Reflection
Today, I discover on how to set my profile in ePortfolio. It is a new for me, definitely confusing but I tried my best and explore. This platform is very useful for me as a student as I can have everything in just one click. Other than that, it is also easier for lecturers to get information about me. Not just that, I can also access to other people's profile and make new friends. All in all, I hope I can benefit this platform well and use it for good purposes
In order to improve my potential in industry, I told myself to take things as a challenge not take it for granted. Next, I am going to take any opportunity given and learn new things to develop myself and increase my knowledge. It is crucial now to have soft skills balanced with your studies. Without it, the employers may not be interested in you. Developing soft skills are also one of the thing I want to do by joining talks, competitions and learn more language for programming. On top of that, I am looking forward to join competitions because I love being competitive and being in pressure. Putting myself in pressure makes me push myself to give the best. All in all, I am going to take this degree journey as a challenge and a fun path for me to go through.
Before I sit for SPM I wanted to become a dentist one day but after that while I was searching for my path, I discovered about Data Science and it attracts me somehow. Since that, I did my research and found that UTM offers a course related to this field. At that point, I acknowledge that getting myself into UTM is hard and I need to study well to get into. Then, I continue my foundation study in UTMSPACE because the chance of getting into UTM is higher. I got offers from UiTM Dengkil and Kolej Matrikulasi Melaka but I rejected them. So getting into UTM to continue my study in Data Engineering is my goal from the beginning. I tried my best, almost lose hope in the middle because I did not do well during my sem 2 and fortunately, I got into UTM. I was so happy that I could not describe it. When I started my degree journey, the only thing I had in mind is to become a successful graduate with excellent result, not just in study but I want to be active in curricular activities too. I will make sure to build myself better and get all new lesson as much as possible. This is to ensure I can secure a job later to make empolyers see me as their potential employee. I really hope I can be a data engineer or anything related to this one day. I am sure this will be a tough journey but I am going to enjoy and appreciate every second of it.
At first, I was very excited to be in UTM as a new student to learn new things and explore but Covid-19 pandemic gets in the way where the learning method is only online. It is sad because I can't make new friends, asking lecturers question face to face and no study group. But, every cloud has silver lining. Everything went well, it was hard to adapt at first but I manage to do it. Learning online is a whole new experience for me. You have to be more independent, diligent and one thing I realize is that you need to be alert. This is because you have no friend around to remind you so it depends on you, yourself only. Learning online is difficult and sometimes I feel like it is unproductive because my eyes tend to get tired by sitting in front of laptop and then I'll fall asleep. On top of that, learning only by watching videos are not enough for me. I am someone who learns through example thus I need to find example by my own. At least, if in UTM I can directly ask lecturers for more example to understand better. All in all, it is indeed a good journey and I am looking forward for physical class.