My 500 Project Finale: Formatting & Fiasco

Since receiving feedback on the final draft of my project, I've been busy with all those last minute 500 project to-do's. The deadline to submit a thesis or project to Graduate Studies was May 8th, but I managed to get mine in by the 5th. Here's a brief look at what's been keeping me busy:

• Received feedback from my second reader at Calaveras Student Pick-up
• Made final grammar and punctuation revisions to my project
• Formatted my project following Graduate Studies guidelines - the Thesis Formatting workshop really did help
• Waited in line at Graduate Studies (about one hour) with the first 20 pages of a draft of my project
• Graduate studies gives me the go-ahead to print on the fancy cotton paper
  
• Made a nighttime visit to Kinkos to have my project printed on Strathmore 100% cotton paper, and to bind and print two additional copies for my Chair and Second Reader: about $30.00
  

• Attended the Calaveras Station Release Party to get my project signed by Graduate Coordinator (David Madden), Committee Chair (Doug Rice), and Second Reader (Susan Wanlass)
• Printed and filled out the Thesis/Project/Dissertation Receipt Form
  
• Paid the Microfilming and Binding Fee at Lassen Hall: $60.00
• Made three copies of thesis forms, signature forms and receipts at The Copy Graphics Center
• Took the stairs up to Graduate Studies because the elevator decided to break down on the most important and busy week of the semester
  
• Waited in line for 15 minutes
  
• Received a Receipt of Thesis/Project/Dissertation Submission with an official CSUS stamp
  
• Picked up Graduation robes on the third floor of the Student Union: cap, gown, tassel, hood $58.00
• Realized only right now, while photoshopping images for this blog, that Doug Rice did not date his signature on page ii of my project

Dammit. How could I have missed that?

So the question is: Do I go to Graduate Studies and ask them to add the date to my project, or do I pray they won't notice, bind the project, and then add the date a year from now when I check it out at the library?

Will I never be done?
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Special thanks to Robin Martin for graciously sharing her 500 project to use as a sample format for my own. Spoiler Alert: The following is a help email I drafted whilst figuring out how to tackle the project formatting monster. If you have not yet completed your project and still harbor romantic notions about the process, please feel free to skip the reading.

I used the Project (without copyright page included) Template because it seemed to work better for me. All the pages that precede text are in arabic, and afterwards in roman numerals. I was able to delete the Acknowledgments, List of Tables and List of Figures pages. At some point, I don't remember where, the formatting changed when I was deleting. I just kept an eye out for when that happened, and instead of deleting that page, I erased the text alone. Essentially I left the page blank, but to prevent page deletion and formatting change, I inserted a page break. I did this because if you keep deleting those unnecessary pages (List of Tables, List of Figures) the formatting becomes roman numerals. What I ended up with was:

• i First Title Page
• ii Sign off page by first and second reader
• iii Sign off page by Dave Madden
• iv Abstract
• v Table of Contents
• vi Blank page with page break (necessary because if deleted will mess with formatting)

When I print everything out, I will simply remove the vi blank page from the project. As long as these "blank pages" are at the end of the arabic pages, they should not alter the pagination. Also, the roman numerals where the text began did not get messed up.