Tiếng Việt
If you have to use 5 adjectives to describe your feelings about the university, what would you say? This’s my answer: Pretty, surprise, excited, passionate and regretful. It sounds too contradictory. But isn’t it.
Pretty! Our school is beautiful. With a countryside girl like me, this is the biggest and the most beautiful school I’ve ever seen since I came to Saigon. To be honest, I took almost 1 hour go around the school on the first day. Although IUH is not the No.1 school in Vietnam but it is the top 10 school about the quality of facilities and education in Vietnam. Thinking about it, I was also proud because I was lucky to head at IUH
But there was a bit of surprise, I was surprised in my first year of university entrance. a new environment, with the new friends, completely unfamiliar knowledge. It makes me feel a bit out of place, nervous and pressure. But it is also the motivation for me to starting specific plans to try and integrate with this place.
As a freshman, I started to feel more interested in IUH. Perhaps the other side of a new environment is curiosity and novelty, so I also tried to catch a better pace, integrate faster, and absorb knowledge more effectively. It is all thanks to the teachers’ closeness and ingenious non-rigid communication. And especially, I started to discover many potential possibilities of myself that I didn’t know before, so I wanted to spend more time studying because I didn’t know before. What about this whole new knowledge.
I feel fortunate to have chosen the right field with my ability and meet enthusiastic and talented teachers, leading students who are as vague as like me into the right way with my abilities, take me out of the safe zone, to the international environment to collide and sharpen my ability. Especially enlighten me about what’s the start-ups, and good people are people who know how to lift others on their wings.
Specifically, the Hult Prize Asia Regional 2019. I was selected as one of the four representatives of the school who proposed and implemented a Hult Prize 2019 start-up project. The feeling of being both happy and afraid, I don’t know should I accept or not. Because this is a good chance for me to try the international environment, but it is also a big pressure for me. Finally, I’m agreed and did not regret that decision, and I felt grateful to the teachers for believing and supporting me so much, help I could achieve the best results in the competition.
After 4 months of focusing on projects, what I learned from the competition is difficult to say. What I like most is the entrepreneurial thinking and spirit learning from friends and teachers. It helps me a lot in work and study
I think any environment will be two-sided, negative and positive. If we cannot change the problem, just look at the positive side to try and develop yourself to love more than where we live and study. Please let yourself be used by society, to be dedicated, so that after you leave school. You don’t have to say the if it is, I feel sorry for myself a bit, but it also makes me think a lot because I did not try harder, learn and try sooner. We don’t need to be better than others. But must definitely be better than yourself yesterday and never give up.
Postscript.
I wish you luck and success.
A senior student of Business Administration Department at IUH
Chu Thi Thanh Tam