USM Nibong Tebal

It was a wonderful place..tho I have to admit its hot over there. The place was big tho not as big as the one in Penang island. But still its situated on a large piece of land. The distance from my hostel to my faculty is about 20mins walk but the provide us with shaded pathway all the way.

My 7 days there were very hectic as my seniors drive us nuts with packed schedule with full of activities. In just a single day we have to walk to and fro from the hostel the spot where all faculties are situated far away.So roughly we have to walk around an hour each day with faster-than-normal speed. I bet if I were to go on a shopping spree with my mum,she won't be able to endure walking for long with me with my new pace.

There are many lecture halls about 9 for all the schools to use. Those are called Dewan Kuliah. Then there are 6 faculties of engineering namely:

Material and Minerals Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
Electric&electronic Engineering,
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering.

There are roughly 3ooo smth of us in first year.And most of us have CGPA of over 3.2. 75% of the lecturers here are PHD holders. What made me actually feel proud of being in USM is the spirit each of us have. Even tho we barely knew one another we actually cheered our loudest for our own school of engineering. And when our seniors are mean to any one of our members, and they ask the crowd whether they shoudl punish somoone, we will side with our members if we find that they are wrongly or overjudged. There was once one of the Civil Engineer fell asleep in one lecture and the senior sorta scolded him and wanted to punish him but we booed the senior and said that its perfectly normal. For we have to wake up around 6 smth and our lectures lasted til about 11 smth at night.

But of course, the long ours are only for the orientation week. Next week, my classes will be pretty alright with only 14 hours of tutorial and 4 hours of lab. And we also get to pick which foreign language we want to take up for free for a duration of 3 to 4 years depending on each individual. The languages offered are:

Spanish
Russian,
Arab,
Japanese,
Korean,
Thai,
German,
Chinese,
French

I'll be taking Japanese classes.We will learn how to write and converse.Its compulsory for us to take one foreign language so that we will have enough credits to graduate.

And another co-curricular activity I'll be takin will be SCUBA diving. We will learn it and obtain a certificate after one sem and a license after 3 sem.


What are the facilities they have there are as follows:

A Recreation Centre where we can rent courts for tennis,badminton,squash,and sepak takraw for only 50 cents an hour. There are of course many fields for football,netball, and etc.

A Medical Centre for sick students to go to. for minor health problems such as cold,cough,fever,food poisoning, the medication are for free. If there are any serious problems like fracture and serious illness, the doctor there will send the students to the nearby hospital where the fees will be covered by insurances provided.

A 4 storey library where we need a student smart card to enter. In fact every room,lab and buildings except the hostel needs us to swipe our smart card to enter. In fact all of us have a bank account in Bank Islam witch is also in the University compound. Our smart card also serves as an atm card.

There are 2 cafeterias. Selling malay food,chinese food, roti canai, burgers, drinks and oth food stuff. Food there are reasonable. There was once I ate rice with drumstick,vegetables,an egg, a limau ice and all of that only costs RM1.70.

Thats all for now, I'll be back almost every weekend provided I dun have SCUBA on Saturday.More updates next time.