Malang Interfaith Community

“I would venture that in some cases tolerance is more important than freedom; it is tolerance that sets us free. It is through tolerance that we can attain genuine peace.”

President Bambang Susilo Yudhoyo

The Malang Interfaith Community (MICo) is as an affirmative action is established in Malang by some youth scholars, intended to be the media or forum for some parties (religion-based organizations) in order to promote the importance of postmodern life and build tolerance within the diverse society; especially in vast developing globalization and melting-pot area like in Malang.

This project focuses on the scholars and/or religion-based organizations at campuses in Malang and employs socio-academic approach in conducting the programs e.g. interfaith dialogue, conference, house of worship visit, etc. This project was at first established by some alumni of American sponsored program, and now more contributors are involving with this historical movement.

We are embracing the scholars to search the common ground within the diversity. Within these months, the MICo expects more contributions from society, especially from the varsity students. Please give your support and we invite you be part of this historical movement in building genuine harmony and peaceful life.


Support & reach:
Follow us on Twitter
Log on Website

Make it concise: some ideas for your college essay

When you are about to write for your college admission essay, something sticking in mind is that you will explain as detail as possible; this is true that you should write it with your personal creativity, telling the readers into a personal and original idea with impression. Yet, keep in mind that you just have 500 words at most for your essay.

Some students think they will conduct tens revisions for their final essay as they have drafted hundreds of words essay. This might be possible to write essay not to exceed the limit—or just few words to the limit! The question: why do we need to bother ourselves with this unprepared topic and essay? There are some ideas on how to write great and concise essay for your college admission.

First, know where to start for your essay. You cannot write about your vacation in Hawaii, and you start it from the time you wake up in your room. Get the points that matter most! There are many good stories; it is a matter of determining the most significant.

Your language style is very important. Just imagine when you look at someone at the very first time; you might not think about his/her hobby at first; the impression must go to the outlook! Yes, essay is just like this one. You may organize your essay as flowing as possible. Starting from impressive opening until concise explanation, just consider that the reader seems listening to your great story without any feeling of being lectured or even judged.

Mind the adjectives! It is very important to choose the precise adjective for your writing in order to explain the object you are talking about. But somehow many students put overuse adjectives just to talk about a thing; too many words count may be traced back to an overuse of word forms that often muck things up. This case is also applied for the qualifiers and adverbs. The point is the diction for these elements is very important to make your writing more witty and concise.

The last thing is your sentence structure. Don’t make people reading your essay confused with strange sentence structure! Try to make standard structure for your sentences. Take the ideal sentence structure is started by subject and predicate. Just as simple as that! The next thing related to the sentence structure is the grammatical aspect; this is the time for you to spend some moment to examine your grammatical aspect.

Keep those simple things when you think you are ready to start writing your essay. Revision for your words count is also important; but you just need to keep the ideas above in mind to avoid redundancy in revision and fear of overuse of words for your essay. Good luck!

Finding a topic for your college admission

As the college admission requires the candidates to write about 500-flawless-word essay, and then you should have smart strategy in order to make it the best. One of some considerations before getting started to write your essay is by determining the right topic for your essay; keep in mind that you must write it under your very personal circumstances, and also your study objective to get the college admission.

There are a lot of strange theories about what constitutes a good topic. For some students, they believe that the topic should be “sweet” one; but for me, it does not matter how sweet your topic is, it is your strategy in finding the topic and you can deliver it properly for your admission.

You may start observing something unique around you; essay topic need not to be the serious one. Again, this is your personal circumstances how to employ it. Some people claim that personal topic such as pets, grandpa, family are ridiculous ones; this is not right assumption. To help you find the proper topic for your essay, here are some steps that you may follow to empower your self-reflection in order to make great essay.  

Understand the parameters of the assignment. The main purpose of your essay is to connect you to the person who is reading it. In order to make such a connection, you’ll want to tell a compelling story that shows you as an authentic and caring human being. If you can make it, you will have great shot!

Know your limit. You just have short essay; you cannot find the bid theme or topic for your college admission essay. You may start from your personal experience in class or teaching and learning, small case study that you intend to know and understand and get involved in, and so forth. That might be a good topic, showing you as a person who is open to learning from others. Through that focusing-down process, potential topics should start to appear and take shape.

Ask yourself. Utilize yourself as the object and subject of observation in finding the personality, the topic, and the correlation between the two. The point is on how you can employ the topic into your personal perception and you can make it by having good delivery; start asking some questions to help you boosting your idea and your other side of personality—those are waiting for being written.

Keep in mind: Everyone has a story to tell. It’s just a matter of discovering that story.

The Global Challenges

Not all people realize who the current Pulitzer winning writer is. He is Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thomas L. Friedman has been talking about foreign policy for two decades. Over the past couple of years, though, Thomas L. Friedman started to notice something different about their conversations.

