Seleksi Nasional Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Negeri 2011

 Speaking of SNMPTN exam. This is my story. Guess I'm being nostalgic now, hahaha

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            After spending a night in my friend’s house and continued to stay in mosque all night to study, I woke up. First thing in my mind was, “God, this is it. SNMPTN’s first day”. I came home, took a bath and having breakfast. Then I went to SMPN 5 Surakarta, location of my exam. Yep, bismillah !! I work on my exam.

            The 1^st day wasn’t going well. It’s because the lack of time (corruption of time, I say) given to participant. The schedule said exam will be held at 9-10 a.m, 60 minutes. But, we only given 45 minutes. When the bell rang, marking that time is up, I still didn’t know what’s happening. ‘Til I realize that we only given 45 minutes of work. Then I quickly fill my answer sheet. That last minutes, my mind was full with confused, panicked, and protest. And when the examiner stand beside me, asking for my sheet, I look up to her and ask, 

“kok udah selese bu ? bukannya 60 menit ya ? saya hitung tadi cuman 45 menit.”

“ya kan udah bel mas…”

“lah ya ngga bisa bu ! Disini tertulis 60 menit kok. Berarti jatah kami ya segitu !”.

“nggak bisa mas, kalo udah bel ya pokoke dikumpulin”. 

I realized that this protest wasn’t going anywhere. So I look at my sheet again and continue to fill it. Miss examiner, felt that she was being ignored, grab my sheet. It almost got ripped, you know. Ah, and I could do nothing at the very end. “Fuck it, fuck you examiner, fuck all of you other-participants-who-didn’t-protest-with-me, fuck the bell”, that’s what I was thinking then. I got angry. Then I hurry to come home, to get some rest and cooling down my mind.

            The 2^nd day was different. It’s smooth and went as expected. Alhamdulillaah. But still, I concerned about yesterday..

At the announcement day ~

            I was swimming with my friends at one afternoon. When we’re done, suddenly our cell phone got many notifications. Many asking if we’re accepted or not. “What ? Now ? I thought the announcement is at 6 p.m”, I think. Realizing this, all of us, suddenly in a rush, went home. We’re hurry to open the internet for announcement. Me too. And, alhamdulillaah..

I GOT ACCEPTED IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS !!

Yes, this is clearly what Allah wants. He wants the best for me and I believe. Without thinking, I raise my hand and shout, “Alhamdulillaah !”. I down on my kneel, then doing “sujud syukur”. Then I ran to inform my family. They are all happy. Huhu, after all this struggle over the year, finally Allah gave His permission for me to do “tholabul ‘ilmi” in UGM Yogyakarta.

*when I searched any information about UGM the other day, I met a familiar, yet strange name in a website and Facebook account. It said “Merpati Putih Kolat UGM”. It made me curious. Guess I’ll check it out, once I went to UGM. Hehehe.