Surounding of the hostel in the UMS

Well as students can see that in the UMS there are hostel namely Kolej AB, Kolej CD, Kolej E, Kolej Indah Permai and Kolej Kingfisher. Kolej AB,CD and E is located in the UMS campus. While the other two Kolej IP and Kingfisher is located outside of the campus of UMS.

For the hostel inside the UMS, several facilities provided such as the main hall, cafeteria and cyber cafe for the student convenient. Most of the time the students use these facilities quite often either to surf internet, printing, games or dine.

PC Fair at the Chancellor Hall

There was a PC Fair at the Chancellor Hall on the 27-29July 2009. The event was held to sell computer hardware and software to the UMS students. There was also a video game competitions to participate. The game was Dota.

The Facilities in the library

the megalab can accommodate about 500 student using the internet access

at the Megalab for student to use their Internet service

This is the facility at the library at University Malaysia Sabah. The ground floor is the Megalab, counter for asking any question and non science reference books. While the second floor houses the science reference books and newspaper, journal and also article.

This facilities operate from 8am until 10.30 in the weekdays. While the weekend it open from 8am until 6pm only. On Sunday the library close to public. The process of borrowing a book require a little bit of knowledge on how to borrow book using a machine to make student life easier.

Meeting with the senior of hotel managment student

junior student finding their senior facilitator to get their signature

the committee member doing their task

As normal the meeting starts at 8am in the morning on the 24July 09 at the hotel lab at School of Business and Economics. But the occasion only starts at 9am or 9.30am. The occasion starts with a speech by the head coordinator Madam Izyanti and several lecturer like Sir Yuzainy and Mr Kamisan.

Later the MC introduce the committee member of Hotel Management club to the new student. Such a large number of student taking hotel management. About 70students. Only 10 are male students while the rest is female student. There are also international student from
China.

The lecture place in UMS

tutorial class at the school of business and economics

at the lecture hall with plenty of sit

Dewan Kuliah Utama

Quite different from Polytechnic Perlis or now call Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (PTSS )
Big classroom and big hall for lecture while tutorial there have smaller class at each School in the University.

Imagine the hall can accommodate at least 300 to 500 student in one time. There are some people sleeping at the back of the lecture hall. The air condition sometimes make the students sleep in the hall.

While for the tutorial class it can only accommodate about 30 to 40 students only. It is quite small the room for tutorial class rather than the lecture hall.

System use in the university

Quite a tough thing especially when now days everyone need to know knowledge about using the computer and the internet to able to search their research and also register student registration subject for their school syllabus or university subject.

Initially it is quite tough because too many people were using the system and it hang sometimes until several attempt are made. Most of the learning material for the subject is post online using the Learning Management System or call (LMS) use by the lecturer to post their notes, notice etc.

Student need to check all the time to make sure that they receive their notes or notice earlier to prevent problem in the future.

Days after orientation

UMS Bus for transport student to lecture class or anywhere in the campus area

D Bayu Cafe at the Dewan Kuliah Pusat (DKP)

Quite tough for student who not good at arrange their timetable. But you can said that many people have class from morning until night. Only one thing is that the food during night time only sell bread or snack only. What a waste for the student need to go to another cafe at the library to take their dinner.

A little bit view of University Malaysia Sabah

at the admin building while paying license for electrical item

from the top hill at the admin building

Imagine the admin building on the hill top. It takes about 220steps of stairs to reach to the top. The admin building is consider the highest building on the hill slope. The admin building is build into a two tower where u can see it just like the Petronas Twin Tower in Kuala Lumpur. The admin building is facing the Mount Kinabalu as u can see from the bridge tower.

A week after orientation at ums

Nothing less than the usual orientation for new student intake for jul session 2009. Most of the activities involved are briefing about the university, university rules, hostel rules, school , subject required to take and also curriculum.

Not only that briefing for library also had on the list. Most of the time new student are required to take their place at the Chancelor Hall from morning until midnight. During the morning session student are required to walk from their hostel to the Chancelor Hall. While on the night time they have the oppournity to ride on the UMS bas back to thier hostel or walk back. There are 24 bus total.

But we need to wait for the next bus to fetch us to the hostel. Imagine the bust full with student until they need to stand. For the last day we had some interesting show to watch by the 1th sem student from School of Arts. They are performing a show and dance showing the sabahan culture and language to new student coming from Peninsular Malaysia.

Life in the university

Many student were shock after they just finish their study in sh coll when they take their STPM.
Nothing more, nothing less to say about student who just study in school to pass their exam and make their grade only. Today challenge is quite tough for student who want to excel well to get their scroll. It is not very easy at the beginning.

Each of the student must be able to make out of it while in the university to make it clear nothing is easy to study in the university rather in school. The second part is english language is widely used while in the university and also for research study either graduate are taking their diploma, degree, master or phd. A lot of research need to be done.

Work smart, work hard, divide time properly, group study, ask the lecturer etc to further improve your knowledge in this challenging time after they graduate from university.