What I Learn in College?

It’s nearly three years I am studying at English Letters Department of Sanata Dharma University, time surely goes fast! It feels like tomorrow I just started my college day as a freshman and now, counting the days to be a senior! Wow, I can’t believe I becoming a senior (‘__’)

This February I will begin my sixth semester which will be filled with paper and…papers. In the sixth semester all students of English Letters here will have to do research papers on both linguistics and literature, we cannot choose which subject to be taken yet because we’ll do it in the seventh semester. To be honest, I have no interest in literature, really. I did have it when I was in the third semester because I thought it is easier than the linguistics one, but after I passed my fourth semester I totally changed my mind. For me, literature is a really complicated subject and those who mastered it are smart person(s). In literature, even though I have finished read a book, I will have to reread it again and again to be able to deeply analyze it and find evidences for my analysis. I am an easy-to-be-bored person; therefore I think literature is not my destiny.

Studying for almost three years here of course gives me some lessons in academics that apparently related to the life. At first, I didn’t recognize this but when I was in the fourth semester I found out that the theories I learn in the class can also be used in my daily life, they are very useful!

How to BOOST Your Confidence [Tips & Tricks]

Not many people know behind my loudness and cheerful behavior I have an issue; I am a loner.  Every time I am in a crowded place I will feel like a stranger there, usually I will remove myself from the circle, stand alone then staring at them like watching a movie. While other people feel uncomfortable having dinner alone at a restaurant, I have no problem sitting on a chair alone while eating my delicious food. Realized that this is a weird habit, I tried to find the reason why I became a loner like now. Can you guess what the main reason is? Confidence, yes it is the main reason lead to many sub-reasons like shy, uncomfortable and feel underestimated. Finding my confident feeling is not that easy, I often had fights with my own self and had to lose my egoism, you know how hard it is to lose your ego.

After found the main reason of my weird habit, I try to find the solution and I practice it every time, even until now. Luckily I have supportive surroundings which help me to practice all of the tricks without any one notice it. Here, I want to share my tricks to develop my confidence so that it is not only me who get enlightenment (?) in life HEHEHE :P

P.S: Basically, these are all cliché tricks that always echoed whenever we talk about self-confident.