Thinking about your approved/ proposed system, is it worth the three or more years of learning you get from the university? Discuss how you arrive with the proposal.
Being a student in the tertiary level doesn’t mean that all you have to do is just sit prettily and listen to the professor or the instructor talking and making lectures. It is far different from our kindergarten, elementary and high school years where we could observe that learning is given by means of spoon feeding. As we emerge in taking education, the responsibility as a learner also steps up higher.
The moment I decided to enroll in this university, I never had the idea of what will be the life I will be heading. What is in my mind is that I will just be a student who would go to school daily, go through the rooms—interact, participate and socialize with my colleagues. And what’s certain is that I have just premeditated that after four years, I will be graduating soon, and that is this year 2009. But unfortunately, the four years will be extended due to some unexpected issues. Presently, I am on my fourth year in USeP but most of my subjects are for the third year level. It’s quite funny to think; still this is the bitter reality—and it’s no way out other than facing it. My four-year stay in the university is full of adventure. Be it the positive side or the other.
As an Information Technology student, it is a necessity for us that we are equipped with the better- quality of facilities and the education itself for us to be geared up in the succeeding years. We are accustomed to some sorts of developing simple to complex programs, systems and other computing technicalities that which is essential in our field. In relation to our subject in Systems Analysis and Design I, in which I am currently enrolled, all of the stuffs I have been through are substantial in the said course. For this semester, we are tasked to find any organization and study their system if there exists and if not, we are to come up with a proposal that would answer the need. This seems to be a challenge for us. If I will be asked about the sense of worth and the knowledge I gained within three or more years from the university and correlate it with our proposal, I would say that it is just in the average rate.
For the past three years, during the lecture times, the discussion is easy to comprehend. But then, when the application point comes, I start scratching my nose. Honestly, when it comes to developing programs, I find it hard to do so. However, I can understand the written code for the program. I believe that some things are learnable, it just takes time, passion and effort--- these things, I admit that I have missed; it’s a no good for me. But, life must goes on as they say. To bring to mind the past events just like the time pressure and discouragements given by our instructors; add to them up the poor facilities and lack of computers to accommodate the students, would somehow diminish the students’ interest in pursuing their studies. This is the sad part of taking the opportunity studying in state universities. Nevertheless, this would in some way be a challenge for the student’s part to exert and invest more effort in tracking the trails of education. It’s a mind perspective also. It’s how you see and weigh things and deal with them. Going back to the SAD I, it’s an advantage that we are grouped. This calls for teamwork. This means that the triumph of one is the triumph of all, and the fall of one is the fall of all. United we stand, divided we fall. We help hand in hand to survive the endeavors in our studies. We’ll make use of what knowledge or learning we have achieved. We’ll support one another and back up each member. Collaboration is very important knowing that not all of us are good in computing procedures. Whatever is the lack of one, we will patch it up. It’s either we go up or sink together.
With regards to our proposal, we find a long time looking for organizations that are open and willing to extend their time and cooperate with us. Until such time our professor introduced to us some existing Information Systems in the university that needs to be further studied so as to be developed and enhanced for the benefit of the majority. And our group was assigned to study the SRMIS or the Students Registration Management Information System. It undeniably gave doubt for the group if we will pursue the said system. It is unquestionably a huge system knowing that it involves many organizations or department in the school such as the OSS or the Office of School Services, the different colleges and the School Registrar. We do have reservations in each of us. But then we have accorded to pursue it and gave it a try. We prepared letters and asked approval for the departments. As soon as we have a discussion with the head of School Registrar in the university, she denied us to study the existing SRMIS. Her main reason is that the data are very confidential and we as students are not allowed to perform any study or manipulations of the system. If we are very eager and aggressive to do so, we have to ask permission from the university president first then to another official—it would take us time. Candidly, we were quite disheartened of what we have heard. As the conversation went on, she has suggested an idea that would help us somehow. The proposal goes like this: Based on each group member’s observation and experiences during the 1st step of the enrollment (in which, the students have to be evaluated by their respective year level advisers), the advisers have to go through a lot of evaluation forms to find the name of the student and after that evaluating the student or sometimes, the advisers would ask the student to locate his form. Some advisers made a simple solution; it is by using Microsoft Excel. But it would still be tiresome to go through a lot of files just to find the name of the student. In addition, one of the main concerns of Ms. Soller, the reason why she suggested this system is for them to lessen their burden in evaluating the graduating students, she said, they have to locate the student records, one by one, they have to evaluate the students manually.
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