I think therefore I am

A saying was introduced to us by our professor during our class in the Nodal center last December 6, 2008. It was around 9 am when our professor writes a quote in the white board that stated “I think, Therefore I exist” by Rene Descartes. Honestly I don’t know what the quotes talk about. I doubt what would be my answer. Since my classmates tell that the quote was about I exist because I think. But as the days goes by, I don’t really know what the real meaning of that quote was. So I sat down on the chair and google the phrase “ I think, Therefore I exist.” – Rene Descartes. It is all about thoughts and doubts. A certain writer tells and formulated that Existence = doubt + thought. But I don’t really know how they come up with that idea if we derived it to find thought = existence – doubt? But I don’t really get the idea. So as I reflected on the sermon of our professor in my own idea that for me, I think therefore I exist, means that each one of us should think not only in our selves but also for others and for the good of everybody. Existence not only in physical aspect but also mentally aspects. That Saturday was another day that will mark my calendar because another call or sermon that was again delivered to us. But luckily our professor did not get mad to us. But as summary “God think, Therefore I/we exist”. Have a nice and wonderful day. Merry Christmas in advance..

me versus word

How can I elaborate a single idea in a minimum of 1000 words??????? Hahaiz.. dili jud ko kabalo magword playing bah……. Huhuhu…. Kung magword playing man ko magrumble2 ra.. unya dili na masabtan… unzaon man na oie……. Hahaiz…. Lisuda sa along kahimtang uie….. sa tanan pa nga subject sa elementary ug highskul ang english jud a pinaka lisud para sa akoa… nganu? Kay dli man gud ko nagabasa ug mga libro bah……. Heheheheh hahaiz…… dli man gain ko kabalo kung wrong gramming (grammatically wrong) naba akong gi compose nga sentence… hahaiz.. pero cge nalang naa na man ni.. huhuhuh

late comerzzzzzzz

I was late in our subject Future Technology last Saturday November 29, 2008 and our professor said “Diba nagsabot na tan a la nay malate… riza”.. I only reacted with a smile… hehehe (naulaw jud ko…). I felt guilty I thought I was the only one late but thank God I’m not.. heheheh. Though I’m late but there is only one quote that always reminds me that “its better to be late than to be absent” hehehe but as a student I must come to school early or on time. Actually it only takes 15 minutes in order for me to arrived in school. But I don’t know that usually around 8 – 9 in the morning that’s the time were many people go to their work. And it is traffic.. since I’m not used to go to school in the morning it is usually at noon. Hahaiz… (late na gain sige pako explain… heheheh).
All group was finished the report in that day. Its hard for me just to seat and listen to the reporters. In the morning unit 3 was able to present their assigned topic almost 3 hours. Imagine 3 hours of sitting and listening. I find my self weak that time. no other work just sitting and listening. Hahaiz… in the afternoon time for unit 4 and unit 5 for their presentation.. now another 4 hours of sitting and listening. Iam able to report my topic which was the future of education.. but I was not able to deliver it well since I am hungry, tired and specially sleepy. But then the report must go on. Imagine it is about 4 hours without a break. If you were in that situation maybe you will collapse.(over… hehehe). It is about 5 pm when I sign to April that it is already time. because I want to go home, I have felt at that time headache and my eyes is tired and even my mind.
There’s one question that our professor asks to us.. it was “ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE FUTURE?” my answer is NO….. future will come no matter what we do. It is a part of our life. Maybe many things will happened that time. and in that time I’ll make sure that those things whether BAD or GOOD will make me a productive and a better person…….

career????

Think about yourself worthy to be called as IT professional, how do you see yourself 10 years from now, what are your strategies to get there?

