int i = 0; i < SWARM_SIZE; i++) {
if (fitnessList[i] < pBest[i]) {
pBest[i] = fitnessList[i];
pBestLoc.set(i, swarm.get(i).getLocation());
}
}
}

int bestIndex = getBestParticle();
// update gBest
if (t == 0 || fitnessList[bestIndex] < gBest) {
gBest = fitnessList[bestIndex];
gBestLoc = swarm.get(bestIndex).getLocation();
}

w = W_UP - (((double) t) / MAX_ITERATION) * (W_UP - W_LO);

for (int i = 0; i < SWARM_SIZE; i++) {
// update particle Velocity
double r1 = generator.nextDouble();
double r2 = generator.nextDouble();
double lx = swarm.get(i).getLocation().getX();
double ly = swarm.get(i).getLocation().getY();
double vx = swarm.get(i).getVelocity().getX();
double vy = swarm.get(i).getVelocity().getY();
double pBestX = pBestLoc.get(i).getX();
double pBestY = pBestLoc.get(i).getY();
double gBestX = gBestLoc.getX();
double gBestY = gBestLoc.getY();

double newVelX = (w * vx) + (r1 * C1) * (pBestX - lx) + (r2 * C2) * (gBestX - lx);
double newVelY = (w * vy) + (r1 * C1) * (pBestY - ly) + (r2 * C2) * (gBestY - ly);
swarm.get(i).setVelocity(new Velocity(newVelX, newVelY));

// update particle Location
double newPosX = lx + newVelX;
double newPosY = ly + newVelY;
swarm.get(i).setLocation(new Position(newPosX, newPosY));
}

t++;
}
}

And the last is the interface for storing the constants:


package org.gandhim.pso;

/**
*
* @author gandhim
*/
public interface PSOConstants {
int SWARM_SIZE = 30;
int DIMENSION = 2;
int MAX_ITERATION = 300;
double C1 = 2.0;
double C2 = 2.0;
double W_UP = 1.0;
double W_LO = 0.0;
}

I made the interface just for the sake of flexibility. A sample of running the program is as follow:

As we can see from the result, the program found the solution of the problem for (x=3.0 and y=0.5). You might have noticed that the program is not optimized yet, for example it could have been stopped when it already found the solution.[This post is written by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

Actually, there are other PSO's components that have not been implemented in this program, for example constraints handling. But since the problem we solved here is a very simple one it doesn't really need the constraint handling.

I hope that this post is useful for you.

New Year's Resolution: Current State

2010-04-04T01:12:00.001+08:00

I don't know why, but it just came into my mind about nine (yes, it's nine!) new year's resolutions that I made on the very first day of this 2010 year.

I'm trying to count how many of them have been realized or at least being attempted. Well, though the progress is not aggressive I'm happy to say that all of them are being proceed. Some is 50% done, the other is still 30% done, but at least they're all started to improve day by day (well at least week by week). I don't want to make a speculation, or even planning an "alternative" resolution in case of some of my resolution are not able to be achieved (on time). All of them are important, so they're all have to be achieved. Though I still have 8 more months to go, I realize I couldn't waste my time again.

So I have to focus to speed up the progress. Stop at doing unproductive activities. Eliminate procrastination spirit. And just do it!

Prof. Kaoru Hirota's Visit

2010-04-04T00:58:00.000+08:00

Several weeks ago, Prof. Kaoru Hirota from the HIROTA LAB, Titech, visit our lab. His lab's research topics are interesting. I hope to go there sometimes in the future. Hopefully :)

Free Pop Yahoo Mail

2010-04-04T00:32:00.001+08:00

Actually this trick is a very old one, but it still works until now, and I've been using it for quite some time now. It just came to my mind to share it with those who haven't known about this yet.

Yes, it's true. You can easily pop your yahoo mails into your desktop based email client like Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail. You just need to change your time zone setting. Don't worry, your email address will be stay the same (endings with @yahoo.com, it won't change into @yahoo.co.id whatsoever). I didn't have much time to provide the visual steps, but I guarantee that the textual steps is comprehensive enough for you to follow.

