Finished MSISA @ WGU!

As of this morning, I have completed the MSISA program at WGU!

Not sure what is next. I like for others to pay for my education (GI Bill: thank you, taxpayers!) and am looking at Hazlewood options (Hazelwood Act - in TX, if you enlisted here, you get 150 hours of tuition FREE at any PUBLIC institution. None in my area so I am looking at online options.)

The oral defense was very anticlimactic - on 2 people showed up (my mentor was going t obut had a sick kid and couldn't) - Cindy and someone else I never heard of. I did my presentation and it was pretty much thanks, great job, goodbye. Not one single question or comment on the material.

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MSP-IT

Congratulations. That's quite an achievement. I hope to be in your shoes in just a few years.

da_vato

Congrats

I hope to claim the same in a year...

instant000

Congrats on completing! Some fall by the wayside, and lose stamina.

Hah. Anticlimactic.

When I did my defense, I got a lot of questions about my work experience, and only a few about my presentation. Well, they did ask a few application questions.

There were even a few questions about when the DoD would formally adopt NIST control standards. My response: I'm a lowly contractor, why would I know when? Seriously, that was not my response, I just gave some spiel about such-and-such is projected in such-and-such quarter of such-and-such fiscal year, per official guidance. I learned a long time ago to just stay in my lane, you know?

I tried to anticipate possible questions, and had pre-pared canned answers for ten or twenty hypothetical questions on a scratch piece of paper. I received maybe one question that was on the template, but I was ready for the rest simply because of how much I had read and researched for my project.

Hope this helps!

networker050184

Congrats man!

Asif Dasl

Congratulations!

colemic

instant000 wrote: »

Congrats on completing! Some fall by the wayside, and lose stamina.

Hah. Anticlimactic.

When I did my defense, I got a lot of questions about my work experience, and only a few about my presentation. Well, they did ask a few application questions.

There were even a few questions about when the DoD would formally adopt NIST control standards. My response: I'm a lowly contractor, why would I know when? Seriously, that was not my response, I just gave some spiel about such-and-such is projected in such-and-such quarter of such-and-such fiscal year, per official guidance. I learned a long time ago to just stay in my lane, you know?

I tried to anticipate possible questions, and had pre-pared canned answers for ten or twenty hypothetical questions on a scratch piece of paper. I received maybe one question that was on the template, but I was ready for the rest simply because of how much I had read and researched for my project.

Hope this helps!

Ha, my dad I either dazzled them with brilliance, or baffled them with bullshite.

da_vato

I forgot to ask, how long did the program take you from start to now?

MrAgent

Congrats!

colemic

I took 2 years, 2 months. But that includes 4 moves, and a year in Afghanistan. I could have been done on time/earlier if I wasn't so lazy.

coffeeluvr

Congratulations!!! I hope to be finished by 1/31/14...fingers crossed. Also, "THANK YOU" for your service to our Country!!!

NicWhite

Congrats!

Iristheangel

Congratulations! I hope to be you in 6 months!

Slithy

Major congratulations! That makes you one of the first of this forum to complete a WGU MS correct?

srabiee

Grats! I hope to start MSIT: NM early next year.

cyberguypr

Way to go! Congrats!

colemic

Slithy wrote: »

Major congratulations! That makes you one of the first of this forum to complete a WGU MS correct?

I can think of at least 3 or 4 that have off the top of my head (forestgiant (I think), instant000, valsacar, and red fox? (or something similar)... and thats just the ones that come to mind immediately, there have got to be more than that though.

I also got a cool shoutout on the WGU Texas blog... An Online, Military-Friendly University (they copped it from my speaker application, LOL)

I applied and interviewed to be a student speaker at graduation, should know sometime next week.

Speak up if you have finished so we can try to keep a running count going...

netsysllc

Congratulations, I have a little over a year to go myself

amcnow

Congratulations!!!

Like others have said, I hope to be in your shoes at some point. It's looking like summer or fall 2014 for me. Slow and steady wins the race...

N2IT

Nice accomplishment! Nice work Cole!

spiderjericho

Congrats on your accomplishment.

CoolAsAFan

Awesome man, congratulations!

DAVIS NGUYEN

Congrats

Chitownjedi

Congratulations!

Valsacar

colemic wrote: »

I can think of at least 3 or 4 that have off the top of my head (forestgiant (I think), instant000, valsacar, and red fox? (or something similar)... and thats just the ones that come to mind immediately, there have got to be more than that though.

I also got a cool shoutout on the WGU Texas blog... An Online, Military-Friendly University (they copped it from my speaker application, LOL)

I applied and interviewed to be a student speaker at graduation, should know sometime next week.

Speak up if you have finished so we can try to keep a running count going...

Heh, I'm not quite done yet... writing the paper now (should be done in about a month, if that). I should have been done earlier, but life/work got in the way... a year and a half still isn't bad though.

colemic

Apologies, I thought you had wrapped up already - I misread your sig block.