Warning: Depressing Content

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There they were, running up and down the campus stairs looking for their adviser. They were to submit a set of possible proposals on that day. A few minutes later, they found her on the faculty room taking her break. The tall eyeglassed student handed her a set of proposals to be approved and left as soon as she recieved them.

By the next day, as everyone entered their class, it came to their suprize that not one of their proposals met her standards for a thesis proposal. "These were all easy. Not even qualified for a thesis", she said. Everyone had to resubmit proposals again, leave one group, on which they find it to be really obvious on why. Weeks were spent just for the proposal but they were lucky that theirs had been approved early and so they decided to start.

Every saturday at 11am, they all go to 7-11 store to meet and head to the long haired student's house. They made formal letters addressed to different medical institutions to have their thesis approved. All they need was at least one institution that would be willing to cooperate with them for the development of the system. And after a month of waiting and following-up, they finally got one. They started interviewing the staffs and brainstorming for a possible change in their system and proposed it later on to the head. They were lucky, he approved the proposal and gave the signal for the system development and so they started.

While two of them are busy with the development of the system, the short haired student busied herself with the few first chapters of the documentations to be submitted. They followed the thesis format that was taught to them when they took up Thesis A. Upon submission, the adviser rejected it claiming everything they did were wrong and it should be revised. She took out a previews made thesis and show it at as example. Puzzled, they tried researching to see which one is correct. They found out that what their adviser gave them was not the proper way to make a thesis, yet, they followed her because she was the adviser after all. She kept on rejecting works that leads their entire class in confusion of which one is correct and not. When they come up to her to ask, she replies but she didn't actually answer your question, sometimes, she ignores student saying she is busy. Same things happened again and again until the submission of the system's 80%. Asiding the fact of busy schedules on their OJT, the students were able mangage submitting something somehow even though she is undeniably confusing and she doesn't know exactly what she wanted them to do. All these was made possible through a few considerate instructors that allowed them to borrow a few classes from them.

After 2 weeks, it's the submission of the system on it's 100%. The rule was, "If you did not submit on the specified date and time, 5.00 will be your grade." Students start to worry because they couldn't finish the system on time and they start to complain. They tried talking to the dean and thankfuly, she heard them and decided to take actions to it. She took charge of the Thesis B course in replacement. She had all the documentation submitted to her and returned them all to the student's the following day with full of red mark. They have to rewrite everyting from the start since a lot had change. The students were left with no choice but to take the risk. And so one after another, they stopped their OJTs to give way for their thesis. Some even resorted to skipping classes and some, dropping the course.

Energy drinks and coffee are what keeps this group awake for several nights. There were days that they bring their laptops at school and make them in their free hours inside the drafting room. They wanted to finish it before the submission and they did. Sadly, when the defense came, there were a lot of bugs in the system and they couldn't defend it well too. How can you defend something when you know in the first place that it is a system bug? And so they were given a second chance for redefense.

Within those 3 days of revising, they did not totally sleep to correct those bugs within the system. They had to recreate the entire database, but this time, easier since they already know the process and all they need to do is apply it. And the night before the redefense, the fucking laptop shut itself down. When they opened it, some .dll file got some error (bad sector or whatever) ruining the entire system. Although they have back-ups, most of those they had recently changed were lost. And so while working...

Eyeglassed student: Ngayon pa lang tinatanggap ko nang babagsak tayo.
Long haired student: *sigh*
Eyeglassed student: ...
Long haired student: Sa tingin mo papasa pa tayo?
Eyeglassed student: Do you want an honest answer or do you want me to say what you want to hear?
Long haired student: ...
Eyeglassed student: If you want an honest answer, then, we'll fail. But if you want my answer to be that of what you wanted to hear, then, we could finish this on time.
Long haired student: ...
Eyeglassed student: If we can't finish this on time, babaksak talaga tayo and I mean it.
Long haired student: I have exams tomorrow. Take not, they are already special exams.
Eyeglassed student: What time and what subject?
Long haired student: Elective 01 and WAN. Both from 9-12. At hindi pa ko nag-aaral.
Eyeglassed student: Mag-aral ka na.
Long haired student: Sabihin na nating may gana pa kong mag-aral, sa tingin mo ba eh may oras pa ako? I already risked so much for this, damn it.
Eyeglassed student: My best suggestion is you to study your lessons and leave this be. If ever na babagsak tayo dito sa Thesis B, at least papasa ka naman sa ibang subjects mo.
Long haired student: Think of it this way, this is your only subject. Wala na. Kung babagsak ka pa dito, you'll have to wait for the next tri with this subject for you to take this again. Another thing, think of Carol, she has good grades tapos, she'll fail this one? Kung sa akin, okay lang eh. Nasira na naman yung grades ko at nakuha ko na lahat ng kasermonan ni papa so I guess I can take another week of it.
Eyeglassed student: ...
Long haired student: This is our fault. WE should be responsible for our every actions. We could pull this through. We should.
Eyeglassed student: *sigh* Ang hirap ng standing natin.
Long haired student: I know...
Eyeglassed student: Sisihin mo tong laptop mo. (jokes)
Long haired student: Hindi akin yan, kay ahia (elder brother in Chinese) yan.
BGM: Stay the Same by Joey Mcintyre.
Eyeglassed student: Bagay sa atin tong kanta. Believe in yourself... you'll make it through... oh... *sings*
Long haired student: Yeah, lokohin natin ang mga sarili natin kahit ngayon lang. Palitan mo nga yan.
*few minutes later*
Long haired student: Hindi ko magawa yung gusto ni dean!! Kanina pa ko dito.
Eyeglassed student: Alin dun?
Long haired student: Yung list ng mga articles. Yung may permalink.
Eyeglassed student: Kaya mo yan. Hindi kita matutulungan diyan, hindi ko alam yan. Ikaw gumawa niyan eh.
*switch music*
BGM: Vanilla by Gackt
Long haired student: Ayan! Buti pa yan!
*few minutes again...*
Long haired student: Got it! Hahaha!
Eyeglassed student: Si Gackt lang pa la ang kailangan mo.
Long haired student: Haha! Gackt is my medicine. Inspiration ko yan.
Eyeglassed student: Sige, tuloy-tuloy mo lang yan. Malay mo, matapos natin to.
Long haired student: Hindi na nating matatapos to. Umaga na eh.
Eyeglassed student: *sigh*
Long haired student: Magtetest ako mamaya. Try namin kausapin si ma'am kung pwedeng extension.
Eyeglassed student: Kung hindi, patay tayo.
Long haired student: Habang nagtetest kami ni Carol, ikaw, uwi ka muna. Baka mangamoy ka na.
Eyeglassed student: Bakit ayaw gumana ng sessions dito?
Long haired student: Ay, nakalimutan kong palitan yan. Akin na.
*tech terms*

[To be continued...]