Week 5 Step 5 - Future, what will it hold?

 

Part 1: Support and Comment on Teammates’ Goals

Comment on Yusra: https://yusraasharonline.blogspot.com/2024/09/weekly-learning-reflection-september_24.html

Comment on Tariq: https://tk-csumb.blogspot.com/2024/09/week-4.html

Comment on Jason: https://jasons-csumb-journey.blogspot.com/2024/09/cst-300-week-4.html

 

Part 2: Possible Capstone Ideas

After viewing the presentation on Capstone, I feel eager and ideas just popping out from my mind. Here are four projects among them:

-          “Wealth and War” strategy game: A turn-based strategy game combining two elements of Civilization series and Total War series, I also add in many unique ideas to make my game different. Even though it’s an ongoing personal project, it’s not well-polished and scrappy build. Therefore, I will rework on everything and on a different civilization (China instead of Japan) to make it fair. This is the career goal I desire the most, and I want it to be a remarkable goal as being my graduated project.

-          A tabletop game on PC: An unnamed turn-based strategy game that I came up to play with my friends while in middle school. Rolling dices, using support cards, spending resources, expanding economy and military, are what gameplay will have. I planned to have this as a multiplayer game, but it goes nowhere without the first build. That is why I want to use the capstone project as an opportunity to craft this idea.

-          “Check and Balance” Grading System: Couple years ago, there was a massive scandal in Vietnam in education system. The teachers, together with students and their parents, cheated to change scores on the graduate exams. So, I came up with this idea: the exams are taken on computer and grade anonymously. It has the name “check and balance” because the system has three departments, similar with U.S government “check and balance”. This one will be much more complicated than video game projects, but I think I can give it a try and build a prototype.

-          Drones Surveillance System: this is another one of my ambiguous projects, and it’s definitely not easy. A system to scan any area, building or complex (inside or outside) to create 3D model and then control surveillance drones to patrol automatically. This project means to improve the security level while reducing the workload of personnel. This is my last choice not because I don’t like it, but because this is such a massive project I’m afraid I cannot complete just in time.

Part 3: Learning Journal

            Capstone project, internship, graduate school, even a book of self-help, there is more work than what my teammate said. My workload makes me exhausted every week (I get used to it), but seeing a good grade and feeling motivated chasing my goals again, that’s a tradeoff I’m willing to take. As I usually say, there is no such thing as perfect plan, and this week I recognized there are many gaps in mine that I need to fill out. I decide to revise my plan again as well as thinking about internship and graduate school. It’s hard to vision yourself in 2026, studying major courses, working on capstone project, and working on internship. I also plan for a master’s degree in the future to help secure my job at workplace. But that’s only happen if at that time, my workload is less for me to focus on getting a master’s degree. Again, it’s hard to visualize it.