Okay so on my sophomore year, so in my second year of my undergraduate studies, I participated in a government program named PKM. So that program basically gave a lot of students the opportunity to conduct research on their own. So it is an independent research program. And of course I, because I am in undergraduate biomedical science degree, I was very interested back then to join in that particular program. So I joined into that program and of course I need to make a team. So I made a team compromising of five people in my class. And of course we are, then we started doing the project. So we conducted our own research proposal where I was being the principal investigator and also the project manager. So so many responsibilities need to be done by myself where I delegate the more menial, mundane task to my teammates. Everything is fine not until a month later where we have a big conflict with each other. And suddenly I feel, I felt like I don’t want to continue this research project. But anyway we need to do our responsibility well. So I still submitted the proposal to the program and I really hope that we do not win. But God actually made us win. So it was a very very hard decision for me. But yeah.
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Okay, so in my sophomore year, in my second year of my undergraduate studies, I participated in a government program named PKM. This program basically gave a lot of students the opportunity to conduct research on their own. It is an independent research program. Because I was in an undergraduate biomedical science degree, I was very interested in joining that particular program. So I joined the program and needed to form a team. I created a team consisting of five people from my class. We then started working on the project. We conducted our own research proposal, where I was the principal investigator and also the project manager. I had many responsibilities to handle myself, while I delegated the more menial, mundane tasks to my teammates. Everything was fine until a month later when we had a big conflict with each other. Suddenly, I felt like I didn't want to continue this research project. However, we needed to fulfill our responsibilities. I still submitted the proposal to the program, and I really hoped that we would not win. But, surprisingly, we actually won. It was a very hard decision for me, but I managed to push through.
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