Our Journey Starts Here!

Bismillah.

All praises be to Allah for giving three of us the chance to get enrolled into this beautiful university and to pursue our studies to a higher level. At this very moment, there are a lot of other youths around the globe that actually loves knowledge, but somehow don't have the opportunity to pursue their studies because of many kinds of obstacles. Again, all praises is due to Him.

Name	Programme	Matric number

Hazwani Humaira	Applied Plant Science	1417860
Siti Nabila	Marine Science	1410274
Nor Saffana	Applied Plant Science	1416558

Today marks the 16th day of us being the IIUM student. It all started on the 2nd of September, the day when we officially enroll as a student here and by default, our Taaruf Week programme started. Taaruf week was good, eventhough it was a really tiring week but the eagerness inside ourselves to get to know things about this university was above that. The campus is so huge, no wonder we got so tired of walking from one destination to another. However, the landscape of this campus is just stunningly beautiful! Take a look down here...

Maingate IIUM Kuantan Campus

Masjid Sultan Ahmad Shah

 

Office of Campus Director

Library

Kuliyyah of Sciences

Overview of Juliyyah of Sciences

Kuliyyah of Medicine

Swimming pool at sports complex

New mahallah

We have six Kulliyyah here, and three of us are destined to be in the Kulliyyah of Science, the biggest 'family' in IIUM. It is located as the most distant Kulliyyah from our Mahallah that we really rushed in the morning to not miss the bus. But, sometimes we have to walk for 15 minutes under the hot blazing sun to reach here, or other places like One Stop Student Centre and the library. But we believe that it is one of our 'jihad' and challenge to walk to class, we even can get rewards from Allah in every footstep that we take if we are sincere and guard our tongues from complaining. 

Kuantan is actually a nice city. A lot of shopping malls and hotspots for cheap stuffs can be found here. The day before our class starts, some of our seniors took us out around the city with their cars. Yes, you get me, the seniors here are so cool and helpful. We got to know the routes to UTC, East Coast Mall, Jungle (the heaven of food) and much much more. The very next week, we have been a bit independent that we rented a car and hit the road of Kuantan! Here is some sneak peak of Kuantan....

East Coast Mall Kuantan

Teluk Cempedak

UTC Kuantan

Jungle Food Court

Our lecturers and seniors always remind us to be an active and all rounder student. They really encourage us to join clubs and societies here so that we will improve our soft skills. The abundance of knowledge programmes here makes the university more lively and merrier. This proves that the university is putting in enormous effort towards realizing the triple ICE slogan - Islamization, Integration, Internationalization and Comprehensive Excellence - a very beautiful mission it is. I wonder if I could enjoy all this in other universities.

We are aware that our first niyyah (intention) when we put in our first step in this university is extremely important. There is a words of wisdom saying, you will give up in the middle of the journey if you start on the wrong starting point. We also realize that the responsiblity of being a muslim student is to do our best in whatever field that we endeavour, so that we are able to contribute to this ummah. We are highly motivated with the saying of the Prophet (pbuh) , the best of you is the one who benefits others. Lecturers keep reminding us of the importance to score in our first two years here in order to go through the third and fourth year smoothly inshaAllah, and beyond that this is an amanah towards the knowledge itself. 

As of today, we are starting to get busy with our studies, and currently doing the Computer in Science assignment in this comfortable Orchid Lab, conducted by our motherly, kind and beautiful lecturer, Dr Noraslinda. Wait for our next update on this blog. Stay tuned!

p/s : You can get more info about IIUM Kuantan Campus through this link CLICK HERE