I just got accepted to UC Irvine graduate school

[IEC]

Congrats, getting in to schools is a really great feeling 🙂

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Congrats!

Great username by the way 😉

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Nice UCI is down the street from where I live.

 

[Cooler]

Best of luck, I only went for a masters in CS myself.

 

[Parasitic]

Congrats.

UCI is great - enjoy socal!

 

[KarmaPolice]

physics...better u then me buddy lol

 

[SonnyDaze]

Congrats and good luck!! :beer:

I remember getting my PhD back in 1984. (That's my Public High School Diploma) 😀

 

[0]

Congrats.

Of course, you may find a girl and decide to move to Berkeley and sell hippie t-shirts, but hey, who know!?

 

[Imported]

Congrats! Did my undergrad there and had a blast. I heard they're opening a law school soon which I might be interested in applying to.. :x

 

[gotsmack]

5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

 

[DAWeinG]

Grats fellow anteater! Zot zot!

 

[James3shin]

congrats! I'm playing the application game soon.

 

[Tiamat]

Rule number 1: Never ever give conjecture of your graduation, it will jinx you.

Nice deal! Have fun, its gonna be a long tough ride, but in the end, it will be worth it. Ph.D in physics goes a long ways.

 

[McGyver]

so, does that mean in another 20 years, u'll be able to figure out the TOE??????

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

guess i'll have to give a shout out to my fellow anteater's.

Under Construction Indefinately.

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: cHeeZeFacTory
guess i'll have to give a shout out to my fellow anteater's.

Under Construction Indefinately.

That's ending soon. BH is completed. Student center opens fall quarter. Biosci opens in a year. I have no idea wtf they're doing near the engineering plaza..

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

You really think 5-6 years is optimistic?

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

and what do you want us to say? That your school is super hard?

Bingo: many schools are like that.

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

You really think 5-6 years is optimistic?

about 8 sounds right. Talk to the chair of the department for the average.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

You really think 5-6 years is optimistic?

about 8 sounds right. Talk to the chair of the department for the average.

Ours is 5.5 last I checked and considering that we only have 7 years from entry into the grad department to get our degree, I doubt it varies too much from 6.

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

and what do you want us to say? That your school is super hard?

Bingo: many schools are like that.

??? I went to a middle of the road school for my undergrad and master. Getting into a named PhD program is a cause for celebration, even if you drop out theres no shame in it.

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

You really think 5-6 years is optimistic?

about 8 sounds right. Talk to the chair of the department for the average.

Ours is 5.5 last I checked.

Its different from school to school. As an additional point, take into account the time you'll be doing post doc work.

I know this is a different field but my friend who dropped out of a Poly Sci PhD at UCLA said that the average was 7 years and 1/2 of the class doesn't make it.

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: postmortemIA

Originally posted by: gotsmack
5-6 years, I see you're very optimistic.

I once met a guy who spent 18 years getting his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M

That is hardly a significant majority.

You are correct. A good portion of them drop out before they can finish their thesis.

You really think 5-6 years is optimistic?

about 8 sounds right. Talk to the chair of the department for the average.

Ours is 5.5 last I checked and considering that we only have 7 years from entry into the grad department to get our degree, I doubt it varies too much from 6.

Are you sure thats for the PhD? The programs I'm familiar with allow only allow a few years to do the course work and pass the qualifying exam, but allow forever to do the thesis, provided you still register with the school for a set amount of credits (usually very low).