Every one of us thinks what would be our career after graduating college. My reason why I study in college is only to have a college diploma to make my parents proud of me, an educational attainment for my future work in order to have greater chances of winning a certain work. I observed nowadays many of college graduates are not into practice their courses. Many IT graduates often work in the call centers but that’s not their course all about. Maybe it is still dealing with IT, because it is working with information, but what they are thinking earning money. Most of people don’t have works in their field, maybe they don’t suit with the career they have, maybe it’s hard to find job or the career they have is not that in demand. But IT, I think the course I have chosen will give me a lot of opportunities to get a better job, maybe this one will make me rich someday. But it takes time, it needs strategies, it needs knowledge. Now I realize, being a successful one in the future cannot be predict or be seen while your still studying. Lot of people does well in their school life, but when they have graduated they don’t have strategies to get a nice job. Like our neighbor who was a Mechanical Engineer and only turn out as a charcoal maker, he did not used his education as his career in life maybe that is what he wants to happen in his life. While there are people that is not that good during their college life but got a very nice job when they have graduated, and I hope I am one of them. So I can say it just depend with your strategies in life, on how you handle things to make a good reflection to you. There are also many accounting graduates often work as cashier in malls and establishments. I don’t know what the reason behind those wrong career choices. But one thing for sure others think that maybe those are their stepping stone to achieve their goals in life. I think education is the basis on how people treat you in the community. People will respect you if you have achieved college and have graduated. During my elementary I have dream to become an engineer because I think people will adore me and be proud since I have reach the profession as an engineer. During my high school years I have dream to become a policewoman why? Because one of my uncle is a policeman, I think police profession will make me a strong woman and being respected by others as I wanted to be respected. This is one of the major careers that come up in my mind, when I am about to graduate high school. But unfortunately I don’t enroll in the courses that I have dream since my elementary and high school days.

It was April of the year 2005 when I take my entrance examination in USEP Mintal because USEP Obrero entrance examination was closed that time. The thing that comes in my mind that time is when I did not pass the exam I will no longer studying college. But luckily I have passed the examination the first course I write in the paper is ECE and second choice it the IT. But I have decided to take IT as my course because there is no summer class like in engineering. I have my summer job in order to gain money and that money will be paid in my fees in school. It was the first semester of my year in college when people ask me what is my course I said that I am an Information Technology student. They always say “Good Luck. Mo shift japun ka.” And I answer the with “sige lang ilhan bitaw na kung mo shift. heheheh”. That time I begun to think that I should go with my course or shift? That one question I ask in myself. Many of my classmates have shift into other course. But I have decided that since I choose this career I must graduate with this profession. And I have confidence that I can get a nice job after college, because as I can see almost all of the companies even plants are using advance technology, even the control system of plants are now being controlled by computers so I think its not hard for me to find a better job. And what I have in mind if luckily ill graduate soon ill apply work even it don’t have that big salary, all I want is just I can practice my skills and be ready for the big events that may come to my life. There are many opportunities if you only have the strategies. Strategy is the best key to have a good and profitable job. Strategy, it includes your moral manners, they say, a brain with a heart do nice things. I am not too worried about my grades because I think I can be better in applications than theory. Like what others says, you will learn many things in your work that haven’t teach in college.

I think I can call myself as an IT professional if I already achieve my goals, my aims before choosing this profession. I can call myself as and IT professional if I’m earning money with my career as an Information Technology Analyst, as a Computer Programmer, as a Software Engineer, as a Systems Administrator, as a Web Designer, as a Web Developer, as a Webmaster, as a Maintenance Technician, as a Network Administrator, as a Database Administrator. If I can do works what a professional can do. I can do my works without any help from others like creating unique programs, creating a new programming language. And even say if those other professional that they clap their hand because of the work well done. But as for now it’s hard for me to do all those things since I am still a student. A student needs help from others in order to make my assignments and projects. A student needs advice from superiors like instructors and even in my parents and family. A student needs financially help from my parents too. Without them I cannot even go to school since they gave me money everyday in order to reach the school. But I am not just a student but a student with a course of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology student doing al my best to finish my course with all the knowledge, with all the leanings and with nice grades, to become a professional IT someday. And I think becoming a professional one takes a lot of challenges, in other courses they take examinations and have to pass a very broad thesis book related to their field. Maybe I can face all that challenges soon if I already have the guts. Also, I can call myself as a professional one if I can already share my learning and knowledge about my course, if I am able to teach other people base on my career, or just simply to say to be an instructor someday, like my instructors, I can call them as a professional one, or they are really professionals, that’s why they are called professors. And who knows? I become one of them someday, but still needs lot of strategies.


