A GUCian's Journey

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 wh...

1) The first year is the most important year , you will be studying few number of courses each semester and each course will have large number of credit hours like mathematics which weighs 8 credit hours , so You need to score a high grade in the first year and believe me when I say that the first year is the easiest so if you got a A or A+ in your first year rest assured that this will help you during your next 4 years plus if you adjusted yourself to a studying style that guarantees to you a good grade you will stick to this style for the next years in college as you will be adapted to it. 2) If you are the kind of person who studies only 2 weeks before exams , this will NOT work at the GUC and will cause you sometimes to fail some courses if you are not usually a studying person type so in order to avoid this , Please study week by week and finish what you have first , sometimes you will have deadlines that will make you postpone studying for some time and this is normal at t...