As I had experience in the past 1st semester in my four (4) years as a Computer Science Student, I thought it was just so easy. Thinking of what the preceding batches of Computer Science who told us that this course is just easy, but for me, it’s a hard one. Maybe because we are not that fully prepared of the challenges in the 1st semester which leaves us with five (5) majors without counting our respective enrolled minor subjects.
Since before I enrolled in college, I never thought that Computer Science has so many major subjects to be loaded. 1st Semester in my 4th year life is a new beginning. It was! Realizing the ache that we took during out last semester in our 3rd year life which force us to took that summer retake class. It was really a pain in my studies for I never thought; I mean, we never thought that we would retake that subject. I don’t really knew what made up our teacher that time that almost three-forth of the class gave him a retake mark. And so, I can really say that 1st semester in 4th year schooling is a good start to finish this course. It is a great hope for all of us who continue to pursue, for us to graduate and earn a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Degree.
Anyways, the happening in my 1st semester 4th year level was another trembling minutes. Thinking of the five major subjects, which have its own corresponding requirements and projects. It’s really a crazy course but there is no turning back. I need to face the consequences and just be ready for my best in order to pass the subjects.
Enumerating the highlights of my challenges in my major subjects were the modification of the NORSU website, PLAVDS (Portable Live Automated Virtual Desktop Software), Mini-IDE, Video Editing, Network Proposal, and Piapi Health Center System. Quite few yet it is not the totality of the challenges, because aside for each individual softwares to be made, most of them should have a formal documentation and we defended it on a set of panels or to our respective instructors.
Modification of the NORSU website was given to all the 4th year class, hence, we were group according to what we should do. I was a part of the core group which was the main group of the division among the other groups for the website. I was assigned for the codings and the proper placement of the data of which the other groups gathered. Data from the different colleges and offices in the NORSU and other matters related for the NORSU website. As what I have mentioned, 4th year was another trembling time because we thought that we failed this subject. I was really dismayed that time when our teacher publicly announces that we were all INC (Incomplete) because of not passing to him 
what we made. Then on, we talked to him and we told him that the draft of the revision of the NORSU website was already finished. We demanded for that for he is not in the school for a month and thinking that he just easily leave us with INC grade. Anyways, we just accepted that time than to have a retake subjects. INC can be complied easily, but amazingly, during the getting of grades, we all passed and it was really a miracle. Click the image below to link to our modified NORSU Website.
PLAVDS (Portable Live Automated Virtual Desktop Software) is great one! If you don’t have any idea of what is this, it’s for you to check it out. Just click the image below.
Mini-IDE is another headache for it was not easy to made. Thinking of programming software that a Computer Science used and out from that, we will make our own programming software and that conceptualize our Mini-IDE. It was really hard to understand a simple programming and imagining us, to make our programming software without knowing all the necessary programming skills. Really hard yet, we passed. I can’t show you the final output for it was coded in a different programming language.
Video editing is another dreaded project. Though I admit that it was a bit interesting. Making our own videoke video, a movie dubbing, and a promotion video. Despite the three requirements, only two of the video edited was his intention. Considering that we had gave our effort on video making. Anyways, we passed and thank God!
Network Proposal is another ache for we never discuss of this. The only coverage we had was on the network and on how to network. We haven’t tackled any, on how to propose and set the necessary plans for a specific company, yet, we did our respective research and we made it.
Piapi health center was our project for the health office itself. We made simple software that would set ease for the staff in the health center for their care of their patients.
In spite the projects that I had experience in my 1st semester in my 4th year of schooling in college, I can say that it is really hard yet I just believe that I can pass. I mentioned once this with my group that, “We must not be dismayed of the problem that we faced for it is a BLESSING!” Though I am that positive, the fear that left in me is as well great, but I need to be strong because I want to GRADUTE!
Hoping for a continual passing in my studies this 2nd semester. I have set my self to aspire more, to believe more, to be positive more, ‘coz I really want to graduate nah jud. Thanking the Lord for all the blessings he gave for me. I am excited to wear the toga . . . God Bless nalang nako this second semester . . .
