7 days till my lab

Posted August 8th, 2008 by bcarroll and filed in CCIE Security, IE Labs

So I have seven days until my lab in San Jose.  Its starting to get to the point where staying up till 2 am isnt holding my attention.  I feel like an extra hour of cramming at this point isnt going to help so I think I’m going into a mode where I want to make sure I’m well rested.  I dont know if thats the right train of thought.  Probably not.

Here is my plan though.  Any thoughts or adjustments you would make?

  • Fly to California today (my parents live there and I’m staying at their house until friday- NO WORK!)
  • Sunday I’m going to do an 8-hour lab and see how far I get.
  • Monday I’m going to review the IE 5-Day bootcamp CoD.  I took it back in March.
    • I plan on taking it just as if I were in the class.  I’ll Spend the morning listening to the lectures and the afternoon doing the lab work.  The bootcamp was like 3 days of morning lecture and lab work in the afternoon, Thursday being a MOCK LAB and Friday being the solution.
  • Thursday Afternoon I fly to San Jose.
  • Friday = LAB.

I really hope this is a good plan.  I still dont feel like I’m ready.  Ugh.

4 Responses to “7 days till my lab”

  1. uzik says:

    Belive in You! You’ll do it :)

  2. etherealmind says:

    it sounds like a good plan to me, reduce distractions and create mental space

    Best of luck

    Etherealmind

  3. bitbucket says:

    Starting Wednesday you shouldn’t be doing any full labs. If you want to read over your notes, that should be fine.

    Just stay focused, read the question (over and over), build, and verify.

    Good luck!

  4. Brandon says:

    @uzik, @etherealmind, @bitbucket: Thanks for the comments and the support guys!

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