A GUCian's Journey

We have all passed through this stage , where you have your morals , principles tested about doing what is right and doing what should be done. It is strange really because we usually take the easy way out and do what should be done , in some situation we look at the greater good and in others we try to value which will get us in less trouble. But we miss the most important point, Principles are made to be as reference point for us like a beacon so as not to walk in the wrong direction . At the same time we cannot ignore the fact that we as human beings are emotional , we may try to bend our principles over for some emotional fact that we need to feed or for the need of the feeling that we are not just machines who abide by certain rules. I believe that sometimes most of us bend or break their principle at least once or twice during their life time for the above two reasons. It is not a shame in-fact that's what makes us humans, but the most important questions is How far are yo

I was sitting in my room Managing the Newcomers 31- GUC Facebook group when I saw a post that grasped my full attention , you see I was trying for the past two weeks to establish something like a student book with the aid of insider and some GUC friends so that whenever a newcomer enter the GUC he would just surf the book and all the information is there , but then I saw this post on the group " The GUC Student Hand Book by Takeoffapps ". Someone has actually made it , someone put an effort and created finally a student handbook for the university and it even gets better ; the moment you open the link you see the effort of the three brilliant talented founders of Takeoffapps , they included almost every aspect about the GUC from terminology to GUC goes Berlin which was established only 1 year ago and has been since a great attraction to the newcomers before the enrolled the students. For almost two months I have been trying with the aid of every student in the GUC to answe

The reason behind banning politics in the GUC or any other university is quite simple and don't need a genius to figure it out, Politics bring problems due to the face that the students will take side in terms of political groups which will lead to demonstrations like for some political groups against others like what is happening now exactly leading to the disturbing of the academic life and more over hatred and aggression possibility between students from opposing political group which could and will lead to undoubted confrontation between both parties and will lead to violence at the end that may hurt some students physically and maybe worse. The whole idea is that the universities are the places for learning and research and the participation and creation of social , academic activities in all it's categorize but not politics . Those activities build the character and personality of the student over the course of his study at the university and if some students have a po

Be monasbet en fadel kam youm 3al gam3a..shabab please read this post till the end pleaaase   ... Mn delwa2ty kda, get ready nafseyan le 7ayah mo5talefa 3n el high school life tamaman.. - 3ady lw la2eet nafsak msh 3aref tezaker ezzay aw meneen. 3ady ennak te7es ennak tayeh, da tabee3y gdnn..matet5addesh. bs msh 3ady ennak tela2y nafsak msh 3arf te3mel eh fa tekabbar demaghak w tebee3 el leela kollaha dah msh 3ady.  -hat2abel nas mn madares tanya, mn aqaleem tanya, mn dewal tanya 7atta. El diversity fel college life kebeera gdn..Be social !!..et3amel m3 da w da w fe nfs el wa2t 7afez 3la ur lifestyle elly shayef nafsak feeh. - Ebda2 7ayatak fel gam3a bel tare2a elly enta shayef feha nafsak..ya3ny eh, ya3ny momken ta5od nasaye7 mn l nas hatzaker ezay w te3mel gadwal ezay and so, bs fel a5er brdo enta aktar wa7ed 3aref a7san taree2a lel mozakra ezay. hatesma3 fel beet ed5ol major kaza 3ashan teb2a kaza aw 3ashan fe shoghl keteer fe kaza, bs fel a5er brdo 3omrak ma hateb2a gamed gher

College is all about building your personality and enhancing your character and be able to gain real life experiences but how can you manage your time effectively in it to gain the most benefit?!!. In the last two articles we mentioned some time management points, now there is an important point that needs to be addressed. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES or ACTIVE WORKING GROUPS (AWG). This topic is really important for every student in every faculty in every field . Participating in social activity or in any AWG that interest you is really important for almost all students, and the reason for that is the fact that you gain access to interaction with people from different point of views and gain real life experience. If we took the MUN activity at the GUC for example, it is one of the prestigious activities that are held every year and give the student more chance to research into global politics and to understand how the world is moving around him and to be able to make decisions based on the in

Long ago since the university have been established  students have suffered from problems academically and socially including the organization of events and arranging it with university administrations and students seek along road to solve these problems and somehow be able to reach their objectives plus academic problems related to courses  The most important aspect is the academic problems lying in unorganized course In a way in which their is no linkage between the lecture and the tutorial that the professor is explaining something  and that the TA. Is explaining something else . Also the problem of having unskilled TAs in a course in which students suffer from attending with him/her so he or she end up attending with the best TA in the course and suffer from the attendance issue is that he or she has to attend in their own tutorial or they will get no attendance which present the fact the there is no fairness fos someudents which raises the question about the criteria of choosing t

