Re: Graduate School Advice

["Justin Bronder" <Justin_Bronder () umit maine edu>]

   Ah, but you all seem to ignore the fact that I'm going to school in Northern Maine.  We don't exactly have the 
connections to any sort of security jobs on campus that a school in say, civilization, might have.

-JB


mark.bradley () zurichlifeus com writes:
> And you could have the company that you work for, pay for your graduate
> school...  ;-)
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> Why not consider working in the "real world" for a bit before you decide on
> your choice of graduate study?  That would give you a better feel for what
> you want to do with your life and thus drive a better more informed
> decision
> on graduate school.  You could easily jump into graduate school and study a
> field that turns out is not all that interesting to you later.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Bronder" <Justin_Bronder () umit maine edu>
> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:22 AM
> Subject: Graduate School Advice
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> Greetings,
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> I've been lurking around the bugtraq list for quite a while and in this
> time
> I've found that I was indeed correct in my assumption that my interest in
> computer science lay within the world of security assessments and
> cryptology.  As I will be
> graduating with a degree in mathematics in December, I've realized that
> I've
> put off my research into graduate programs in New England and in the OR, WA
> area perhaps a bit too long.  This being said, I'm hoping that a few of you
> who have 'made it'
> in these fields could impart unto me a bit of advice about various schools
> and programs in these regions that I might look into.  If this message is
> too off-topic, I apologize, however I could not think of a better forum
> within which to ask for such
> advice, the professors at my university are a bit unhelpful.  A few of the
> schools I'm considering include:  UW, Portland State, UMass Amherst, SUNY
> Stony Brook, MIT, Northeastern, UC Boulder, Boston University, and my home
> university of UMaine
> (where I'd probably stay within the m
> athematics department and work with those specializing in number theory).
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> My thanks in advance,
> Justin Bronder
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