Talking about the global issues especially the government policies, I can learn some important points related to the upcoming challenges. The youngsters, the generation that will face the challenges. Most of the challenges are as result of the global development and also international policies.

Friedman urges to us about the global challenges; the global development, the government policies are always and will always be correlated to the three essential aspects: the pattern of the energy consumption in America, our chronic deficit, globalization and the revolution in information technology.

These crucial and significant challenges will occur for the next generation of this nation. Why does Thomas L. Friedman warn the youth about these crucial issues? He believes that today’s youth generation is in the messing time. They never consider about the upcoming challenges that may devastate today’s paramount development occurring in America. The facts about the challenges are real even since today. The money is worthless, it is not easy to get job, and also the competition is harder and tougher.

The point of the messages from Thomas L. Friedman to the young generation is not just cliché. Those are real and that is why Thomas L. Friedman concludes that young people must be able to invent the new job rather than seeking for jobs. Innovation is a must.

College is not all about full-tuition

What do you think if you hear full tuition at college? Most students will say the same thing that full tuition at college means that you commit a suicide for your money. Is that severe the financial condition at college?

Yes, the common sense will say that attending college school without financial aid is terrible and completely expensive. But, you should not be dragged out by the public/common sense that there are not any opportunities for you attending college through the back up of financial aids.

The fact is different as we can see huge number of financial aids are available from various sponsors. You can apply for those ones and also get the lower price for your college tuition. The latest statistic by an economist of University of Columbia shows that only one-third of the college students pay full tuition. Here are some analyses from the study.

The most significant factor that contributes the financial problem for the college students is the financial aids. Most of the students at universities in the United States are receiving the financial aids from government grants or other scholarships. The increase number of the financial grants for the students is up to 40 percent since 2005, and also the availability of the tax-based aid that is up to 78 percent. As the result is that most of the students at the undergraduate level receive the financial aid with total averagely $6,500 annually in grant aid and nearly $1,000 in tax-based aid to help defray tuition and fees. 

The financial aids are available for most of the college level education in most of countries across the world. The easiness in getting the scholarships should be considered that this depends on the student’s competence to get the financial aids; but, the aids are available with enough amounts for the students.

At the last, however, we should remember that the highest spending for the college students is not for the full tuition at the college. This is for the living expenses. This is not supposed to be considered as the university policy; this is the real life when everybody needs to eat.

Considering before applying for college

Have you applied for college? What are things you consider before applying for college? This is the moment for the students to apply for college and also the great time for them to start their career. You should consider some aspects before applying for college.

This is information that those who are at the beginning of their undergraduate studies should pay close attention to when considering their choice of major. Here are some instructions about things you should consider for your college applications.

First question is before applying for college or major is that consider the nature of the college you are about to apply. This should be considered like the factor of financial aspects, the facilities and also what college had is also the consideration. You should also consider the facts about how you apply for the college? Are you applying by yourself or the other person asked to do so; this self-esteem and also the initiative are also very important.

You should do comparisons and also the researches about the similar major from some universities. The next thing is the alumni and also the network from the universities. You also consider the opportunity to get the financial aids from your university and also get some free things at campus. This will help you to boost yourself in having your study.

Above all, you should know what your core to the major you are about to apply. This is also the consideration on how you will develop yourself during your study. And, the most important thing you should consider before applying for college the opportunity to start your career after your graduation. You should mind the opportunity. Some majors like nursing and medical aspects will give you wider opportunity. For the business schools have millions of graduates in every year.

Get your travel insurance!

You will never imagine something bad happening to you while you are enjoying your travel. You should have your insurance during your travel; and your ordinary insurance will not be applied during your travel. Travel insurance is the solution to get you enjoy with optimum joy. Travel insurance is intended to cover medical expenses, financial default of travel suppliers, and other losses incurred while traveling, either within one's own country, or internationally.

Temporary travel insurance can usually be arranged at the time of the booking of a trip to cover exactly the duration of that trip. Before you buying your travel insurances, make sure you know the procedures to process that. Here are some reviews for you!

You should be aware that the minimum balance for your travel insurance should be able to cover your medical, luggage, and also the cancelation to travel trips. First you should declare any information that could lead to a travel insurance claim, especially any pre-existing medical conditions affecting you or someone else on whom your travel may depend.

You should also check your home insurance. This means that if you have your insurance for your home, including the personal belongings, you do not have to sign up for the luggage insurance for your travel. This may save thousands dollars for your travel. Your personal belongings should be covered by your home insurance already.

The easiest and safest way to process your travel insurance is by to buy your travel insurance through travel agents. Through licensed travel agents, you may also consult with them about the proper travel insurances and also how to keep the optimum benefits from the insurance. The cost for your travel insurance is very expensive while you need to be aware that the unused money can be claimed back after your vacation. Have a nice travel with safe and optimum protection!