Here are the steps: [These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

Open your web based Yahoo Mail (I use the All-New version).
At the right hand side of the window there is an Options menu, click on it and choose "More options...".
At the left hand pane you can see several menus, chose Accounts.
At the right hand pane click "Add or edit an account". A new window will be opened to add or edit an account.
Just choose the default one (the one titled Yahoo! Mail) and click Edit button.[These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]
Now you have several options at the left side, choose "Account Information".
You'll be asked to enter your account information (password) again. Just enter it and press "Sign In".
Scroll down to "Account Settings" box, you'll find "Set language, site, and time zone" menu, just click it.
In the new setting, just choose Yahoo! Asia.
Press finished. Now, your time zone will be Yahoo! Asia. Don't worry, it won't change your time zone, you can adjust it under the time zone drop box. [These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu]
Now go back to window opened at step 3. You'll find "POP & Forwarding" menu there. Click it.
At the right side pane choose "Set up or edit POP & Forwarding". A new window will be opened.
Choose "Web & POP Access" to enable POP Access and don't forget to press the "Save" button at the left bottom side of the window.
Now, you can pop your Yahoo email freely into your desktop based email client application.

Depends on your email client application, you can setup a new Yahoo email account. Use this setting while configuring your email client: [These steps provided by Gandhi Manalu - gandhim.wordpress.com]

Incoming mail (POP 3): pop.mail.yahoo.com. Port number: 995.
Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com. Port number: 465.

And you're ready popping your Yahoo email, freely! Have fun.

Choice

2009-12-28T06:47:00.001+08:00

This post is about Sunday morning service I attended at the Grace Baptist Church at Taipei on December 27, 2009. The sermon was taken from Galatians 6:7-10 and preached by pastor Jim West.

7Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Here's what I got:

You can kid yourself about your choice of seed.
1. Gal 6:7a, Do not deceive yourselves.
2. Matt 18:12-13, The process of wandering from truth is one move at a time, so you'll never aware of it. Be careful!
3. Matt 22:29, You are in error because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God.
You can't kid God about your choice of seed.
1. No one makes fool of God.
2. God can't be mocked.
3. We must not even try to ridicule God.
You be careful about your choice of seed.
1. The harvest we gather is a direct result of the seeds we sow.
You never have a choice about what you harvest.

The law of harvest: If we sow good seed, we will reap good harvest.

The law of the ratio of harvest: if we sow a little we harvest a little, if we sow many we harvest many.

Summed up in a sentence: Every person harvests a crop, in due time, that corresponds to the seed he or she planted.

Probing question: What will be the crop that I will harvest?

Download full audio recording here.

Blogging again...

2009-12-02T07:52:00.001+08:00

Finally, I decided to start blogging again.. No special reason for this decision, actually I've been thinking about this for several months, but I just wanted to wait for the right moment. And this is it, the beginning of the end. This is the beginning of December, the last month, the end of 2009.

I can't guarantee (as always) that I'll write regularly, since there are lots of things to do in my daily activities. But I'll try for at least one post per week.

So, welcome back, and enjoy this blog again :)

Cold Town, 1st December 2009

Microworkers

2009-07-14T22:51:00.000+08:00

Salah satu alternatif mengumpulkan receh di Internet. Silahkan daftar.

Lehon Ma Dalan Mi Tu Ahu

2009-07-10T00:32:00.000+08:00

Intro: F Bb Eb Bb F Bb

Bb       F      Gm
Tu dia luluanhu ho
Eb      Dm       Cm
Dame na sumurung i
F           Bb   Eb     Bb

Tung mansai loja Loja situtu
Eb       F                         Eb F
sai sungkun sungkun di bagas rohangkon

Bb         F        Gm
Tu dia sungkunon hu ho
Eb        Dm     Cm
Paboa hatorangan i
F             Bb Eb        Bb
Songon torang ni mataniari i
Eb            F           Eb F    Bb    F
Na manondangi i Marsada-sada hami be

Reff:
Bb     Eb           Bb
Sai ganup ari sai martangiang ahu
C            F
Anggiat boi dibege ho tangianghon
Bb       Eb            Bb Eb
Sai ganup ari sungkun-sungkun do ahu
Bb          F              Bb
Anggiat songgop ho nian di tondinghon

Bb        F     Gm
Sipata marnipi ahu
Eb         Dm Cm
Ro suru-suruan i
F             Bb Eb         Bb
Mangahusiphon i Dame portibion
Eb         F          Eb F      Bb F
Ihuthun ahu Ima soara ni ho Tuhan

Back to: Reff

Test Post from LiveWriter

2009-04-24T00:43:00.000+08:00

Just a test… :)

Easter 2009 Message

2009-04-14T01:03:00.001+08:00

Yesterday, I went to Grace Baptist Church for Sunday sermon. It was a special sermon, because it was an Easter Celebration. Unfortunately, I came late because I thought the sermon will be started as usual, but apparently the sermon was started one hour earlier.

