Should University Students be required to Attend Classes? The presence of internet has affected the education sector significantly. Many of universities nowadays offer online classes for their students as an option to help them study. But still they maintain the traditional system of study, which is offline classes that require students to attend classes on certain time and place. The question then begin to arise, should students be required to attend classes or the can just apply for online classes? Even though there are online classes available at a university, there are a few reasons that people still have to attend offline classes. First, offline classes teach students to be responsible of their duty. Attending classes require students to get up early in the morning and go to campus on time because if they are late, they cannot enter the class and considered as absent. This absence will be accumulated and will no doubt affect to their final grade. Classes also help students to interact with their fellow students either in a discussion or in a conversation. These kind of interactions will develop their social life and also keep them update with latest issues or news they might not know before. Last but not least, classes facilitate students to meet the professor of certain subject they learn about. Students may ask the professor about the subject and gain more understanding about it. They can have a face to face conversation which is much easier compared to using online chatting. Students can also easily get samples or additional materials from the professor. In short, the advantage of going to classes far outweigh that of online classes. Students can develop themselves in many aspects by going to classes. They can learn to be responsible, build their social interactions with friends, and gain more understanding by interacting directly with the professor.

The Role of Hard-Work in Achieving a Dream There is no success followed by merely luck. Luck only plays a slight role in a pursuit of success. Hard-work plays the most. A saying “success is consist of 99% hard-work and 1% luck” is not a fallacy. It is a motivation so you do not stop struggling and wait for luck, but to make your efforts harder. Term “success” applies differently on every people. An achievement that one person considers as a success may not be the same for others. But still, people often envy others who have achieved what they dreamed of. People commonly think that other person is more plummy so that they be more successful in life. For example, you are experiencing difficulties finding a job that fits you and you see many of your friends already got their dream job. They talk about how much they love their current job. You may begin to think how lucky they are for getting the job easily. In the end, you start being jealous. Is everybody can reach their success? Yes, they can. It is really possible. But to note that every person has different pathway to achieve what each of them considers as a success. As I mentioned above, success applies differently on each person, so that the way to make it is also different. There is no need to envy others’ success. The important thing to reach your own success is work hard on your dream. There will always be failures along the way. There will be a lot of challenges you have to face. But instead of blaming yourself by being misfortune, it is better to learn from the past and figure out what made you fail. How hard will you devote yourself to achieve what you are really dreaming of?

What would you change about your hometown? Yogyakarta has only few kind of public transportation that only cover certain areas. It become a barrier for many people, especially for people who are living in the interior of the city and not owning any private vehicles, and tourists. It is also cause traffic jam around the city. Public transportation is really important for people who are not owning any vehicles. It is usual that each member of a family in Yogyakarta has a private vehicle so that each of them can easily running their daily activities, such as going to school or going to office. But how about other families that can not afford to provide private transportation for their member? it will be a burden for them because they can not go anywhere Traffic jam is also a result from lack of public transportation in Yogyakarta. If you drive along the main roads, particularly on weekends or public holidays, you will be faced with traffic jams. There are traffic jams all around the city. It is by all odds caused by the abundance ownership of private transportation. Suppose a family has five members with each of them owns a car. There will be five cars in a house. If there are five families then there will be twenty-five cars. A decent public transportation in the city can be a solution to reduce traffic jams. If there is proper public transportation system available throughout the city, the family would think that using car will cost more money and rethink about decision for each member to have a car. There may be only one car for every family and five cars for five families. This will definitely contribute to reduce the traffic jams. Improvement of public transportation is essential in Yogyakarta as the city is one of tourist destinations in Indonesia. Tourists visiting Yogyakarta surely will face difficulties going around the city because there are not many options in transportation. They have to take a taxi, especially to reach areas that are not covered by public transportation. It will cost much money.

Should A Factory Be Built In Your Community? I do not think it is a good idea that a factory be built in our community. There will be much more disadvantages than advantages to be brought to our community. The reasons of my strong oppose are listed as follows. The foremost reason is that a factory is indubitable one sources of pollution to the environment. Pollution produced by a large factory will contaminate its vicinity. It is hateful to imagine that the bright blue coloured sky over my head may change into dark grey because of the factory’s fume. Even though present technology enable factories to minimize their pollution, they still by all odds contribute to the damage of the environment. Also, the community will be totally removed of hush since the non-stopping factory’s giant machines make so much noise. It is going to be a non-stop disturbance to the community and affect many of our people, such as elderly or infants who need much time to rest. Another immediate problem is there will be many heavy-machine vehicles pass through our community during or after the construction of the factory which can cause damage to the road. It would disadvantage many people around that use the public facility for their daily activities. All of those are the disadvantages a new build factory may lead to. I find the disadvantages weigh more heavier than the advantages. A factory in our community will affect the environment, disturb the population, and cause serious damage to the public facility such as road.

