Hello From 2026 a.k.a I'm Just Gonna Ramble #whoknows

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I am currently in the middle of writing my third paper for my doctoral program. As a professional procrastinator, somehow my mind wonder to this blog. And randomly, in a true procrastinating nature, I decide to write this blog instead.

I scrolled pas old posts from 2006, 2009... And cringed so hard. Man, that was embarrassing. But being embarrassed by writings from your youth is part of being alive. You had a healthy amount of experience, you wrote about in your blog. Now here you are, 16 years after it happened, squirming to your youthful stories.

Anyway. A quick catch up, as I'm sure my future self will return to this blog someday. Btw thank you Blogger for still being alive, please never take down the website.

These days I am a doctoral student in ITB, something I have never dreamed about. I dreamt about being a doctoral student, of course, but never really aimed for ITB. Praise God. 

Since I am conceited by nature, I also would like to add that my doctoral journey is a oneshot experience. Glory be to God. Got the IELTS requirement in one test. Got 7.5 score again, the requirement was 6, I believe. During an interview for the doctoral scholarship I told the interviewers I studied for a month for IELTS, and he asked me why bother studying when your last IELTS score already surpassed ITB's requirement. I was puzzled at firsts, and after gave it some thought for a few seconds, I told him that I want to ensure I still got good scores. At least I dont want my score to decrease, and the last time I took an IELTS test was 12 years prior. So of course I gotta prepared. Onether one shot thing was I only applied once for ITB, and got in. But acquired promotor's agreement as supervisor did not happened in one shot, sort of. I emailed one guy. He didn't reply for weeks. So emailed another guy, who agreed immediately. So I applied with the approval from the second guy, then i received an email that the first actually said ok to me. Buuuut that was a blessing in disguise, because the first guy turned out to be a super busy young prof who is infamously a slow-response supervisor. While the second prof, my promotor, is super nice, and super fast-response. Even after he hold an important jabatan. After acquiring a promotor, I studied my ass of for the intake test, and one-shotted the application. But my scholarship experience was not one shot. First I applied for LPDP. Got rejected. Second I applied for BPI dosen scheme. Eventually landed that one. So in hindsight: IELTS and ITB application - one shot; promotor and scholarship - two shots were fired before got what I need. 

My, I can still ramble, can't I.

Continue. I got into the doctoral program in 2023. In 2024 I wrote a paper for a month, and got that published in the same year. In 2025, I wrote a paper for approximately 6 months, and got three consecutive desk rejections, one long review process that ended up rejected as well. It's February 2026 now, and that paper is still in review process on its fifth try. While I'm waiting for the decision for that bloody paper, I have been collecting data, conduct data analysis, and here I am (putting off) writing my paper for 2026. I hope I will finished writing this current one on March. 

But I'm not gonna achieve that if I stay writing on this blog, am I? Better skedaddle then. I have missed you, blog. Thanks for being here. 


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