In September, 2008, most of my fellows already graduated. But I was still struggling with my thesis, and it made me worried, while my supervisor lecturer was quite busy and hard to contact with. At first I was promised I would finish my thesis in only 1 semester (6 months). But in the end of the semester, I could only finish 1 from 5 predetermined chapters. Feeling worried, on September 11, I sent an email to my supervisor lecturer, asking about how my thesis would turn out. About 2 days later, I received an unexpected reply. My supervisor told me that it was impossible to graduate within the current semester, since my thesis needed a lot of time to accomplish, regarding the importance of the questioner (I used a questioner from WHO), how long it would took to prepare the training to administrate and spread the questioner, and so on.

I was pretty upset when I read the reply. My plan to graduate within the semester would be failed, and it also seems quite impossible to graduate within next semester. Moreover, this delay wasn't caused by myself. I did not do the thesis half-hearted. After I discussed with my group, my fellows decided to have another lecturer to supervise them and started over their thesis. I was really confused at that time. I did not want to dump all of my efforts for finishing 3 chapters and started all over again. Meanwhile, if I decided to start over, I had to finish all 5 chapters in 3 months. I had not much time to make a decision, since the Id-ul-Fitr holiday was near.

Feeling confused, I discussed my situation with my parents. My father (Ev. Handoyo Salim), suggested me not to follow my fellows and keep on my current track. He urged me to pray and hand over all of my troubles to God. I really thought that the advice was not logical. I thought that whatever decision I made, I would still need more than 3 months to complete my thesis.

On September 16, I received an email from my supervisor. It was an invitation to meet him on September 19 to discuss further about my thesis. It was probably because of the pressure from the dean's assistant, since all of his supervised students but me suddenly decided to start over. This was rare. The supervisor usually very busy and hard to meet. Within the 3 days, all of my family members kept on praying for me to graduate on time.

Finally, on September 19, I met my supervisor. It was amazing! First of all, my supervisor said sorry because he was very busy and ignoring me a bit. Second, the 'hard-to-manage' questioner was replaced with a new, easier questioner. Third, if I follow his new schedule, I could graduate on time in February 2009. I was really thankful to God. He answered my prayer only in a very short time!

Last but not least, it is because of God's help that I could graduate on time and received a satisfying marks which could make my parents proud of me. Thank you Lord!