End of classes and more....

The first semester of school year 2008-2009 has ended and yet we will still be going to school come tomorrow and the following days to submit the requirements of some of our subjects. I guess this would mean that most of us IT students would not be having any semestral breaks this year. I took up 21 units this semester and out of that 21, I’ve finished all the requirements for 8 of those, which leaves me 13 more units, or 4 subjects (all of them major ones), of unfinished requirements. Two of those subjects require me, and my groupmates, to create a working database system for a given company. The remaining two, requires me to submit research papers on the Human Resource and on the Information Systems of two different companies. Even though it seems to be a tall order, the situation isn’t really that depressing. My group-mates and I have already finished the two research papers and all that’s needed is for our professor to check it and to give the go signal to bind the research paper into a more presentable form. What really concerns me is the database system for our Database 3 subject. I guess the time frame that was given for the completion of the project was not realistic. I suggest that the projects of programming classes should be given at the beginning of the semester so that the students would have ample time to create the necessary programs.

Out of those 21 units that I took, 7 of those units were for two of the best subjects (HRM and MIS) that I ever had. It’s not because I’m good at those subjects, but probably I was ^_^, it was because of the way the professor handled the subjects. We did not have the conventional style of teaching, blackboard and chalk, instead our professor sent us out to learn not from himself but from real institutions. Our class was not bounded by the four corners of the room. We met online for assignments, spent time with our adopted companies, and met in the classroom only to share and learn from the experiences of others in their respective companies. It was also due to those two subjects that this blog was created. Our professor required each of his students to create their own personal blogs and of course to update it from time to time. ^_^ Thanks to my professor Eng‘r Randy S. Gamboa, this semester has been one of the most enjoyable ones ever, even though a lot of things still have to be done before I could get out of the bushes.

I hope we will meet again in class, sir, just NOT in HRM and MIS. ^_^