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Motivations and Expectations of Study at Electric Power Engineering KTH

This essay was made for Sustainable Electric Power Engineer assignment at KTH           Coming from Indonesia, an archipelago country with more than 17,000 islands, I see different challenges on electricity generations and distributions faced by my country. Indonesia has achieved a 98.86% electrification ratio since 2019, but regional disparities of electricity access are still happening. Many electrified regions, especially in Eastern Indonesia, have not had access to 24 hours electricity [1]; this impedes the development of other sectors such as economic, education, or health.  Therefore, I am motivated to pursue a career in the energy sector to take part in improving the life quality of many Indonesian citizens by providing more reliable energy access for society. By studying in the Electric Power Engineering [2] program in KTH, I wish to have a solid understanding of the electrical system, its operation and planning that will be beneficial to dev...

Procrastination

This essay was made for an assignment for Sustainable Electric Engineer Course at KTH It is a common thing that people do tasks based on their justification of urgency. I usually do that too. However, sometimes, I have a bias in the way I evaluate my priority. It doesn’t mean that I purposely delay things I have to do; I do it unconsciously, thinking this might be a priority when actually it’s less critical. After reading the “How to Beat Procrastination” article [1], I realized that practising calculated procrastination results in myself cramming before the deadline. That happens for study and other things sometimes; making a priority scale is not always accurate. Procrastination is not only putting me under stress, unsatisfactory results, it also makes me less enjoying the process of doing something due to the limited amount of time still exists.   Before I came to KTH, I had a beautiful plan to read all the materials needed before the classes and revisit them after the clas...