Friday, September 26, 2014

Searching for The Meaning of ‘Skripsi’

First, i want to make an exception to using Indonesian for the word ‘skripsi’ (thesis) to differ it from Master Degree’s thesis.

Skripsi is one of the term of graduate and get an academic title for Bachelor Degree students. The point is: “you don’t finish your skripsi, you don’t get your title”. But for me, get a title is not a goal from finishing my degree.  When I enter university and start my study in Agroindustrial Technology Education Department, I don’t think that I have to get a title. In opposite, I think “Why I get ‘S.Pd’ title instead of ‘S.TP’?” I prefer ‘S.TP’ I guess. ‘S.Pd’ sounds like an abbreviation of ‘Sepeda’ and ‘S.TP’ is ‘Estipi’. It’s funny to hear and say. But. . . whatever. The important thing is I finish my study with my best effort and respectful. No cheating, cheating is just for cheap.
Some college students maybe feeling awful when hear skripsi and they get so much obstacles when finish it off. And when the obstacles getting difficult as the time goes on, they start to ask. . .

“Why the skripsi is a must for us?”

And it’s so, happen to me as well.
I start to search for the meaning of skripsi and the aim of doing skripsi as well. I ask google, some other students, and books. Most of them answering theoretically so I still don’t get the point and then start to ask. . .
“What we get from having a college study?”

I discover the answer by myself -and the answer probably have been widely known by prior students- which is to develop your mindset and change some of your paradigm of anything. Maybe the reader think “that’s all you get? I’ve been know it for a long time”. But it different from me, when i discover, i really know it’s mean. I mean, not only its meaning but also its feel.

One of the most affecting person in my paradigm of skripsi is my supervisor. She is a careful, detailed, responsible, and courteous woman so I couldn’t miss any detail in my skripsi. I learn to be a courteous student as i interact with her. With the way she treat me in every counseling, i realize my fault in the skripsi one by one. It works. I realize the aim of doing and finishing my skripsi, that i want to made a useful product in the field of education. Then i start to realize what the meaning of skripsi. It is a training for every college student to be accustomed in thinking scientifically and structured. Scientifically means you have to proof your argument based on the grand theory or the fact that generally recognized. Structured means you have to write your argument down step by step so that there is a correlation between a word and word before, between a sentence and a sentence before, between a paragraph and a paragraph before. Think structured is torturing at the beginning. But once you accustomed, it’s just a piece of cake (but it still hard for me to accustomed haha). Then, another question arise. . .
“What’s the point of think scientifically and structured?”

Think scientifically and structured is related to the aim of having a college study, which is to develop your mindset and change some of your paradigm of anything. Once you develop your mindset and think structured, you’ll be able to make decision and strategy easier than before. And it’s not only about your study, but also your life. Of course we have to always realize the fact that’s we just a Hamba Allah and have no right to feel smug and arrogant.

Oh. . . i forgot to tell that developing your mindset and have a structured thoughts is not only gained from college study but also from your life experiences. So don’t worry if you don’t get a college study.

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