I polished up my time-line this morning. It looks pretty good but pretty long. As I look back over it I am overwhelmed by the amount of work that I had to do to get to today. It does not feel like a lot of work but this time-line shows my daily persistence in the program. The amount of paralyzing worry that I worked through and the documents I have written over days and days of revisions are enormous. The lengthy emails and management of the situation with getting back to people and providing what was needed. It was like a full time software project. I have managed larger software projects with many more involved individuals that were less work. The amount of time that I had for other things in my life suffered. But, I know that It will be all worth it in the end. I post the time line at the end of this blog entry.

I am now working on the meat of the document. I have been making little notes to myself and organizing this text for a few days. Now organizing the little notes will be the task. Getting them all on one piece of paper and then ordering that same piece of paper over a couple of other pieces of paper. Then making a PDF and sending the document. I have one week until the document is due. I think that I can handle one more week of 4am mornings. By now it is old hat. I am productive at that time. The lack of sleep thing seems to be counteracted by the fact that I am waking for the day not extending the day beyond some already worked number of hours. All the best brain cells get used first in the morning when I am fresh.

The Time Line of the Last Year

Date	Description
02/09/2005	Ask for past exams examples to discovery anything new?
02/16/2005	Ask the graduate advisement office to view my past exam failure, told to contact my adviser
02/17/2005	A refusal by my adviser to help with an exam question because it was not in his area of expertise.
03/10/2005	Notified my exam application was received
04/08/2005	Day of 2005 Software Engineering Exam
06/08/2005	Notified that my exam results have been mailed to me
08/15/2005	Notified my adviser that my deadline for appeal was August 31st
08/17/2005	Told to send my appeal to the PhD committee...but I don`t know who that is?
08/17/2005	Request my adviser to send my appeal.
08/17/2005	Notified that my appeal of the exam will be handled after the fall quarter begins.
08/24/2005	Received contact information for PluS program (Director)
11/03/2005	First of multiple Visits to Doctor for Assessment
04/14/2006	Request report from doctor to be mailed to PluS, Advisement Office, Adviser
05/02/2006	Contacted PluS program about my doctor results of learning disability
05/05/2006	Doctor reply about delay in sending report because of office move.
05/26/2006	Release Form request from doctor
08/04/2006	Requested alternate way for reviewing the exams and was denied
08/28/2006	Notified by my adviser that he will be away from school during the summer and unable to work with me.
09/09/2006	First BLOG entry of DePaul Experience on http://endofdayexperience.blogspot.com/
09/12/2006	Finally, able meeting with director of PLuS program to create a plan
10/09/2006	Advisers refusal to work with me until there is a PluS program recommendation.
10/09/2006	PluS program suggests my adviser and I meet. Adviser refuses without a PluS program recommendation.
10/10/2006	Begin Daily Study Regimen starting at 3-4am for 3-4 hours before work
10/10/2006	Request to meet with my adviser on reviewing exam copied PluS program
10/10/2006	PluS program asks for the adviser to push forward on with a limited recommendation of test review.
10/12/2006	No response from adviser copied contact PluS program
10/17/2006	No response from adviser copied contact PluS program
10/19/2006	PluS program contacts adviser directly.
10/19/2006	Reminded my adviser of our meeting and that my intent was to go over BOTH exams
10/20/2006	Attended first meeting on teaching ISP121, first announced my interest.
10/21/2006	Visited adviser to review both exams. Told first exam was too old to review.
10/24/2006	Email thanking my adviser for reviewing my single exam with me.
10/24/2006	Contacted advisement office about exam being too old
10/24/2006	Academic Advisements responds that they DO have my first test.
10/25/2006	Adviser states that he believes we are finished reviewing exams and that there would be no more review.
10/25/2006	Notified my interest in teach ISP 121 was accepted/ask for Thursday night session
10/26/2006	Offered to pass on the review of the first test as an olive branch.
10/30/2006	Phone meeting with PluS program director
11/07/2006	Notify PluS program director of exam dates.
11/09/2006	Notified of my lab classroom assignment
11/14/2006	Ask PluS program to get ZED question thrown out on the basis that it has never been taught in any depth in any class at DePaul
11/30/2006	Attended Orientation for Teach ISP121 I do a sample lecture but not the right audience
12/13/2006	Sent Resume to office of employment
12/15/2006	Notified that I would be used for spring quarter rather than winder quarter ISP 121
01/03/2007	Told I was select to teach ISP121
01/15/2007	First contact with Study Group/Start of weekly meetings
01/21/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
01/24/2007	Told to contact employment office to do another sample lecture.
01/28/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
02/02/2007	Made contact with Computational Finance Professor before giving Sample ISP 121 Lecture.
02/02/2007	Second sample lecture with correct audience but I was then not selected
02/04/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
02/11/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
02/18/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
02/22/2007	Told I am scheduled for section 902 of ISP 121
02/25/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
02/26/2007	Told my section of ISP121 was can celled
03/03/2007	Emailed my exam application for my 3rd attempt at the exam.
03/04/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
03/06/2007	Notified advisement that of special requests for the exam in the absence of the PluS program director on my behalf.
03/06/2007	Told of new PLuS contact for working on my behalf
03/06/2007	Notified that the PluS program director would be `Out of the office for a while`
03/07/2007	Made contact with new PluS program contact
03/11/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
03/13/2007	New PluS program contact makes special requests for accommodation on exam
03/18/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
03/25/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
04/01/2007	Study Group for 4 hours
04/09/2007	Announce http://thestudent.fateback.com and http://endofdayexperience.blogspot.com to The World/Office of Advisement/PLuS/My Adviser
04/13/2007	Third Exam 2007 for Software Engineering