Reflection by Shit Sin Ean (SIB 150062)

NAME :SHIT SIN EAN

MATRIC NUMBER : SIB 150062

First of all ,I was not planning to take this course "social engagement" for this semester. But then some of my coursemates persuaded me to join in this semester, so that we were able to work together. At that time ,my credit hour reached its maximum then i had to apply extra credit hour to register this course. But i am not regret to this decision because what had happen was unforgettable.

In my opinion, "social engagement" is a compulsory university course that just want student to engage with the social by doing charity work. But after the briefing by Dr. Selvi, I know that this course is to practice students' soft skills. 

After a few meeting, we decided to held a camp at MRSM di Pendang, Kedah .We also came out the organisation chart to smooth the process of organize the camp.We all agreed with the name of the camp "Inspire The Aspire".Then, it needed a lot of preparation such as negotiated with MRSM and planned a series of activities in the camp. We had a lot of workshop that to practice the dance and cheers ,think about the game station and the distribution of members. This was important to make sure all of us understand the flow of activities and can present it well during the camp.

During the camp, i was paired up with one of my coursemate, Farhan. We were the facilitator of group 5 which name was "Blazer". Maybe this was the first time for me to be the facilitator so i showed a little bit shy when i met with my group. But then i try to use my "broken malay" to communicate with all of them, luckily my group showed cooperation and patience to me. 

After getting a well relationship within my group, i threw away my shyness and started to lead my group to cheer our own yells and compete with others group. I was really shocked when i found out my group was exactly creative and intelligent when we want to produce our yells and performance for talent night. The ideas that thought by them were out of my mind. I felt for the glory of my group because they showed a very good attitude which dint take the money on the floor and did not do fake job during one of the "grand chase" game.

During the sharing session, we shared our moments about this camp and experience about learning science. Although they were just form two students but they showed interesting to science. They asked us whether we will do this program again in their school or not, and we answered them,"if can, we will do it again".

After this camp, i never forget every angel in my group, they are too energetic and has determination. I learnt about social engagement is important to everyone. It teaches us a lot of lesson such as cooperation, build up confidence and self esteem which we cant learn from book. We should not just focus on the book,what we need is take more time to engage with this social.

Last but not least, thank you to my instructor Dr Selvi, all the facilitators and the MRSM students. Because all of you, we had made this program successed !