What
Semester 1 is about to end and I have gone through quite a lot throughout the whole period. The university life is packed with assignments, tests, quizzes and stuffs like that. They come one after another and there is no end to it. Yet, there are still times where I got the chance to have some quality me-time and hang out with my friend. University life is quite similar to working life; the different is that the world out there is far more cruel and harsh. Assignment make up a big portion of the thing I have done so far in university, and it is a great experience. Throughout assignment you can really know oneself deeply; their personality and working capability. Work division been done quite wisely for the assignment I involved in (as the leader) to let the team members do what they best at in order to fully showcase their potential and talents. Working with the right people will ease the process and I was lucky because after a few tries and errors I found a team that I can work comfortably with them. And UTM not only focus on hard-skill, they also concern about the soft-skill and this is why all these assignments exist. Video-filming and editing is the skill that I learned after I entered UTM and it also required some of the skills I learned before like Photoshop in some tasks in the assignments.
So What
Course like Technology and Information System is like a preparation for people with no knowledge in the computer science field like me. It’s a good warm up for the upcoming courses that we are going to take because it gives some exposures to us the ‘abouts’ of the course. One thing that cuts the most ice with me is the Design Thinking Project. I have no idea about this before I was introduced to it by my TIS lecturer. Design thinking is basically the process for creative problem solving. It plays a crucial rule in order to produce a product to really help to solve the problems facing by the targeted community. It provides the guidance and steps we can refer to when we are to come up with a solution.
Now What
It has been a pleasure and a fun journey throughout the assignment. The skill I acquired is really useful for me when I am doing the other assignment or maybe can apply it in my jobs and daily life. It gives me a new perspective of thinking and it emphasize on identifying the problem accurately. This world is full of surprises and challenges. Things that we never learn before or lack of understanding will occur out of nowhere. But by using the design thinking’s creative thinking way and the knowledge I have learned, problems can be solved step by step and stage by stage. Identify the core problem, break it down into small pieces and solve it one by one.