Look at us.

UNIISYS covered three semesters in the making and during those times, a lot has happened which made us who we are now. We may not have achieved our desired professions for now but because of UNIISYS, we are stars. This is one giant stepping stone that led us to the discovery of one’s potential and our capability to conquer the impossible. Most importantly, we had our chance knowing ourselves more.
Life has its ups and downs. This is true for everyone who strives hard to make their goals become a reality. In the course of doing the integrated project, we had our own share of pain to endure and hardship to carry through. First, technology had its way of making us miserable. We were ought to learn web development for the first time in five years and before, not once we had been given a proper teaching regarding CSS, PHP and everything we need to know to implement a web-based system. For this reason, everyone had to start learning on their own. Second, we had our own differences. In every team effort, we were used to have our closest friends for our workmates and thus, there was no need for adjustments. But then like a sudden thunderstruck, the whole class became workmates for a single project. We had to work as a team. Maintaining this principle involved primarily of understanding each other’s way of life. We had different opinions, attitudes, perspectives and approaches to complete a task. It was a challenge to all of us on how these differences would unite us in bringing the best output as any teacher, parent and school executive could be proud of. Third, we were financially incapable of acquiring the best computer software and hardware for everyone to use with their respective assignment. We had to submit permission letters and coordinate with high-ranked people many times just to continue the class operation. On the other hand, we were blessed to have a strong heart and perseverance in winning over these difficulties. Intelligence could be a contributing factor but this was bound to be meaningless without solid determination and a positive attitude. Knowledge may be important in surviving through a project but people hold on to achieving something because of unity. It brings a result as great as one could not imagine. Being united made us understand each other’s weakness, help fellows up, and acquire knowledge a hundred times as we had.
A teacher once said, “I never teach them technology, I teach them discipline”. After hearing this, it made me think on what is really important. The world needs change. Technology improves the quality of living but what is for discipline? As I thought of it, it was indeed a very meaningful remark. There comes space shuttle, satellites, supercomputers, nuclear, artificial intelligence and more. Nevertheless, did our ways change? With discipline, we become people of values, integrity and will always be trusted in whatever given responsibility. Technology may bring a significant factor on how we deal with our lifestyle but putting our mind into basics, we really do not need it. Instead, we badly need this big D. Come to think of it, in order for a technology not to be a tool for destruction, it needs DISCIPLINE.
UNIISYS is us. Our lives will be forever entwined with this memory of having done the best thing. Others may say that it was only a very simple web application but more to that, it was a dream come true because in the beginning we thought it was impossible. Yet, we made it.