Greeting New Students of 2015, LTPB ITB Provide Training Motivation
BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Being a student is a great responsibility that belongs to the best youths of this nation. But, not all youths of Indonesia have opportunity to occupy the college. For new students of 2015, being ITB student is a grace and pride because not everyone has the same chance to be enrolled in one of the best universities in Indonesia. After they escaped and were passed selection, new students will certainly be ITB student. The differences between the campus life associated with the periods of high school, sometimes make freshman feel unprepared to pass this time. Therefore, First Year Student Institution (LTPB) ITB hold training motivation back, titled "Strategi Menuju Sukses Pribadi" ("Towards Personal Success Strategy") on Thursday-Friday (13-14/08/15). 
This motivation in training was expected to help the new students going through life of lectures in ITB. The heading "Strategi Menuju Sukses Pribadi" is selected so that new students can get to know more of the ITB itself to find their true identity. The lecture is very dynamic world which requires not only the academic ability but hardskill also need to be developed. By more getting to know themself, new students can more easily adapt as well as knowing how to behave in the new environment. "Like two wings of a bird, the hardskill and softskill ability are very important for students of ITB to "fly" to reach success," said Dr. Saiful Akbar, ST, MT as one of facilitator training at this time.The material on this training was delivered directly by a facilitator who comes from lecturer and co-facilitator who comes from ITB student in order for the delivery of the material more supple and in accordance with the current state of ITB. Lecturers who provide training are appropriated with faculty from each new student. One of the interesting things is the presence of personality test, that is Dominant, Influence, Steady, Compliance (DISC) test. In this test, new students are required to select the properties that are most similar to those of 40 existing properties list. DISC test is a tool to know and understand the person's behavior. This test will be generated from the tendency of the average ITB students of 2015 behavior. This training was also facilitated with a workbook that must be filled out by the participants in accordance with the direction of the facilitator in any materials provided
This training is also getting a lot of positive response from new students. "A lot of things that I can, like the material on time management in accordance with the classes that will be encountered later," says Martin Lutta (School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2015) as one trainee. In addition to Martin, many other studensts who gave a positive response regarding this event. "With the existence of this event, I am more prepared to face the real lecture life," said Vincent Hendryanto (School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2015). Great expectations for training like this can continue to be carried out to produce students that are successful know personally each one of them.
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