Zia's World

Jakarta, February 19, 1982, I was born as the first child of my parents. My father is a native Betawi people and my mother comes from Central Java. My parents gave me the name of Siti Fauziah which means land of pride. Besides, they gave me also beloved name "DETI" which comes from the abbreviation of my parents name "Dede" and "Titik" (see: The history of my name). In 1985, when I was 4 years old, my parents brought me to Surabaya.

My education began directly after me and my parents moved to Surabaya in 1985. I got a complete education here, started from kindergarten up to university. I started my kindergarten at the age of 4 years old. In 1998, I graduated from a private Kindergarten in Surabaya. Then I went to other private elementary school. I studied there for 3 years. In 1995, I continued my education to junior high school also for 3 years and graduated in 1997. In 1997, I continued to a private senior high school. And 3 years later, in 2000, I graduated from a private Senior High School in Surabaya.

As a child, I was active and dynamic, funny, beautiful, smart in dancing and singing, I like to wear traditional clothes when carnival. I made relationship with everyone in my school and even I have some best friends. In the school, I have well enough academic performance. I almost included in the best 10 in my class. I always passed the class and passed the school examination. Many activities I have followed, started from painting, Indonesian Scouts (Pramuka), dance, piano courses, and many types of youth association. I've been a champion of drawing and writing reviews competition. In junior high school, I have been trusted by my friends to be a class representative.

The 1st dream:
"I want to be a student of Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) Surabaya in the year 2000 directly after my graduation from senior high school."

This desire came up after I had heard about state college entrance examination from my friends discussion in senior high school. Actually, in the beginning, I never had a plan to study in ITS. My plan after I had graduated from senior high school was very simple, to study in private university and take economy or English language as my choice. But suddenly, I had very strong desire to change my plan and realize my dream.
In that time, to be accepted in ITS as student, I had to pass state college entrance examination. This examination is held simultaneously by state universities in Indonesia. The participant could choose in which state university in Indonesia they wanted to study. All of participant, if they had been accepted, would payed the cost of study very low than in private university. And the last was whatever program study is chosen, the cost was same.
Why I wanted to be a student of ITS? ITS as state university has good image as high quality education in my city. Even the quality is good, I would pay less than in private university, one important reason as a background of my dream.

Then the big problem came up before the examination
My score result from graduating examination in senior high school was very bad. My average score was 5 from 5 lessons. The total of my score was only 37. It's really bad score. This problem had opportunity to make me down, but I was still try to focus on how I can be accepted in ITS. Then I decided to take apart in an intensive course to pass the entrance examination. Two months I have studied hard. I chose Environmental Engineering as my program study. In the test day, for two days, I mobilized all of my ability to answer the questions.

Miracle is happened
Monday, August 7, 2000 at 00.00 pm, the announcement of the entrance examination announced simultaneously in many newspaper and website http://www.cs.ui.ac.id/umptn00. From 471.411 the participant of the examination, around 73.798 (15.6%) participants were accepted in 45 state university in Indonesia, and I was one of them who was accepted in my dream university, ITS. August 31st, 2000, I officially became a student of Environmental Engineering ITS after I had followed High Education Information Program (IPT) ITS 2000/2001 for two days before.