Graduation? Higher educations?

What is graduation?

What the essential things that should be considered before and after graduation day? 

Okey, please answer those questions in your mind.

Decided to continue your study whether in your home country or abroad, you have to consider lot of things:

1. Motivation. For someone (especially for undergraduate- students) who wants to pursue it, how important a higher education for your future?

This is also essential for your actions on track to achieved your goals, you should keep yourself highly motivated, not easy to be depressed or desperate. 

2. Money. This part couldn't be neglected. From where you have money to pay the fees? these fees mean for tuition fee, English proficiency test fee, transportations, documents submission so on. To be realistic, you have to save money whether you have to work first or anything else.

3. Scholarship. Still related to the money, but it would be extremely important to achieve for you who couldn't pay the tuition fee and/or living allowance by yourself, because if you check on several university websites, the tuition fee for international student almost 3 or 4 times to local students fee. The scholarship itself requires you to fulfill some requirements. You can check what kind of scholarship you choose. For example: If you choose Japan for your targeted country, then Monbukagakusho scholarship can be your scholarship list, or the top scholarship in Indonesia now is LPDP, so you can choose the top university in many countries of this globe. 

4. Language proficiency.  From when I/ We should prepare the materials and do the practice for language proficiency test. For example: the university or the scholarship requires English proficiency then I/We should fulfill the requirement. Please check which is your pursuing country.

This part I (the writer) am preparing for the English proficiency test within this one or one-half year.

5.  Professor and Research topic. Confused about this point? then you have to make mind-map of your future research. What field of study, or major, or speciality, or interest? For example: I am a material engineering student, I am interested in advanced materials and renewable energy, and I want to study in developed country (e.g. Japan or England). 

So, you can search in any search engine, which university that has those criteria in each countries→ visit their university website → type any keyword related your interest (generally it will show you the lists of professors or faculties or laboratories ) → visit the faculty website of laboratory website → choose professor (you can choose based on their research interests or publications within 10 years) → if you are interested in their research DON'T hesitate to contact the professor by email. Then the next question is.... How to email the professor in good manner? There are tons of examples of How to email to Professor in the search engine.

6. Du'a (Do'a). The last but not the least, don't forget before and after you make any actions of those points, ask your parents for du'a.

Your effort is linear to your result. Good Luck!

Balikpapan, March 1, 2017