Warning: Depressing Content

AMA Angeles Campus Students with low self-esteem regarding their subjects, do not read this post. I won't repeat myself again on this. Read at your own will.

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What is MedRec?

MedRec the name of our thesis which is an online medical records management web application system. In short, it is a dynamic website on which our key highlight is that it handles health care center things such as the doctors schedule and medical records.

Locale

The thesis was granted with full permission for development by CyberCare, Inc. on which we are very thankful for the doctors and staffs for the cooperation during the interviews, surveys and dry run we conducted. The only problem is that it's located really far on which we need to ride 3 jeepneys just to get ourselves there. It would take us for about 2 hours of travel kept aside the fact that it is only open on Mondays to Fridays from 9:00am to 5:00pm on which we need to skip a lot of classes just to conduct interviews.

Documentation

Honestly, the documentation was first rushed because we spent most of our time in the system development. Our first documentation was covered with red mark and there was only one page of it that was left untouched by Dean Durias' red pen. And so I'm warning all of the students that will be taking their Theses and Software Engineering subjects, she reads them all - as in everything! Kaya mga pare, hindi lulusot yan. Shocking, but true. We managed to cut the red marks by half at our second revisions and hopefully a few pages left for editing on the third revisions. The documentation was the most costly part of everything. We only sent a few hundreds for the system but the documentation left us broke. Some of the reasons why are because of printing fees (cost so damn lot), computer rental and Internet fees, transportation, food and drinks, ring bind, book bind, etc.

The System

The system was made with PHP, HTML, MySQL, a little touch of JavaScript in a rundown Pentium 4 laptop that shuts itself down in midway of our coding. Since we were blessed with a worthless ex-dean, we hardly learned did not learn anything with our 3 years of stay at the campus and I wasn't exaggerating.

System Development

The system was developed at the comfort of my home with unending food rations. (Hah! Gluttony... gluttony...) We joke around a bit while making the system. If not, we'd go mad, I tell yah! Even until now, as you realize while reading, I'm still not in my proper mental state. We spent most of our hours in front of the computers and given only the lunch and dinner time for a short rest. RedBull, Extra Joss, and Pepsi X were our best friends through those cold nights where good night sleeps are not applicable. Under such circumstances, who would dare to sleep anyway?

Time Management

We are always behind schedules, we are always late in every possible aspects, and we always procrastinate. Enough said.

Body Break Down

We are not machines, we have our own limits. There came a time when we caught colds then fever, then flu. At the worst case, we caught them all at once. Randy-kun fell asleep at the jeepney and collapsed more than twice. Khei got sick a lot due to tiredness and lack of sleep. I got 2 bruises on both my knees because I fell off the jeepney twice when I collapsed. Even so, we still continued doing it.

[To be continued...]