Phases

This week was perhaps the beginning of the end of our INTRICT course. As we attended our last formal class, each student was tense because during the last class, students were given the chance to redeem their low midterm grades in the Macro report. Even though I don't believe I did particularly well in the make-up test, I think the last "hurrah" of the course pretty much summed up everything it was meant to be, a preliminary course to build a solid foundation of what we will be in the future. Call it a phase, the starting and actually the most important phase, the INTRICT course, gave us an overview of everything we will face in the future. Perhaps INTRICT is, and will be, the course everyone will remember in the years to come, perhaps, it is the course when it all started...

Unforgotten Art

And then it came, the week everyone has talked about since last week, The INTRICT Break Week. The main and the only event prepared for the INTRICT break was the dance number presentation of each group. As each group presented the dance number, it certainly brought us closer as a class simply because we learned something about each of our classmates that we hadn't previously known. Who would have thought a guy with a nickname from a game could dance that well? After each group had presented, one thing was sure, everybody got a satisfaction because of the hard work each had put in for practicing. It was a short moment that could very well last forever for each of us.
We learned:

• Many could dance well in the class.
• Creativity is abundant at S13.
• R and B music is dance music.

INTRICT

This week at INTRICT, databases and networking took center stage as our class were taught about the nature and characteristics of each one. As our professor discussed its uses and overview, we, as a class realized that the importance of networks and databases is constantly increasing in the industry. Moreover, memory sizes were also discussed at one session, off-topic as it may be, it was something that was able to add to our knowledge of technology, mainly data storage.
Thing achieved at INTRICT:

• Created an innovative dance number for Chris Brown's hit song; Forever.
• Learned about memory sizes. 4-16-32.....
• Learned about the Y2k incident and how it affected the computer world.
• Learned about the history of data storage.
  

Dead Ends

INTRICT this week taught us something new, something we don't come across everyday. For me, I think it taught us the value of hardwork, which I think is essential for IT professionals because as we climb the corporate ladder, we must face challenges of deadlines as well as tough working schedules. Hardwork, I think, is a thing often misunderstood by many, we always come across a person that says "I work hard", but the question is, what qualifies as hard work?. For me, our performance is measured simply by our conscience, therefore we actually cannot tell if we worked hard or not. Hard work is produced when the distinctive balance between planning and realization is achieved, it is a balance that seems so simple yet overlooked by many. Whenever a person creates an impression of himself that he is a hard worker, I realize that he is just making a dead end in his life, simply because by simply judging his own performance only on the realization part, he creates an imaginary boundary on what the future can, and will still hold for him.
INTRICT this week made us realize:

• The value of hardwork: The satisfaction that you get for a job done creates peacefulness that we achieved something for ourselves.
• Standing still: Failures define who we are, moreover how we face them dictates what will happen to us in the future.