Digital Fortress

Wow. Almost 2 months after my last post. And for that two months, I spend the rest of my life, giving my 100%, sitting in front of my PC almost 20hrs a day just to finish our thesis. I took a break from blogging and everything that I enjoyed just for this …. thing. And now, those efforts are worthless. All that because of that freaking storm, those panelists and the school registrar.

Here’s the summary…

1. We need to implement our thesis (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) in a school and we ended up implementing in St. Joseph’s Academy at Las Pinas. Just finding a school took us a over a month. Coincidentally, my old classmate, Thirdie, was actually a practicing teacher at the class section that the principal gave us.

2. Our thesis implementation required us to have 5 laptops in a network. Because our group is so unfortunate that we don’t own a single laptop and the school refused to lend their computer lab, we ended up bringing our own PC (yes, a complete PC) and forced to climb 5 floors to reach the room. Just imagine the rest of what happened..including the expenses. Buti na lang may 3 nagpahiram ng laptop (thanks to CJ, Jong and Franz).

3. We consulted a statistician, a friend of my sister’s former classmate, and we just paid him P****! We ran out of money! Hiyang-hiya talaga kami. Tsk tsk tsk.

4. We had our defense on September 27, one day before Milenyo hit Manila. We were scheduled for a redefense the next Thursday, October 5. One week is just enough for us to revise our work. But then, on the next morning, Milenyo came and caused a black-out. We were stunned, completely unaware of the coming storm. We can’t do anything. We can’t write a single code in our program or even revise the document. Days passed and we were still patiently waiting for the return of power supplies keeping in mind that we were supposed to redefend our work in that Thursday. Monday and Tuesday passed, wala pa rin ni isa sa grupo namin ang may kuryente! Shit! We have to do something! Early on, we knew we can’t make it on Thursday kasi wala pa kaming nagagawa. And the deadline for submission of the final grade is on October 13! If we don’t make it on that day, we can’t march on November 2006. The next graduation is said to be on May 2007!

What we did is to rent a house in Taft where we can work. Buti pa dito, may kuryente na. Ans as usual, nagbitbit na naman kami ng PC. Sa amin, the following lang nagkaroon Thursday (the original schedule ng redefense). Sa kagroupmate ko, Friday pa.

So this week, we were supposed to be defending our thesis. Readyng-ready na. Panelsist naman ang problema. They don’t have a common schedule! Pag pwede yung dalawa, hindi pwede ang isa. So, na-move yung schedule past the October 13 deadline. We just hope na ma-extend ang deadline. Nag-petition na sa registrar kasi. The bad news is…walang nangyari. The petition was denied.

We are doomed. Wala man lang consideration. Everything that we have sacrificed is worthless now. After all these efforts, no reward has come. It’s painful. My father is supposed to come home this November from Saudi. A perfect timing for my sister’s debut and my supposed to be graduation. And now, on the day of November 29, I’ll just sleep. Gusto kong tulugan ang araw na yun pretending that it doesn’t exist.

Haay…maybe God has a good reason…a better reason. I wanna know THAT reason. Right now.

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