ACCEPTED into Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity!

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It's a little early to say, only being about two and a half weeks in... But so far it's surprisingly smooth. Other than a more considerable amount of reading, these courses don't seem all that different than an undergrad course. That being said, I'm taking two intro courses basically, so I know it won't stay that way forever.

The first project for the IIS course is pretty complex though. I don't have a Comp Sci background so I'm a little behind the average student in the program probably, but I've gotten it mostly figured out. In addition to a paper explaining some concepts that we're learning, I have to write a buffer overflow exploit for a provided vulnerable application. It took me a while to figure out, whereas I'm sure it was a bit easier for those with the CS background. I think I'm good to go on that part. Now I need to stop being lazy and write the rest of the report.

the Policy class is insanely simple. The lectures are very very short every week, followed by a considerable volume of reading, but not necessarily difficult reading. The first project for this course revolves around phishing, and could literally be done in an hour or two... except that it's a group project 

As I'm sure everyone has experienced with group projects, it takes every simple task and turns it into a whole ordeal. So the project will become a 2 week long slog.

But overall I'm surprised how good it's been going, but I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.