Are you an Information
Technology student who’ll soon have their thesis-making?
Something college students should be prepared of. This is
also a very head aching phase of college life that even until now, remembering
the word makes me anxious. A nightmare.
CHOOSING A MEMBER
This is a vital part of your thesis life, and somehow should
be dealt in best possible seriousness. Before determining your group mates, you
should first ponder about what grades you really like to have. You should also
be something that has a market value before being egotistical in picking your
partners in this very critical venture.
Presenter
You may want to have someone who is communication wise. Who
is witty enough to answer when the jury starts to throw open ended questions.
Designer
It doesn’t really have to be so flashy. Simplicity still
applies but you have to take account the environment and the users you are
engaging with. It might come into a formal look yet easy to be understood. Take
risk but not too much.
Source Researcher
No man is an island. You will need the help of other people.
You need a member who is “madiskarte” when it comes to finding the right people
that can also contribute to your team i.e. older schoolmates who can give
advices. The researcher might also be in the form of a brilliant researcher in
subjects related to the project.
Programmer
A member who is going all the cody stuff is needed. Having
many programmer will be a less of advantage when not behaving in a team way.
This is a very hard and time consuming work.
Money
Choosing a member who will just pay instead of contributing scholarly
will just divide the team. Worst is having a member who got OCD problems where
contributing money is painstaking and little biased-like event makes them
nagging a lot. Be wise. Choose someone who’s not in only for the profit but
into the experience and work.
Writer
Not so much but you cannot just run away from the
documentation of the system. One writer is enough, usually from female line.
Leader
You need a leader who will LEAD.
Don’t go for a member who you can’t trust and vulnerable of
getting jealous from achievement of other member.
However, this is just an ideal
kind of group. Rarely will you find a perfect team.
Thesis.... yeah, I can feel that.
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I've done several thesis (I mean, they outsourced me to code their system) and one of the most challenging part is the gathering of information. Parang ako na nag-thesis. "Information is everywhere, but you should know how to pick the right and eliminate the redundancies". Perhaps they are expecting me to conceptualize the whole idea for them... but "hey! I'm just an outsourced programmer. Ako na din kaya mag-defend anu?". Sometimes I feel unfair for them, because I realized that someday, "Panu itong mga batang ito when they are on the stage of applying and developing their career in the industry?". That's why I'm extending a little bit my responsibility to lead them but not to gather information haha..
Of course, they should do that for their own betterment at dapat lang so that they know what they are defending.
Aside from that, you expect a much lower price.. "student kasi". Way back college, money is not easy. I always put my foot on their shoe pa din kahit mayaman pa sila. Because in the first place, that is not their money.
But nevertheless, both side were benefited.
Thanks for dropping by Anon. I would appreciate it more if you somehow left a name. The school should focus on creating a good team rather than feeding students with lessons that might not be useful in the future someday. This will contribute in our economy and our country.
DeleteThey should not take InfoTech if they can't make those crucial part like making a program.
sorry its L.P
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