Getting Acquainted with University Life

Changing from a school student to a new student at a university is sometimes a special worry for students. Changes in educational pressures and patterns, associations, and changes from home to boarding-house life also impact one’s psychology and lifestyle. An introduction to campus life is needed to adapt to academic culture more easily for new students.

Several introductions to student life were carried out in the context of welcoming new International Program of Communication (IPC) students at the Indonesian Islamic University (UII) at the UII FPSB Building. The welcoming of new students, held on Monday, October 10, 2022, was welcomed by Ida Nuraini Dewi Kodrat Ningsih, Secretary of the IPC, Masduki (UII Communication Lecturer), and Herman Felani (UII Communication Lecturer). In welcoming students entitled “Creative and Adaptive Youth,” Herman provided a briefing on how to adapt to life as a student.

This is done to equip new students so they can face various changes in life at the university. In welcoming new IPC UII students, Herman Felani gave an overview of student life. In his introduction to the world of students, he described student life in several countries.

In welcoming students, Herman gave an overview of student life in various countries. In most of America and Canada, student life is characterized by stressful conditions with academic assignments. Whereas in other countries, apart from being stressed with academic assignments, students are also faced with the problem of managing time, setting time and life priorities, and paying attention to their academic studies. Meanwhile, other countries such as Arabia, Russia, Sweden, Australia, Korea, and others face many problems, such as learning motivation, communication, college concepts, social and social environment, and self-development.

With various descriptions of these problems, Herman tries to give some advice so that in the future, these new students have time management, financial management, activity priority scale, time frame, and long and short-term targets, as well as maintained mental health. “Take care of your mental health. While doing well at university is important, it’s also okay to prioritize your mental health,” said Herman.