On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:27:02PM -0800, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis last Thursday, I just need to do some changes to it and submit it and I am done.
Yey! Tag and release (the thesis, I mean)!
Congratulation.
G
PS: It seems to me that it was yesterday that you moved to the state. You didn't loose time with your PhD. Very impressive!
Thanks everybody. Gael, it feels like yesterday, but it's been 4 years ago. And I had an M.S. degree already from Prague which took 2 years, so the total time is 6, and I had to wait 0.5 years after finishing my M.S. and before coming to the US (paperwork), so this gives 6.5 years since finishing my B.C. degree. The average time for physics Ph.D. seems to be 5.5 years, at least according to [1], so I am 1 year late, but I had to overcome a few bumps along the way --- maybe I'll write a blog post later. Ondrej [1] http://physics.uchicago.edu/prospective/graduate/index.html