Are Books More Important Than Experience? When I was in elementary school, my teachers always told me to read as many books so I could gain knowledge as much as possible. But as I grew older, I found that not only books that could give me knowledge, but also experience. If I were asked which one is more important, I would rather say that experience is. Why so? Experience challenge us to face real problems in life. While books already state problems in words, experience require us to identify problems ourselves, sometimes without any guidance from anyone. Problems in books only require our thinking to solve them. On the other hand, experience require our thinking, knowledge, energy, and everything of us to solve the problems. Experience teach us to cope hurdles and failure we might find in a certain situation. Experience also seem never let us to rest and force us to work harder and harder everytime. The more experience we got, the more challenge we are going to facing on. We may find something happen unexpectedly that makes our path become more complex. This can be really tiring, make us very dispirited, but we have no choice than walk through it and in the end, we can make it. We have to work hard fighting them, but in the end either we are going to win or lose, we will get more. To sum up, experience could be a great teacher for us. However, we still can not ignore the power of books in providing knowledge for us. It is essential to keep learning from books as there are many informations we can not attain from experience because of the hefty fee, such as learning about other countries culture. Not many people can afford to go to other countries in order to learn their cultures and books can be an alternatives to learn about it.

Has The Ease of Cooking Improved Life? Many people are now too busy with their work at the office and do not have any energy left to prepare food at home. The presence of technological advancements in food, such as the emergence of instant food and fast food, has helped them to prepare and get their food easily. They do not have to spend hours in the kitchen to prepare their daily meals. For those who love cooking, it might be really enjoyable, but for some who do not, it is really burdensome. They have to devote their time and energy to make one kind of food for themselves or for the family. Moreover, after cooking time has ended, they have to clean up all the utensils they have used. That will spend more time and energy. Instant food and fast food are become so helpful for some people nowadays. For instance, to cook noodles, we just have to pour hot water and wait for about 3 minutes and it is done! Really easy, isn’t it? Or they just have to stop by at the nearest fast food restaurant on their way to office and spend only about 5 minutes to get the food. Those are really simple especially for busy people who have a lot of things to do at work. But there is also disadvantage of consuming too much instant food and fast food. The preservatives contained in them can harm the body if it is consumed every day. It can caused serious illness such as cancer. Thus, people who often consume instant food or fast food due to lack of time to cook fresh food have to balance it by consuming more nutritional food, like fruits or fresh vegetables. The ease of cooking these days has improved productivity of life. When people in the old days felt it cumbersome to spend hours to cook food, now they can find it really easy to get food. On the one hand, there are positive impacts, but on the other hand, there is negative side that consuming too much instant food or fast food will harm the body.

Are Parents Best Teachers? Parents are indeed the first teachers a child ever have. Parents take care of their children from infant to adolescent. But in my opinion, without reducing my respect to all parents in the world, parents are not the best teachers for their children. Here are a couple of reasons. Parents can unconsciously passing down bad habits to their children. Sometimes children see their parents have a quarrel. They yelled, even used physical violence at each other. This can affect their children’s behavior, especially when their parents do that without considering that their children is paying attention at them. The children may copy what their parents do to other people, for example with their friends. Parents always want things happen easily to their children. Yes, parents always want their children have everything with ease, for example give everything their children want, like toys, books, etc. But sometimes it is a need to teach children a hard-work to get something. As parents work so hard to get money for their children, they can teach the children to work hard to get what they want. This does not mean that parents do not have to be responsible to their children, but parents are better to tell them that there is always a hard work to get something. To conclude, being parents is a really difficult task. Even though parents are not the best teacher a child ever had, they have to respect their parents as their parents are the only persons that commited in taking care and giving the best they can for the betterment of their children. Parents also are teachers that always stay beside their children in every situation regardless of how bad their children are. So it is a responsibility of every child to give full respect to their parents.

Why go to universities? Why people tend to encourage their children to going to university after high school regardless the high fee they have to spend for college? As far as I am concerned, here are a few reasons why people go to university. First, a degree from university seems to promise a better life in the future, especially in purpose of getting a job. Most companies nowadays seek talents that have a diploma or a bachelor degree, which can be gained through universities. A degree had by a job-seeker can be a bargaining point to get a job from a company, so it is easier for him to get his dream job at the company. Secondly, going to university can deepen knowledge of specific subject. Different from subjects in high school, which are really broad, in university people will take one subject to be learned more. For instance, if a student take a biology major, he will learn more about biology, more details than he has gotten from high school. He can also choose what specialization in biology he want to take, for example about animals or humans. Third, taking a university degree will hone capabilities to more critical in thinking. The lecturers will ask the students to do tasks, homeworks, and exams that need them to think more critical, such as analyzing datas and solving problem. So they can solve problem when facing the same kind of difficulties in real world. In conclusion, there are lot of advantages of going to university that can be reasons why parents always ask their children to pursue a degree. So that it is important to students to continue their study until university stage.