English Faculty of UPI has a lot of qualified lecturers. One of them is Mr. Ripan Hermawan. Young man, but he has good achievement in his academic report.
He was born on October 24, 1980 in Cianjur. He is the fourth children in his family. He has one brother and 4 sisters. His parent worked in Fishery department. When he was child, he was a naughty boy. He spent his childhood in his hometown, until he was in senior high school.
He studied in Pasir Ayam Elementary school. And then he continued in junior high school 2 in Cianjur. His senior High School was in 1 Senior High School in the same city, graduated in 1999. He took the first UMPTN but he failed.
The terrible thing happened, his lovely mother passed away in 1999. He was desperate at that time. But he wanted to prove to his mother that he could make his mother proud of him. He comes from an adequate family, so it gives him motivation to study hard.
Mr. Ripan’s ambition which never has changed is to pursue knowledge as far as he can. His motto is “make knowledge as your food”. So, he tried again for the second UMPTN. He succeeds to accept in UPI, particularly in Non-Education English Department. His first target entering the campus was being cum laude. His financial condition made him study so hard, but his IPK used to decrease because there was no opponent in his class. In 2004, he graduated from Indonesia University of Education. The Graduation ceremony was the most memorable moment in his life because he got Cum Laude title.
He was ambitious and he loved challenge. He thinks that a challenge is energy for him.He got married with Dian Hartati. He had 2 children but both of them were died.
They always move from one place to another, because they had not a permanent residence. He once became an Editor in Grafindo Publiher. Actually, he wasn’t interested on education but he tried to be a lecturer. So he found the way how to teach. Now, he is one of the lecturers in English Department in Indonesia University of Education.
He wants to continue his Master degree. He wants to take Clinical Linguistic. He applied to get a scholarship from USA but he was failed because his application was not complete. He is going to take his Master Degree in Australia or in England.
Mr. Ripan’s life was inspired by Prophet Muhammad and Ferdinand Porsche. He thought both of them had a similar character. In his opinion, Ferdinand Porsche had original ideas even thought his environment didn’t give him many facilities. He is also ispired by Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X because his idol had leadership and high morality although he is very famous, he isn’t arrogant person.
Mr. Ripan loved reading. His favorite books were book about how to develop youth generation and Can Asians Think?
Mr.Ripan wanted to continue his study to S2 and S3, get Nobel, and go to Mecca. Mr. Ripan said that the most important person in his life was his self. He got an opinion that from someone’s self, there would be love and care to someone else.
Mr. Ripan gave us several tips, “Don’t be shy asking anyone else, bring your dictionary everywhere, and keep fighting!”