From: Swaroop Potdar (swarooppotdar@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 11:13:05 GMT-3
Absoultely amazing !!!
Yours is a true dedication story!!! towards CISCO.
We are following suit...sooner or later...
ALL THE BEST!!
>From: "Walker, James - Is" <JWALKER2@PARTNERS.ORG>
>Reply-To: "Walker, James - Is" <JWALKER2@PARTNERS.ORG>
>To: "'Hoyle, Anthony (AL)'" <ALHoyle@dow.com>, "'ccielab@groupstudy.com'"
><ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>CC: "'anthony.hoyle@eds.com'" <anthony.hoyle@eds.com>
>Subject: RE: I finally Made it: CCIE # 13948
>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:24:23 -0400
>
>CONGRAZ!!!!!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>Hoyle, Anthony (AL)
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:30 AM
>To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
>Cc: 'anthony.hoyle@eds.com'
>Subject: I finally Made it: CCIE # 13948
>
>
>Whew!!!! What a nightmare. I just passed the lab this past Monday in RTP.
>This was my fifth attempt. On my fourth attempt, I missed it by
>1% I even asked for a re-score, and still missed it by .5%. I won't go
>into
>details about what happened, we have all seen the e-mails in the past, same
>story...almost. It seemed impossible, very difficult, but I came out on
>top. I
>too, was expecting to get that e-mail, and see the fail, and start
>wondering
>in bewilderment about what I barely missed, but not this time. Great does
>not
>explain the feeling. How I made to RTP..well that have to tell you about:
>
>I am from Rochester Hills, MI (Near Detroit) , and was flying out of
>Lansing.
>The flight was from Lansing to Chicago, and from Chicago to Pittsburgh,
>then
>from Pittsburgh to Raleigh, NC. Well, of course United overbooked most of
>the
>flights. When we landed in Chicago, the plane going to Pittsburgh
>was boarding (what?) I couldn't believe it. SO we missed the flight, now
>were
>standby (worse than coming in 3rd place in a contest) We barely caught a
>flight
>to Pittsburgh. Now...we are in Pittsburgh, and all of the flights going to
>Raleigh,NC are overbooked by at least 11 people (mind you it is almost 9pm
>at
>night)
>I was almost at the point of breaking down (given the fact we are still 11
>hours
>away from Raleigh, and it is not looking good) We (me and my wife) managed
>to
>get two seats
>going to Charlotte, NC (as close as United could get us and because two
>other
>people missed their flight). We get to Charlotte...but oh -by the way
>Charlotte
>is 3 hours away from NC. Soooo..
>we hitch hiked to Raleigh (since all my credit cards were maxed (from
>taking the
>lab a few times this year and who knows what else) and made it there at
>about
>2am.
>We arrived at the Wingate at 2am. I had to wake right back up at 6:30am,
>and
>go take the lab at 7:15am. There goes that whole "get a good night's rest
>before the lab"
>plan out the window. I almost decided back in Pittsburgh to just go home
>and
>call it a day. But I kept going -very happy now :) After going through
>that
>experience, if Cisco even considers having a remote CCIE lab, I will rally
>and
>picket outside of CISCO /w
>big signs -hee hee hee hee :)
>
>I said to myself: If I didn't pass this time, I was going to change
>careers. I
>kept questioning myself, what's wrong with me? Maybe this isn't for me?
>The CCIE is attainable (obviously from all of the talent on this list) but
>you
>have to have perseverance and dedication.
>
>What's next?..well I haven't seen my wife and kids (like I should) for the
>past
>two plus years..I also just got this new X-Box game yesterday called
>burnout 3 (wow that game is awesome). & I m' catching up on a few movies.
>I
>can't help it though....now I'm reading the Cisco call manager
>Fundamentals and Troubleshooting Cisco IP telephony. I went through all of
>the
>AVVID classes at CISCO last year..but that didn't do me too much justice..
>I am so use to staying up all night and studying, and on the rack, I don't
>know
>what to do now?
>
>Oh yeah, I just want to chime in about that thread we were all reading a
>while
>back, about the guy forgetting his CCIE number. HA! I would probably
>forget me SSN or, even my home phone number, before my CCIE number. That
>was an
>interesting thread though :)
>
>
>Thank you group study for letting me participate in this list, and all of
>the
>great comments from everyone who answers questions all of the time
>(Scott Morris and Brian that sticks out in my head), as well as all of the
>other
>great contributors on this list. I'm here now :) *
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Anthony Hoyle, CCIE #13948
>EDS
>Infrastructure Specialist
>anthony.hoyle@eds.com
>
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Regards,
Swaroop.
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