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A visit to the Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) was held on Monday, 1 October 2018. This visit was organised by Technology & Information Systems Lecturers. During this visit, students were introduced to many things such as the terms and policy of UTM ICT the services that the CICT provided for the students and staffs and much more information about CICT. Almost all of the first year students and lecturers were involved in this visit. All of the students that were involved were from the same faculty, which is the faculty of computing . 

CICT which is located in building D07 were built in 1975 as a computer centre. Then, in 1981 CICT merged with the computer science department and became a part of computer science facility under the Faculty of Science. In 1984, it was changed into Computer Science Institute. And in 1991, it was turned into Computer Science & Information Systems Faculty and UTM Computer Centre. But then in 2004, Computer Centre was changed again into Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) until now. 

CICT was committed to ensuring students and staffs satisfactory rate at a high level in terms of internet services. Because of the slow internet services that can be found at a specific place, CICT plans on increasing the speed, so that the satisfactory rate reached to where it was targeted.

CICT wishes to improve more all of the connection facility within the campus in the near future, although CICT had already made a crucial improvement in the past.

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the visit gave the students a new field of knowledge on CICT itself, from how it started, what it used to be, who the staffs are, and also what kinds of equipment or computer hardware which are stored within the building.

On 27 th September 2018, our group had a visit to an event known as NALI that was held at Dewan Sri Iskandar for two days which is 26 th and 27 th of September. We a group of five members, Syafei, Syakir, Mugindiran, Muharrir and Gifari were fortunate to be able to witness and experienced this amazing event. NALI stand for New Academia Learning Innovation which focus on exhibiting new way of learning system developed mostly by the student of UTM and others outside participants. The innovation here mostly dedicated to change the old way of teaching to a newer and better to make sure the students to have a better quality learning sessions and able to satisfy the new learning concepts introduced by KPM in 2015 which is STEM. Most of them are trying to adapt and compete with other top universities worldwide that had long developed and implemented various of techniques to enhance their teaching skills. There are about 100 booths opened up during the event and we managed to visit three of them which is, Drop of Light booth, InMotion Concept Booth and Coolverter Booth.

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The NALI visit gave us a glance on how to think as an inventor for solving problems in the distant or near future.

Many students rely on loans to get them through college. Yet, sometimes students borrow too much money while in school. Excess loan money leads to debt that students must pay back after graduation delaying other financial goals. With the proper educational support about living independently, students can reduce their chance of obtaining unnecessary debt from educational loans. Young adults generally learn their skills from parents and teachers as children. However, parents often overlook teaching financial skills, such as budgeting and investing, while their children are still living at home. Instead, children are forced to learn how to handle their money when entering college and sometimes they make mistakes that will cost them several years of repayment of loans. This study examines whether did RM application contributes in solving financial problems students face.  

First of all, poor financial management is the main cause students are facing financial problem. For majority students, it is the first time they have experienced financial independence without parent’s supervision. They fail to do the management and flow of the money. They do not have the skill to manage their own money. They do not ensure that money is well spent and not misused. These problems are common among students attempting to balance small budgets with living expenses. Some students are not mature enough to handle finances and they overspend. Poor financial management also happened when students do not have discipline in their budgeting and spending money. Some student  likes to buy things without considered about the prices. Which mean student do not make the best buy that can help student spend less money. Besides, although students have tights budget, but they tend for living financially. For example, students that like to go to bars, partying and even go to the pubs. They do not really plan the future used of the money.

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Design Thinking is assigned as the students project assignment that requires the students to pour in their brainstorming ideas which are formed due to the problems that are usually faced by people, which are very very crucial in terms of being an entrepreneur.