Is It Bad to Earn All Degrees at the Same School?

[marlon]

The reason is competative advantage...If your competitors don't know you are doing something, they cannot get into the game and get ahead of you in securing external funding.

But this is NOT the point. I NEVER asked you to talk about the actual content of your work. I understand all of what you say hereabove but this is NOT a reason for saying : i cannot tell you where i work. It seems to me this is more your typical "i want to feel special be remaining secret"-type of behaviour.

To be clear, you have not yet provided us with a reason as to why you cannot reveal the name of the company you work for. Competition has nothing to do with that. We all know that Bill gates works for Microsoft but do you think we all knew what the newest Microsoft software was going to be in 1995 ?
i Mean, do you really tink that just by knowing Gates' name and the fact that he was/is a software developer, people were able to reverse engineer Windows 95 prior to it being released ? Ofcourse not, and this is a guy who is far more important than our entire community here,...,squared.

A nondisclosure policy is very different from a policy that requires denial that something exists...Anyone that does not work in that world does not understand it. Our restrictions limit our searches on the internet because if someone traced our usage and search records they may be able to reverse engineer what we are working on.

Well, can be but then i guess i should not have used the "non disclosure part" because in the company i work for (do my PhD in) we have the exact same policy as the one you have just outlined.

marlon

 

[Poop-Loops]

Question:

Let's say you are in fourth year and your are ready to apply to graduate school.

I was told that it is MUCH easier to get into the graduate school where you did you undergrauate since you should (hopefully) know most of the faculty.

It this generally true?

How is the application process to other schools?

I spoke to my physics advisor and she said she wouldn't accept anybody who did undergrad at the same school. :p