Never say that you cannot!

Dave Weinbaum asserts: "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." This saying motivates many people to fight their terrible fear and keep the highest power in progress to gain their life destinations. Notwithstanding, usually they also fully realize they have many weaknesses that are likely to impede the progress and encourage its failure. If they face the doubt of success, they only have to be determined that nothing is impossible when humans have desire to try to get the ultimate success. 


It is my own experience that story about how I change my notion about talent and effort. Bangkok and Thammasat finally reinforces my belief that a talent is not everything because we can win everything we want with our hard effort. Before I acknowledge the rightness of that belief, I was always accompanied by the fear of failure in academics. In Bangkok, I am expected to quickly adapt to new situations. I should be accustomed to study with different people in different system of learning. At first, I doubted on my ability to be able to achieve the high score in academic matters. Actually there is no one that gives me responsibility to gain excellent academic score but I always force myself to show my best performance. Nevertheless, I had many obstacles in my own mind to success on what I plan to do. Thammasat predicated as the second-best university in Thailand unconsciously depresses me and bring me to get my lowest confidence. 


Why I failed to build my self confidence in my new environment? It is not far from the reason that I felt so weak, so small, and less powerful because I always considered all conditions in Thammasat have the higher standards than mine. I was a little bit apprehensive about my capability that would be competed with other students. Thammasat has best learning systems and its system makes the impression on the tight regulations, the high grading standards, the perfect academic staff, and the best chosen students for me.


First, I worried if Thammasat applies burdensome regulations that were likely to make me difficult to follow. I want to give the best image as Indonesian exchanged students transferred to study in Thammasat. However, I was afraid I cannot undertake all ideals I have. For simple example, I am expected to arrive at campus punctually. It is not a hard obligation for students who are customized to come to class on time. However, I very realize that I cannot be categorized as a diligent student that always obeys all of Thammasat official regulations.


Secondly, Thammasat University and its best learning system can guessed it will apply the higher grading standards than my home university’s standards. I thought it would be difficult to gain a good score in Thammasat although actually I had joined all of Thammasat courses’ in my home university. However, it does not simply study over again in different university because what Thammasat courses’ materials have more detailed explanations, further analyzed contents, specific information.


Thirdly, both worries above are completed by the condition that I have to compete with many high quality students in Thammasat. I consider myself as student with an average intelligence and it will be hard to compete with Thammasat students. I am conscious that I have a lack to memorize. Besides, the ability to remember is very needed in my History classes. I have to memorize the names of important figure, the name of particular events, the details of date and causes. I am expected to know the details of historical knowledge without doing analysis at all. I prefer to analyze certain topics, searching as much as my own data (regardless any standard of lecturer' data), give my own objective opinion, build my scientific interpretation, and make my perfect conclusion. I think it will be more essential than students are only demanded to remember all information lecturer have prepared for them. Unfortunately, desire may skew reality. Thammasat learning systems require its students to know all information presented by the lecturers, not to have their own opinions.

Fortunately, Now I am not worried about whether I will gain success in academic matters or not. Alllah always gives me guidance to be able to solve my problem. With the permission of Allah, I always attempt to show my highest effort in academic matters. Regardless what score I can gain, I study as strong as I can. I never give up although at first I felt so weak because of three main reasons above; the regulations, grading standard, and high quality students. My mid-term examinations become an example of the idea that all things can happen if humans want to show their efforts. I use my weakness as learning for the next steps and undertake the powerful efforts in facing mid-term examinations. Finally, my efforts equal its results; moreover, it is not about talents. It is about attainment that all humans can achieve although they have so many weakness and less talents. Two points that I can learn from my weakness at the first time I face different conditions in Thailand and Thammasat as specific. Those are the importance of self reliance and the belief that all objectives can be achieved by all people with their high efforts. Now, you can imagine, I as an academically less talented student can gain success in academic matters, why are there still many people always say "I cannnot because I have no power (talent)". People only have to show their efforts!  


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