Grady Laksmono

Below is directly quoted from USC Viterbi School of Engineering Ph.D booklet:

“A student must pass the qualifying exam within four years of being admitted to the Ph.D. program. The defense must be completed within seven years of being admitted to the Ph.D. program (six if the student arrives with a relevant M.S. degree). “

It’s not surprising to me since many of other graduate program in other schools also have the same requirements in the term of time limits for Ph.D. students. I make this post as a reminder to myself and to anybody that wants to be reminded that there’s a “Time” limit. To me, time is one part that is most important in my life. Once it passed, there’s no way to go back and redo it.. In term of Physics, time doesn’t have vectors and thus it will always be positive…