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it's not without oxygen, it's unpressurized - and in heights like 10km / 30k ft, you'll pass out pretty fast. According to my ground school instructor, it's ~30-60 seconds. Glad you got out without any serious harm.

Hi Cory,

unfortunately I have nothing to contribute to the protest, but: thanks for your books, I really enjoyed Little Brother & will read For The Win as soon as I find some time. :)

Do some of you hold a PhD by any chance?

I'm currently working part-time as research assistant at my school's systems security department (you've heard of their work) where I could probably begin a PhD. I'm also currently interviewing for security engineering positions (I have a background in software / CS) at a few companies.

When would it make sense in your opinion to go to grad school? What options would I have should I get a PhD which I wouldn't have otherwise?

I'm pretty torn between going into the industry and academia currently. :( Working on actual products sounds quite nice but if I'm totally honest with myself, I don't care about finding buffer overflows in developers' code or designing secure APIs, I'm much more interested in researching new mitigations and techniques. Going into school, I was pretty sure I would become an engineer (I'm definitely not a technician / support / operations guy), now I'm not sure anymore whether that's still what I want to do and research sounds much more appealing. :(

Any thoughts?

Thanks, see you at BSides LV or DEF CON! :)

I always try to thank those who served

Just a curious & ignorant European here: How does this support your vets?

Started with 17 and I already felt pretty young and it was a bit hard to get in touch with others. Any bad experiences with other students so far because of your age? What do you like the most at university compared to (high) school?