Maybe I can be a professional IT 5 or 10 years from now, 10 years from now is a very long term. Lot of things may happen, maybe I have lot of children at that time, but lets talk that as if I am already a professional information technologist at that time, with a happy family, lot of money or just say a millionaire because of my career. Maybe a famous programmer, where I am just sitting in front of my personal computer, no, not a personal computer anymore but a laptop. I’m sure I have a lot of laptops a that time, which I don’t even have one right now, just sitting, waiting for the money as a payment for my work. Maybe I become an analyst, but I prefer myself to work in other countries cause they are more advance in terms of technology. I want to learn more and lot of things related with my profession which I can’t get in staying in our country. As I have said, I also see myself as an IT instructor someday, a terror one, maybe I have a straight hair if that time comes. And ill teach my students very well like what our instructor did to us.But of course before I can take my big step in that wonderful future. I must begin it with a small step this small step makes the big step achievable. I should have my own and personal strategies in order to achieve my goals in life. It started when I think what course and career I should take. As for know my simple strategy are studying , eating nutritious foods, surfing the net and gathered information that are related to my studies, sleeping well and of course practicing my profession. Maybe after graduating college I will find a job and that job will be my stepping stone to achieve what I want to be. Maybe when I graduate, that’s the time where I should make a very wise strategy. I think my first step is finding a wonderful and course related job. I am applying as many companies as I can, of course related to my career. My aim with that is to train myself and to be exposed to the current technology.

So I can say, as a summary to my long story, in order for you to get that word professional stick with your name, you must face all the challenges, the you must face time. And of course the key word, “strategy” you must learn these word, or I must learn more with these word. I must practice myself, practice my skills, all skills, specially English speaking and writing skill, in this profession I should be literate enough to face those they called big boss, because I can’t use my dialect, my bisayan dialect in communicating with the persons within my field. It takes time to be a successful, professional IT so I’ll use that time wisely and rightly.

sermon? wake up call?

It was Monday morning around 9 in the morning. But before anything else it was a habit of our professor every time we have a class a sermon or a wake up call as other say. But this sermon is one of the factors that can affect our life as a student and as a person.
As a student I can say that the sermon will make me a better student, being responsible in every assignments and class work. The sermon will also enlighten me about many things which I most likely forgot as a student. I may not good in expressing my thoughts and feelings through writing but I am trying hard to be one since, it is one of the requirements as a student and as a person. I hate English writing; I hate making reflection and even composing a sentence. I don’t know why I hate it. But as a student I must love them. Hahaiz.. Even speaking in English is not my interest.
As a person it make me realize what I must do as a daughter to my father and mother, as a sister to my brother and sister or even a person in the community. During my high school days I only focus my self in my studies and my barkadas I don’t even think my family. I even came home early, early like early in the morning or at the dawn around 1 am. These things make me realize that the most precious person is the family.

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Saturday, November 22, 2008 around 1 pm. I don’t know how to react on that day since many things happened. But all I want to tell to all that we must be responsible in our work and we should have our own initiative to face our own problems. I believe that each of one has a reason of its existence.

SE vs SAD

Many information in the net that describe Software Engineering and Software Analysis and Design but this is the collaboration of all the definition that I have read. Software Engineering refers to a discipline that concerned with software production it uses the right tools and techniques in order to produce the right software. System Analysis and Design is studying a system, identifying the problems and by this information it can help for the improvement of the system. By this I can say that both SE and SAD also requires analysis. They should work hand in hand in order produce a software that answers the need of the costumer.

