General Orientation
For the General Orientation (GO), I was included in the third batch. My class for the GO is the CBN 05. I knew no one in the beginning and felt very awkward. A few days before the actual GO, someone had the initiative to create a group and started a chat to break the ice between all of us. I was really afraid that I was going to be an outcast at first.
On the first day of the actual GO, we made an appointment to wait for each other in front of the Syahdan campus and we actually did. I got to know them better and found out that they were the nicest and the friendliest group of people I’ve gotten to know. We went inside the class and the first day went by as we went over the briefing materials, including the schedules and singing the Mars Binus & Mars Binusian, and got to know more people and our BC (Buddy Coordinators). It was a fun-filled day.
The second day’s schedule was Binusian Journey and Binusian Way. We were explained about the journey we were about to face by our BCs who have already gone through it before us. The second session, the Binusian Way, was held in the Auditorium where we were introduced to Ms. Nelly. She explained to us about Binus University as a whole, the alumnus, and what are expected of us as Binusians.
The first session of the third day was Bunga Rampai, where we were shown all the UKM (“Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa”), some sort of extracurricular activities or communities, of Binus University. It was very amusing to see how Binus is helping us, Binusians, to develop and deepen our skills in other non-academic areas. The second was all about the official stuff, such as registration, payment, exams, etc.
It was Friday when we had our fourth GO day. We were separated into groups based on our religions and were brought to separated rooms where we were introduced to the religious communities of Binus University. Mine was PO, which is short for Persekutuan Oikoumene, a Christian community. I was introduced to the seniors and to the yearlong activities of PO. Once we were finished with our own different sessions, we were then gathered and the next session about the rules and regulations was delivered. After the second session, we were supposedly done with our fourth day but there was an additional session where we met Mr. Andreas Chang who spoke to us in the Auditorium for quite a while.
The fifth and last day was the most memorable day out of the five days of GO, the Expo. The first part of the Expo was the togetherness. We all sat in the parking lot and each class performed their own unique performance, which they had been preparing throughout the previous 4 days. My class performance was one of the most interesting one since it was the only one without a song mutual to any other classes. The second part was the touring and registration of UKM. We went around Syahdan campus classes with our BC and got ourselves registered to the UKM we wanted to join.
All in all, the GO was a total blast. I am very grateful to have been a part of it.