Hello, I’m Dinar Queentina Noor Azizia Rifqi. Just call me Dinar. I was born in Jepara, October 17th 2000. Currently, I’m a part of the International Class Program (ICP) student at Salatiga State Institute for Islamic Studies batch 2018. Being a part of my new family (ICP) for the last three years, I felt both so honored and thankful each day! Surrounded by many supportive and inspiring people 24/7 that shaped me to be the better version of me now!
Growing up as a girl who always has dreams and ambitions. It always makes me excited whenever I tried something new and challenging. Raised by an environment who always has high expectations of me. It all started from when I accidentally did not accepted into my (and my family) dream university and it brought me to IAIN Salatiga because I got accepted through SPAN PTKIN. At that time, I was depressed and felt worthless. I am a very target oriented person. My family, my teachers, and my friends were so disappointed of me. Even when they did not say it to me but I know they did. It takes me a while until finally I can wake up again and get used to be here. Then I decided to set up my goals and start from 0. The first target when I entered IAIN Salatiga was to be accepted in International Class Program. And I did it, alhamdulillah.
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What comes easy, won’t last long. That quote just reflects me. I used to living a life like a princess in my childhood where I could get everything that I wanted easily, where I never worried about anything in life. Moreover, I have always been treated to be a perfect kid who should has many achievements, well-behaved, and of course, feminine. However sadly it is no more. Suddenly financial and family problems came into my life and obviously it affected my life. My perfect life was gone in the blink of an eye. I was traumatized and it was hard for me to deal with this condition. But again, life must goes on.
My rollercoaster education life is one of my strength and the reason why I am here. There were no places like ICP. College is a place for expanding your mind and ICP definitely did that. The environment, the teaching learning process, the subjects, the lectures, the classmates, and the programs are just amazing. The thing is, in ICP there’s no discrimination. Everything depends on your capability, not your gender or even your family background. We support each other to reach their dreams. No matter how high it is, just go through it because if there’s a will, there’s a way. ICP is my first step when I began exploring all my career options and it made me get my first paid job as a freelance translator and social media influencer! I’m so happy! I started taking steps toward accomplishing all of my goals in ICP. I stopped waiting for my dreams to come to me and started making my way to them. After the last three years of empowerment, encouragement, and learning ways to better myself in ICP, I could not feel more ready to take on the next chapter of my life. Thank you ICP for having such a positive impact in my life!
And here I am now, a fifth semester student who can speak up for things that I know it’s wrong or it’s not supposed to be like that. I am personally very vocal about gender equality. All the discrimination that I got in the past such as, “a girl don’t need to get higher education” or “you waste your time in school while the kitchen belongs to you”, any many more, always encourage me to continue what I’ve been doing. More platforms, more audience! That is one of my dream. However, I still have another thousands bucket lists to be checked! Bismillah…
The last few things I would like write here are.. (as a reminder for myself too) Maybe I don’t have academic and non academic achievements as many as the others. Maybe I am not mastering many different languages as good as the others. And maybe I have not accepted yet in any scholarship, volunteering, and exchange programs like the others (FYI: One of my failures is I failed for the 5th times applying for exchange programs to the USA although I was the recommendation students and reached the final step at that moment). But one thing for sure is, I will not give up and I’m proud of myself for making progress everyday. The best is yet to come, do not ever lose hopes!
Dinar Queentina N. A. R.
International Class Program IAIN Salatiga Batch 2018
English Education Department
“Always stay true to yourself and be the person you wannabe!”
- The Winner of Instagram Post Contest hosted by Rumah Web in March 2021
- 1st Place at TOEFL ONLINE CLASS With CEC IAIN Salatiga x DEMA FEBI IAIN Salatiga 2021
- Featured on jatengtoday.com in January 2021
- Featured on IAIN Salatiga official Instagram account, brochures, calendar, and banners 2021
- 1st Runner Up of DUTA IAIN Salatiga 2019