First Semester

Still, during 1st semester, DD ITB-Japan and The Netherlands were in the same classroom, we had additional 3 classmates from SPIRIT Program and a foreigner from Holland as well. It's inevitable that people in charge of administration office would be our friends from the beginning until we graduated.

Assignments talk

I can say that being student was a fun, hilarious and complicated period. Now, all of us, except the Dutch are civil servants, the we should change our mindset dealing with academic papers and presentations, journals, and examinations. Figure it out! The reason to escape from work sounds not a good idea. 

Initially, we had pre-magister classes for just about a week because it was nearly to break for Eid. Fortunately, it didn't affect the grade. 

with Richard Legates (The City Reader Author)

Much reading in order to be critical students was demanding. Critical review, for example, was such a drug, bitter but useful, maybe addictive. I admit it can improve my knowledge and broaden my perspective. Here, you feel that you are inseparable with laptop and internet access. Luckily, the lecturers were nice, even sometimes either their personality or explanation were confusing. Actually, the assignments were challenging and time consuming. Speaking of cheating, you should do it smoothly and in good manner. Then, working experiences are damn helpful. You will find the bright side of working for government. Honestly, however, I just did what I could, whatever the grade I won't be an unemployment at the end.

Mr. Ito was watching the final exam

The subjects were taught in English, but sometimes Bahasa was needed. In several times, ITB invited abroad guest lectures, and we had to attend their classes because they were regarded as replacement classes of related professors.

'kitchen'

In addition, we had special classroom with necessary facilities, so it was like your second home as you may come and go whenever you want. We called delivery service, sometimes, or spent time until night just to have internet access and finished the papers. We shared the class materials into dropbox, so having the copies without knowing the content was pretty relieving. For cleaning, we collected money per month, then we bought our needs, like drinking water.