Fortunately (yeah, I always try to find good thing from a less fortunate thing ;p), I arrived in time the priest was giving the message. One lessons that I remembered from that sermon was "It has eternal significance, all that we do for Christ". This reminded me to always do everything in HIS name, even it's a very small thing, because it'll bring eternal significance.

Hope that this lesson could be a blessings for all of you.

Lao-Tze dan Thesis?

2009-04-10T21:40:00.000+08:00

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Kalau tidak salah ada pepatahnya, sebuah pekerjaan besar dimulai dengan langkah pertama :)

Ciaoo, Caioo, Cahyoo, atau?

2009-04-10T21:36:00.000+08:00

Kata-kata di atas, terlepas dari cara penulisannya, pasti sering terdengar ketika ada momen yang memerlukan semangat, misalnya dalam sebuah pertandingan, ujian, dll. Tapi tahukah Anda dari mana asal kata tersebut berasal? Yup, kata tersebut merupakan kata yang berasal dari bahasa Mandarin.

Mungkin ada yang belum tahu bagaimana penulisannya, penulisan yang benar adalah: jia1 you2 (dibaca: cia you, kata pertama dengan tone 1, dan kata kedua dengan tone 2). jia1 dalam bahasa Inggris berarti "add", dan you2 dalam bahasa Inggris berarti "oil/gasoline", jadi terjemahan bebasnya kira-kira "add gasoline", atau "tambah minyak" dalam bahasa Indonesia, yang jika dimaknakan akan berarti "semangat!".

Berikut tulisannya:

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Tipe-tipe Mahasiswa

2009-03-19T18:50:00.000+08:00

Terinspirasi dari pembicaraan kemaren sore, saya teringat dengan sebuah pernyataan yang disampaikan dosen saya sewaktu saya kuliah dulu, ketika beliau ditanyakan mengenai tipe-tipe mahasiswa. Menurut beliau, ada empat tipe mahasiswa yaitu sebagai berikut:

Study-Oriented: Mahasiswa tipe seperti ini lebih banyak meluangkan waktunya untuk belajar. Datang ke kampus hanya untuk belajar, begitu selesai kuliah, segera pulang. Sampai rumah belajar lagi. Hanya tiga kegiatan yang sering dilakukannya, belajar, belajar, dan belajar.

Business-Oriented: Mahasiswa tipe seperti ini lebih banyak meluangkan waktunya untuk mencari uang. Datang ke kampus hanya memenuhi kewajiban kehadiran, kalau dosen tidak strict, dia hampir pasti tidak akan ditemukan di ruang kelas dosen ybs karena sudah melanglang buana mencari uang. Baik buat usaha kecil-kecilan, ngajar les private, dll.

Organization-Oriented: Ruang Senat Mahasiswa, atau Ruang Himpunan Mahasiswa, atau ruang-ruang organisasi adalah tempat dimana mahasiswa tipe seperti ini berada. Hampir semua waktunya diluangkan untuk kegiatan berorganisasi. Rapat, mengadakan seminar, rapat lagi, dialog, dll adalah bentuk-bentuk kegiatan yang sering dilakukannya.

Fun-Oriented: Jangan sampai kuliah mengganggu jam bermain, kira-kira begitulah motto mahasiswa dengan tipe serperti ini. Sehari-hari jarang terlihat di kampus, kalaupun ada di kampus, tidak pernah terlihat sedang membawa buku. Seringkali juga terlihat asik berdiskusi, yang ternyata apabila disimak sedang mendiskusikan trik bermain game yang terbaru. Hanya sebentar dalam keseluruhan waktu di kampus mahasiswa tipe seperti ini terlihat serius, yaitu pada saat-saat ujian.

Pada tiap-tiap kampus, biasanya keempat tipe mahasiswa di atas ada, hanya komposisinya saja yang berbeda.

Tipe mahasiswa yang manakah anda (dulunya)?