Re: Graduate School Advice

["Spyro" <spyromalas () veggiefest com>]

Do your best to get affiliated with a school that does work with the
government. E.g a school like carenegie mellon.  Once in, the government has
great work with cryptography, and from that I have heard from people who
work with the FBI etc, that this is the best place to learn.

Spyro Malaspinas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <securityfocus () delahunty com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>; "Justin Bronder"
<Justin_Bronder () umit maine edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Graduate School Advice


> 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.
>
>
> ----- 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
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> 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).
>
> My thanks in advance,
> Justin Bronder
>
>
>
>
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