Is our approved proposal worth it? To be safe I'd say yes. Why? How we came up with this proposal began when we where task to create a milestone mainly said to create a team profile . We were task to create a paper for our team which includes the team's mission, vision and goals with a set of team guidelines, rules, and punishments for violating those rules. A day before the submission of the said milestone did we only know that we have to include the company that we have to adapt with their background. So we called an emergency meeting since not all the members of the team have classes that day. We first agreed that we'll "again" adapt the city library since one of our group mate has a connection with the city library. On submission our proposal was rejected since city library has been the subject of many system development projects such in the previous Software Engineering and Database Analysis and Design subjects. Maam Tammy challenged us to adapt a financial management system within the vicinity of the university. We, knowing that adapting an office for a system project within the university will take a lot of time since it involves the permission of lots of people. And not to mention a Financial System, that will REALLY be challenging.

So we ended up with the Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA). We went to their office and conducted an interview with their supervisor. Regarding a system they said that an automated payroll system is what they needed the most since they don’t have an automated one. After submitting the proposal it was finally approved. And that’s how we arrived with that proposal.

But is it worth it? Worth in a sense of a project for the subject. Like what i've said earlier the answer would be yes. Yes because the difficulty of the system is equally challenging to the capabilities of our team since we don't have an expert coder.
Is worth the four years of my learning here in the university? I would shamefully say no. It’s not worth it. All those subjects that I’ve worked my ass out to pass will not be put to use. Especially my math subjects which I failed almost every first take (huhu). All those efforts will be rendered useless.

My realization to this assignment gave me an idea of the conflict between survivability and pride. For me, ever since I learned how to program I always wanted to create something amazing, something that I would be proud of, like cool design/interface or puzzling algorithms. But then again reality hits me, will I be able to create such thing. that’s when the idea of survivability surfaces.
"If i proposed this complicated project will I be able to finish this?"

Having to choose between survivability (passing the subject) and pride (making something new/amazing/worth it), is experienced by most of us. It’s one way or the other. Being able to pass with a feeling of shame for taking the easy road or making something to be proud of but taking greater risk. For this subject we chose to survive.

For those who took the hard road.. we salute you!