Optimality

One of the primary objectives of an industrial engineer is achieving optimality. You need to learn how to observe that job at hand and what is around you and find the best way to do it with maximum profit and minimum waste. I know it sounds rather simple and cliche, but when you find yourself stuck in the middle of a simplex table and you have no clue what's going on, you tend to realize that it is neither.

Anyway, there's this particular course called Operations Research (which is rather depressing, not because it's hard, but because the lecture marks exam papers with a dagger dipped in blood, if you catch my drift) which deals with all the optimality stuff. Now, to do such and evaluation, you need all the variables. How much raw products you need to buy, how much time is takes to make your product, how long the machine can be used, etc. But there are some cases where you don't have these variables, and you just pretty much just need to wing it. And believe it or not, there are equations for winging it. You won't always get the optimal solution but you get one that's pretty close.

Everyday, we try to find ways to make the most out of life. We do everything we possibly can to get ahead. But none of us can see the future and it can become depressing sometimes when you find yourself without the necessary variables to figure out what the next best move should be, and you feel like giving up. But in cases like that, you need to wing it. You may not make the absolutely best choice, but your efforts would inevitably something rewarding. So trust try and push forward no matter how obscure the future may be. Some may call it blind faith, but if you can see something, then it doesn't take any faith to believe in it.

Good luck to all my friends who are studying for finals and I hope to see you tomorrow!