When life strikes you hard  you don't just give up or back off , NO NO ; you hit harder and faster because it will keep knocking you down every time you get up and fight and if you are not strong enough or fast enough you are done. Most of us lack the will to continue anything we start once we see things getting muddy and hard , we try to tell ourselves we did our best and it is out of our hand and there is nothing we can do. But the thing is there is always something we can do, when you enter a problem and you hit a dead end and you find your hitting rock bottom that's when you don't quit or give up because then and only then you are being tested. You tell yourself that you worked too hard and too long for this and that you cannot just let go. "Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying." Bear Grylls

One of the most important aspect of people's life that not just waste time but can lead to many problems including psychological for girls especially and academically to both sexes is the so called "Boyfriend , Girlfriend issue" . People are becoming obsessed with this idea since the first second they enter college ," I must have a girl friend I have waited all my life to enter college and have the right to choose a girl to be my girl friend and maybe he will say I must have a girl that makes me feel good about myself and that I can share my problems with and maybe if she is good enough we can continue till marriage " and for the girl she says "well maybe I can get out of college with some cool guy that can be my charming prince and all that " well this kind of issue puts both people under a lot of stress and is not just time consuming it is a time drainage . For some high class stylish people this is nonsense but for many normal people this is true.

How to manage your time effectively in life is an important question that many people ask themselves , “ How can I manage my time “ but life is too big of a subject for this article so I am going to to answer a smaller version of this question of how to manage to your time effectively in college. Many university students have problems in managing their time effectively so that they can study , workout , hangout with friends on weekends and at the same time have a social activity in which they can participate because after all these activities are as much important as study that they participate shape your personality with a great deal. To answer such a question we need first to ask ourselves what do we usually spend our time doing. Nowadays in 2013, more than 2-4 hours a day are lost on Facebook and Twitter and other social media with nonsense to do ; and don’t get me wrong , these social networks are really important and serve many purposes in our professional and personal life sinc

Have you ever wondered as a GUC engineering student where did all the graduated classes of engineering do after graduation ??!! did they work abroad or here in Egypt? did they pursue an academic career? was it at the GUC or at another university ? , or did they work at a multinational company ?? what are the chances out there for a GUC engineering graduate? what are the courses we should take to enhance our capabilities??!!!! All these questions start in your head the moment you step into the university and apply for the Engineering Faculty. let's not be kidding ourselves , many people just don't care about anything but the fact that they can actually find a job after they graduate . This year I created a group called GUC newcomers winter 2013 for the GUC newcomers to gather and ask all the questions they need to know about the university and you know what was the most repeated question I heard or received via messages or on the group wall?! ; what are my working chances aft

I started this morning with the sound of my father waking me up because it is already 9 am , which is the irony because I usually get up at 6 am but due to the fact that I had insomnia for the last 3 days and I finally got the sense that I can sleep and have some rest it is all gone. Nevertheless when I wake up and go down to the street and see all the traffic jam and noise and pollution and people screaming and using their car horns , it feels like I was transformed from quiet nice place to a hell breaking loose environment . I never knew why people hate doing papers in Governmental or as such institutions because I was never doing any of my paper there , my family used to take care for it for me, the funny part is that now I want to be able to deal with my own a stuff and do my paper work and finish all the late papers which brings us to the funny fact that this leads me to deal with some animal minded personnel who will only finish my paper for me if I was so kind enough to pay t

          Since the downfall of the Egyptian educational system in 1980 , the system has been study to earn grades ... earn grades because only the grade you get on your certificate is the only thing that will get you a job and it will define which college you will enter and it will maybe according to some till the rise of the Private Universities meant his/her life. But we all forgot to answer the simple question that has been wandering around for the last 30 years ... what is the implication of letting this corrupt idea of studying to evolve in the educational system. what effects will it has on the students , let alone their idea of education. When someone gets used to doing something one way it is really hard to change his way , try to Quit any habit you do and see how hard it is , even if it is a bad habit. 30 years of Memorizing how the exam will come , and how to answer the question and not learning to be able to answer whatever question related to what you have studied even