This morning we are surprised due to an announcement that there will be an afternoon face-to-face class. We are required to attend or else we will miss the activity. That's the reason why I immediately prepared everything inside the house. I cook for their lunch and prepared myself. There's a new regulation in school that we are required to wear a collared shirt and have a short haircut.
I already have my haircut a few days ago but my barber isn't that good at cutting hair that's why I ended up having bangs. Though having short bangs is suitable for my appearance but when I came to the entrance of TUP this afternoon, the lady guard stopped me cause I don't have a proper haircut, which leaves me no choice but to spend money to have a haircut again. Gladly, I found an open barbershop inside a tenement building and let the barber remove the bangs.
I spend money that is supposedly for my food but it leaves me no choice. After that the guard let me go inside but they check my ID, vaccination card, waiver form, and my bag before I go inside. They are so strict, maybe because it's an order they need to follow. When I successfully enter inside, I immediately took a photo of the Logo of TUP.
The campus is very unique among different urban universities in the Philippines cause there are lots of trees around, the main reason behind it is because the campus is located near the airport that's why trees are planted around to absorb the sound vibration came from planes engine, it reduces the noise traveling to the ground.
Another thing is, it isn't wide if you'll look outside but you'll be surprised how massive it was inside. The campus is under construction since there are other buildings currently in making. The cafeteria is also massive and there's a vast space for students to hang out during free time, you'll feel the nature vibes and it's so cold around even if the sun is scorching hot.
I decide to go to our room that located in an Italian building. That building is only for the electrical and allied departments and every department had its building. I thought that I'm late but I saw my classmates busy doing their stuff. Suddenly our professor enters and explains to us what we gonna do, and guess what we will simulate using our Arduino and breadboard the traffic lights.
We all know that traffic lights are coded whether they will turn green, yellow, or red base on the timeframe coded on those lights. In that matter, the traffic is well organized due to traffic lights and guess what, it's such a hard task for us. We don't have any schematics to follow, our professor only gives a description we need to analyze, at the first 30 minutes we've done nothing but try analyzing the descriptions.
We focus first on making the paper including the objectives, materials, front page, etc. Then I try to apply the description on the breadboard, it's such a difficult task once the problem isn't simplified and no truth table to follow. My classmates manage to create schematic diagrams and we base them on those schematics and then apply them to our breadboard.
I'm so haggard at that moment cause we are on trial and error, we need to light up the LED bulb but we always made a mistake, a single error could lead to a disaster that's why remembering the connection is a must. I don't know what I'm doing, I'm relying on schematics and doing some experiments.
My classmates also joked that once the LED bulb light up then we can consider ourselves logic circuit masters. We start the activity at 2 PM but we aren't finished even if it's already 5 in the afternoon, we are pressured cause the professor wants us to pass our breadboard and paper.
I'm so close to finishing the activity but I don't have enough time, I pass it even if it's not yet finished. It made me weak and disappointed in myself cause I didn't make it on time. My partner asked me if I finished it but I answered it with a sad tone, she still cheers me up and said it's okay, by the way, she made our paper and I'm on doing the circuit but sadly I didn't finish it.
Lots of us didn't finish our circuit, and I'm nervous about how I'm gonna explain our work cause it was not finished but in the end, we discover that all of us didn't manage to do the correct schematics which leads us to the wrong circuit.
I don't know what I'm gonna feel, should I feel happy cause we are all wrong or feel sad cause our work is wrong which may lead us to low grades. However, I'm sure that we've done our best but it's still not enough, maybe we will regain our loss in the next activity. We will try our best on the next task, hoping that it's not master the level task.
