Sekadar refleksi dan observasi seorang ibu
One day in the EGL 102 class, Prof. Sloan challenges the students to decide: Which one is the most crucial for communication and human interaction, our sight or our hearing. He continued to ask, “Which ability would you rather not have?”. This question was intriguing to me. I gathered my confidence and raised my hand. …
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The first time I listened to Rage Against the Machine (RATM) was around early 2000. By that time, my brother usually played their song when he was picking me up from school. Listening to RATM inside the comfort of my father’s car, I never really understand the meaning of their lyric. I overheard “Sleep Now …
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EGL 102 is the first class that ever asked me to reflect on my learning style. I am familiar with the concept of “everybody learning differently,” but I have never contemplated this concept to myself. When I first saw this assignment, I immediately thought that I was a visual learner. I watched a lot of …
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It started in 1992, Aang Buhori was a 22 year-old-man. Along with his friends, Aang visited a nearby waterfall around their home in Cianjur, West Jawa. On his way home, Aang was sure a dark being with evil intention was following him. When the night came, he burst out from his modest wooden house, tried …
Thanks to internet that circulates informations about scholarships widely, more Indonesians are studying abroad nowadays, many are going to the United States. It is no wonder if young Indonesian parents who received their Master’s or Ph.D from the United States would also love to send their kids to study in the United States. However, if …
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