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MohdAkmal bin Ahmad, 4^th year, Computer Engineering

Was a student from a religious school in Perlis, MohdAkmal bin Ahmad, spread his wing to IIUM to further his study in Engineering. He takes Computer Engineering as his major and intends to create software on his own in the next future.

Registered as IIUM student in 2004, he is now at the end of his 4 years study, and early this year, he was assigned to do his internship at UNIMAP Perlis as a software engineer in its research and development center.

There are a lot of stories and great experiences that he had experienced during the internship and due to that he has also some do and don’t advise to those who are going to do internship next time.

The place selected for him by far is the best; he said that he could have. Working and internship is two different things. Mostly, those who do internship are not getting paid. Due to that, he decide to accept UNIMAP, because it is near to his house, therefore he doesn’t need to waste money on house rent and meal.

Other than that, before he went to the internship, he had done research through journal, interviews, and Internet. This is to make sure that, he had everything’s well prepared.

He said that there are also major differences between his class and internship. Even though, the internship and the course that he takes is interrelated, but the internship offers in-depth knowledge about the things that he had studied. Internship also is beneficial for his study because its help him understand more on the subject.

At the end of his internship, he is able to complete one project and surprisingly, his project was awarded Silver Award by his supervisor. He is really happy with it and also recommends UNIMAP as one of the option for the student to think when choosing place to do internship. The pay is not much, but the experience and knowledge is priceless.