Reflection
I don’t know how will I start my reflection but let me narrate to you what transpired on my whole OJT term.
One thing I realize is that, it is difficult to look for an OJT company that will welcome us Information Systems as well as Computer Application students. Yes, IT people are in demand but not all companies have an opening with regards to internship in their Information Technology department. Maybe we’re looking for an established company that we can be proud of and that we can inscribe on our Curriculum Vitae. To tell you, I overlooked at this. When I was on my intern company I suddenly realize that I am not working for a multi-national company that others came up having. Well its okay, I told myself everything has a reason why it happened.
On our OJT Company I together with Ivy and Paul served as the team leaders of the whole OJT group. J I think we were chosen to be one due to the fact that we are the one who are doing our task swiftly and can deal with our time correctly. We are actually building up Google analytics-like system for the company which they will be using to track and administer data gathering and statistics to their main development platform which is FreeTxt. As a team leader, I am responsible of the team’s performance, how well they are doing with their task and if ever help them on their duty. At first I love what I am doing but as we are getting tied with our work it seems that I am tired of the same system. Well, we did that system for almost 2 months that we can actually do it for about 2 weeks 3 weeks. The reason is that we have the system that their server cannot sustain. We cannot change our analytics system because we know we did the simplest way how to do it. They just let us connect to different servers with different database format, which we need to, redo all our codes. I did enjoy my stay there but not so well. As far as the concepts are concerned we had a lot of PHP on our intern company and we applied it well. Actually concepts on PHP development aren’t strong yet on our batch but I know we don’t need to be spoon feed with information regarding those matters. I personally learned a lot on PHP development after I did my intern. I did some research on some parts of the system we are developing, I actually find it hard at first to development using that web language but after that I did well. For me, Sir Dave did a great job instilling us the value of open source on our WEBDEVT and EBIZ subjects. I am proud that I am able to share my talents to my intern host and that I practiced what I’ve learned in the academe. Being an intern is a challenge, challenge that you should face. I am proud of myself for being able to put into practice what I’ve read from my secondary years through my college years and by being a nice servant-leader which my alma mater Don Bosco Technical Institute instill to their students which my intern company have seen that I am equipped with, being able to serve while leading. For me, having an internship experience is important for those undergraduate who will soon establish their own name and career. For being out of the college for quite some time will carve up your experience and may teach what will happen to you after you leave your school. For I know that you cannot learn everything in school but you will learn majority of it when you’re in the field in this case putting up or having an internship program in an academe will let their students hone and learn more about what they’ve had when they were in the academe.