Yesterday was April fools’ day and I had a written exam in Trend Micro for OJT yesterday too. I was thinking, was it a prank? After all it was April fools’ day yesterday. I arrived there exactly 1:30 PM by Taxi from Cubao and I was truly regretful; I didn’t commute earlier that I had to ride a taxi to get there on time. Then I went inside the conference room converted to an exam room. There were 14 of us waiting to get the exam. It’s okay to wait as long as there are seats to relax while waiting, but I was standing! There were 11 seats only and I’m one of the unfortunate ones who didn’t get a seat. Not until 2:30 PM that the examiner went inside the room and gave us the exam papers. I thought it was an endurance test until 6:00 PM. Whoever lasts waiting for the examiner gets the OJT. Of course it’s impossible unless the HR is playing pranks with us which is not true after all. I finished the exam and I left the building… and I’m hoping that I’ll get an email soon. ^_^
Majority of my friends in UP tells me that problematic professor reflects a problematic grade. The reality struck me and now I know how true it is. It’s not that you can pass with flying colors because you are good in that subject; actually you’ll pass because of your professor no matter what circumstances there is. He decides if you’ll pass or not. Who cares if you’re the top in class. If you pissed him of, you’re done. What more if your class pushed him to the limit. He might consider failing the entire class. And what if your professor is just plain retarded…. who knows what will happen.
I viewed my grades an hour ago. Great, I didn’t expect that my grade in Java is quite high. It could have been higher if I had more time to study but I think I slacked more than I studied. I practically didn’t do well in most quizzes. Actually I didn’t study at all. I just read. I’m just interested in GUI design and most of the codes I learned was forgotten during exams. Thesis proposal just made the situation worse because my group’s thesis is focused on .NET, so I had less time learning Java. I’m just glad I enjoyed programming our final machine problem. I managed to get all the required features without much help. I just refered to Java API and I have eliminated all the bugs that I have encountered in the program. I’m glad that my grade in Java 2 is higher than my grade in Java 1. Cisco is a different story. I’m just glad that I didn’t hit the lowest grade I was expecting. I have a very low expectation from the beginning because my professor is very problematic. Oh God, here we go again… enough already!!!
After 2 weeks lurking in my room, writing thesis documentation, reading technical journals and practically sleeping whenever there was a chance, I’m finally back again 
Who would have guess I’m still alive. I thought I would be dead by the end of “thesis 1″ because of stress, pressure and emotional problems. The main reason is no matter how much I organize my life (schedule, studies, relationship, etc) it generally ends up disorganized as if my life is meant to be at the edge of chaos. Nevertheless, I am very thankful to God because no matter how difficult things are, the sweat, tears and blood that I put into my work seems to be paying off. I’m very grateful to be here, alive and kicking.
Let’s talk about my college experience with my professors. I think I just developed hatred to one of my professors because of HER stupidity. However, I’m still doubtful if I would be really angry to her or I would show pity to her. I don’t want to sound arrogant but I don’t want to lie about the truth anyway. I really lost interest in her subject because of her incompetence. Don’t you think it is pathetic when more than two-thirds of the class does not even bother listening to her when she’s reading the lecture? It’s a big insult that she could not handle our class properly yet she didn’t mind reading the lectures again. I personally couldn’t stomach her reading in front of our class. I understand the lessons much better if I read them on my own rather than attending her class. She’s not even helpful in the laboratory. Everything is self-help as if there’s an invisible instructor at the back of the lab.
Anyway I would stop my ranting and I’ll just move on to our thesis panelists and adviser. It’s really funny how we convinced our thesis adviser to help us in our thesis proposal. At first we thought that having an advisor with technical expertise in .NET would help us a lot in decision making and program logic so we took a professor who was trained in .NET. Later, we realized that we have to ditch him because he’s too preoccupied that we could not get any help from him. So we choose Sir Kelly to be our thesis advisor. He’s a system administrator and the faculty ambassador to Microsoft Philippines. It’s really awkward that we have to change our thesis advisor halfway but we really have to do it for our sake. It’s really worth it because Sir Kelly really helped us improve the content of our documentation and set the goals of our thesis properly. Choosing our panelists is more interesting. We worked on their schedule first in order to avoid difficulty in reserving defense schedule, and we also intentionally chose those professors who have vacant periods in Thursday and Friday afternoons because we want to reserve our thesis defense later, either on the Thursday or Friday to give us more time in preparation. We only have 4 choices but we have to remove one professor from the list because he’s only available on Saturday. So we took their approval and made them our thesis panelists. Surprisingly, during our defense we were not bombarded by questions. I think that our panelists were satisfied to what they saw in our proposal. They were really excited to use a working protocol already. In fact, one of them had mistaken that we were defending a thesis prototype implementation (thesis 2). They “demanded” several additional features so we needed to revise our documentation for those on-demand features. I’m very glad that they didn’t trash our ideas. After all, our thesis is for the benefit of our school so they better give us a motivating grade. 
That’s it. I have cleared all the requirements for this term and I’m anticipating my grades already. Everything should be fine.
Jeeezzz… thesis documentation is one of the most time consuming write up I have ever done. Seriously, I didn’t imagine that it would take that much time just to complete about 50% of the documentation.
It’s quite problematic when we were required to do our own Data Flow Diagram when it was not even discussed to us. Those who are taking Information Management have tackled this before. Unfortunately, we, the hapless students enrolled in IT didn’t have a chance to learn it from one of our subjects… Well anyway we had to do some self-study before doing our DFDs.
Signing off.
Lately I have been concentrating on programming and writing thesis documentation so I missed blogging for several days (or is it a week??) I had been restless specially in completing our thesis documentation because it seems to be going nowhere this week. Searching for related literature isn’t easy you know.
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