_merry Christmas in advance_
_”goal without a deadline is dream”_

research... hahaiz

Creating research is hard.. hahaiz you need to gather many data as you can… reflect on it and create your introduction about the research… I’m not good in English but I must be. Because creating research needs English.. heheheh I find hard time doing this. My computer has encountered many problem and conflict. I have installed the MSOffice but it doesn’t work. I tried Open Office but there is no feature in correction of grammar. Hahaiz.. well anyways I have reformatted my computer in order for MSWord to run, finally I have been able to use MSWord. Thank God I can work now with my research study. Though it’s late but I try to make it faster than I can.

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big things comes from small things. --- according to KARLO

yehey... its true.. like a puzzle each piece of it counts. every pieces connects to each other. they might have unique identity but they work as one. like us people will also work like a puzzle, we should work as one. 

Assignment 9

On the assumption that you heard/read the SONA of the President yesterday, July 28, 2008, derived at least 3 research topics that could help improve our quality of life. Enumerate at least 5 objectives per research topic.

Population Growth a Major Problem in the Country.

Population growth is one of the major problem in our country. Since many people are not knowledgeable in family planning.

-To educate the people about family planning.
-To state how many people are aware of the effect of population growth.
-To determined how many family have more that one child.
-To determine what mostly the level of living are the reason of over population.
-To know what are the main reason of the over population .


Investing in Filipino Talent

As we all know many Filipino are capable in doing something like researching creating invention an what so ever. The objectives of these study are:

-To recognize Filipino talent.
-To lessen the Filipino people go out of the country to find job.
-To maximize the Filipino talent and make use of that talent in our country.
-To make the people proud being a Filipino.
-To make Filipino popular in the world through their inventions and researches.


Promotion of Philippine Assets

Many of the places here in the Philippines are wonderful and many of the tourist have been in those places, animals, flower, festivals and many more. These study will focus on:

-To promote Philippine natural resources.
-To encourage tourist to visit the Philippines.
-To make some investors invest in the Philippines since there are many tourist.
-To establish a good connection to other country.
-To develop the some of the resources in our country.

Assignment 8

In your own understanding, what's the difference between "METHOD" and "METHODOLOGY"?

As what i have understood method and methodology is co-related with each other since method is the way of making something or a procedure of doing something while methodology is a set of methods in which there are principles included.

Assignment 7

Consider assignment 1 as your point of reference, choose at least one post/article of your classmates and make a review.

Entitled “Video Games: A Source of Benefits or Addiction?” is the article that I have choosen was from Ms. Miah Mae Bernaldo.

This article strikes me most because I am also playing computer games. Since, nowadays net cafes can be found everywhere; net cafes also the reason why there are many online games. And the main target of this computer/video games are students and children.

It shows that playing video games that show violence can also affect to those gamers especially children since they don’t even know if that is good or bad. Children playing video games must have their guidance or parent on their sides in order for them to guide the child. Say to them that that is only games not applicable to the real world. And I agree that this video/computer game can somehow ease the stress especially those stress in school like creating projects.

By this article I can say that the children parental guidance is advice in playing online or video games.

Assignment 6

Most of the researchers want their research to be published in the top-tier journals which is considered as their top achievement in their field. In order for the research to be published the first step is to submit the research to the top-tier journals and in order for the research to undergo critique by the board of the top-tier if it qualifies the factors.

For me, the key factors for publishing research is the economic factor of the research in our world by which the research should be helpful in our world especially in solving economic problems, the impact factor in which the research have a great impact to the world of technology, the content factor which the research content is true and gives a new knowledge.

Assignment 5

Q: How do you know if a piece of research work is good or not? How are they evaluated?

For me, I can say that such research work is good if it has everything in concern with its research topic, meaning it focuses only to its scope and it is limited, a research work that can make bright or dull reader understand, simple but has all the information and ideas related to the research topic, also a good research work must have illustrations or table to be more logical and explicable. Other is it should be well presented, with a right combinations of phrases and paragraphs. A research work are evaluated through its contents, its impact to its readers, on how it convince the reader and has the answer to whatever questions that the reader may have, of course that is related to the research topic.

