related to SBE UISC.
It is kind of weird to see the
recruitment of SBE Deputy and staff this recent days on @sbeuisc as i never
remembered to discuss about that with my board member. Then i remember that it
is not up to me anymore. My time as the president of SBE UISC is up. And for
what it worth, it was worthwile.
In all honesty it was never my
plan to become the president of SBE UISC. I had this certain event that i
wanted to organize since i learnt how to organize. Kind of you don’t say
statement since SBE UISC was not even existed until my sophomore year. How can
you plan for something that not yet existed? But despite the establishment of
SBE, my response was lukewarm. Sure SBE, a core-competency-based community was
a welcoming presence in oil&gas-heavy specialization of Chemical
engineering Department something that i never gave a sniff about. It gave an
access of knowledge and information that would be beneficial. But never in my
faintest dream i would be involved this much.
I was approached by Ka Pijar, a
senior i knew only by the name back then, a senior that grew into one of the
people i respect the most in school, to become the vice-president for the
newly-assembled board. I wasn’t sure why of all people it was me that asked to
take the responsibility as great as vice-president. Guess the lack of human
resources which had no shame to hold such position with the exception of myself
:p After explained and inquired that my one big goal was still that particular
comittee and i would be understood to allocate some of my time to prepare for
it in the middle of the tenure, which was given by ka Pijar, i was agree to be
the vice-president.
And so it went. The small team of
SBE Board of Director 2012, team that consisted of 10 people: Ka pijar, myself,
bagas, ka ipi, ka asa, dinda, bundo, asep, felita, and nissa. We were the first
board who had full tenure of SBE UISC stewardship. We had no idea which way to
go. Any obstacle, any hardship, in all of our inexperience we figured it out with
the guidance of the SBE founders. Being a member of that small team, in a
position which had no definite job description allowed me to oversaw things that
gave me perspectives. The perspective of each division obstacles, of
member-community relationship, of legal view and leverage we had as community,
of the goal and vision of this community, of weakness and uncertainty as a new
organization. And in my responsibility as the vice-president i could, i needed
to be able to make decision whenever the more senior board member unavailable
due to their more demanding academical obligation. But once again thats more
because my undefined job description so i had more free time than other board
members :p.
Then the unexpected, SBE grew on
me.