Anxiety ended….

It is with pride and honor that we defended our thesis today. It is a thesis of two proud CS students. It is an accomplishment many times harder than my experience in assembly language programming. A fulfillment of what I’ve learned in College…actually much more.

It is 4 hours after we received the verdict from our panelists – “PASSED WITH REVISION”. I am currently expressing my joy and gratefulness for our rewarded effort. Yes, there are revisions…but only minor ones, just some polishing in our final document and user manual. At least from this on, we will be able to breathe normally. Given that we would already graduate as long as we finish our thesis paper and requirements in our other subjects.

Thank you Lord for allowing these things to happen, for giving us the chance to work on BlueVoice system, for the strength and inspiration to pursue this project, for the skills and talents you’ve given me, for the health to be able to continue working and for the people who became part of our thesis.

To my family: I’m so sorry that I’ve been delaying my responsibilities. But despite that, I know you’ve strived trying to understand the hardships that I was undergoing. Well… I hope you are proud of what your daughter had achieved. I offer my success to you!

To my partner, Marlon: Without you this project would never exist. It all started with your wildest idea…close to insanity. And I am likewise insane that I got attracted with it. But good thing it happened! We made it! It is not impossible after all! Thank you for working hard with me. We owe our success to ourselves!

To JC: You helped us conceptualize the idea of achieving the goals of our thesis. For the remarkable PowerPoint design, for the icon of the BlueVoice application, for the initial research document and for the encouragement.

To Miss Ebony Domingo: Despite your busy schedule, you have tried to make yourself available for consultation, contribute valuable ideas to come up with this application, provided us with some useful reading materials, and given us constructive criticisms and encouragement.

To our adviser, Engineer Eugene Kanindot: For attending our need for a workplace to work together, for the emotional support, for reading our document, and most especially for making me feel confident of myself.

To our co-adviser, Engineer Ryann Elumba: You were the first one I’ve consulted of this idea for a possible thesis project and that day pushed me to decide to work on this. For patiently proofreading our document and for the Bluetooth dongle that made it efficient to test our application.

To our panelists, Sir Gallardo, Sir Greg and Sir Al: For giving us the chance to work on this project and for driving us to do our best. The system would really be nicer if we were not limited with the hardware. Just wait, I’ll be engineer someday!…hopefully

To my CSIT friends: For thy encouragement, it motivated me to go beyond what I thought was my limitation. For criticizing our work, that helps us make clear of how our system was progressing. And for simply being there everyday that makes life beautiful during my days of discouragement.  

Sometimes, we need to gamble with what we believe in. Life is uncertain, it is a constant gambling game. It takes courage to pursue our dreams. Courage however is not the absence of fear, but fear with the commitment for fighting what you believe in. The road towards achieving our dreams is rough, it is not easy to reach its end. But with perseverance and positive view on life, almost anything is possible.

Thank You to All!