Assignment 4

What do you think is the role of research topic in deciding your future career?

As a student most of us conduct researches it is one of the basic need. A research is like discovering, experimenting new things and explores your field of interest. In choosing a research it is most important that the topic is related to IT or CS and of course it should be in our field of interest. Since, we are the one to conduct it and research on it, it is necessary to choose the topic you like. Because in the near future, whatever outcome of my study. It will be a reference that I have done something beautiful in my college life. And I explore the field where I belong. The research or research topic will somehow give me publicity if it is beautiful and interesting. And so, some company will hire me to conduct some research and be paid by it. And by this research I can gain knowledge some knowledge that can only be found in doing research. Enhance my ability in dealing people because some research definitely needs an interaction with other people. Also makes me a resourceful person in the fact research requires money since I am a student I need to make my research not that expensive. Use my initiative to conduct this research. This are the roles of research topic in deciding my future career as a researcher.

Assignment 3

As a CS/IT student of USEP, what research topics should usually be address?

As we all know computer science and information technology courses focuses more on technical like software and hardware and management aspect. As a student in information technology I must conduct a research about those topics i stated earlier. And by conducting a research it should be helpful in our society and for us student and people who are in this world of information technology.

Assignment 2

This is my answer in finding out what is the state of computer science research.

There are lot of information and articles about the state of computer science research in the internet and as I examine those articles. I’ve just realize that computer science is all about the study of theoretical foundations of all the information and apply them in the computer systems, and computer science also the study of information, structure, representation and utilization.


Since computer science has many fields like computer graphics. Well about of computer science research is expensive since it’s a research it requires money and also requires to travel in order for the research to be made. One of the articles I have read is the “Computer Science Research in India” the author stated that “Many computer science researchers in India have endeavored to carry out high caliber research in spite of limited infrastructure and resources to conduct and communicate their research.” though the researchers in India have limited resources in the way of communications they try to give a quality research that what should be the attitude of computer science researchers. Well, about its technical topics are: engineering, commerce, algorithms, computations, theory, analysis, design, efficiency, implementation, and application of computer programs (software) and computer equipment (hardware).

References:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/agency/krithi2.html#cntnts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science

www.njit.edu/v2/archivecatalog/undergraduate/91/19-und.html

Assignment 1

This is my answers about examining a research paper.

Effect of the Internet on Financial Markets

Internet is worldwide, it is public which many people uses it in order to communicate and make transaction along it. Internet has a great role in our society nowadays since most of us including children know how to use it. And as technology goes by the markets uses it. The study about “The Effect of the Internet on Financial Markets” by Hal R. Varian of School Of Information Management and Systems of the University of California in September 1998 tackles about what are the advantages and disadvantages of Internet in the Financial Markets. About the retail transactions in financial services states that since 1996 there where about 1.5 million of brokerages accounts by 1998 there where 5.3 million of accounts. So it states that the Internet has a great role in our markets. And it is also show that more brokers adopt the on line transaction rather than the full-service brokerages.

References:

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/brookings-paper.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Machine-Assisted Election Auditing

An election play an important role in the government since this is the way people chooses the persons who will lead the country. Since many of us know how in our government make the election procedure. This machine-assisted election auditing helps to easily count the votes of the people in minimum span of time. It is wonderful if our government adopt this machine since this machine helps the Comelec to lessen the money paid for the election officers. And lessen the “agawan ng balota” here in the Philippines; also monitors and broadcast the votes of the people easily. And minimize the “dayaan”.


References:

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/audit07full.pdf

The Demand for Bandwidth

According to the wikipedia free encyclopedia that bandwidth it mostly refers as a bit rate measured in bits and example of it is the network throughput which is the connection of data rate which is also according to Hartley’s law. As we all know that the internet is widely used in our world today for ordinary users they just want to chat and do researches through net they don’t even know what the bandwidth is. But for us as an advance user bandwidth really matters a lot because this states how fast connection of our computer to the net.

References:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/wtp/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_%28computing%29