Who should not join KRG?

You should not join KRG if you satisfy any one of the following:

For Graduate Students

You don't know why you are pursuing a Ph.D./M.S. degree, e.g., if you are pursuing a Ph.D./M.S. because of any of the following reasons, we don't want you:

• Your parents want you to do a Ph.D./M.S.
• Your significant other is doing a Ph.D./M.S., you need to keep up
• Every one in your family has a Ph.D./M.S., so you figured "why not?"
• You want to find a job in Singapore
  • There is an extremely small (or zero) job market for home-grown Ph.D.s in Singapore, by the way.
• You eventually want to go to another more reputable University for your Ph.D.
  • OK if you wish to do a Master's with our group
  • Not OK if you want to do a Ph.D. while waiting for admission to another University
    • If you have such high aspirations, you should at least stick to your guns by waiting patiently for admission to the graduate school of your dreams
    • If you do not even have the courage to wait, you do not deserve a Ph.D.

For All Students (graduate and undergraduate)

• You don't know your goal in life, e.g.,
  • What do you see yourself doing in 5 years, 10 years?
• You don't know your interest
• You don't know why you are studying for a B.Eng
• You don't know why you are alive, e.g.,
  • You don't know what to do every day after waking up, other than playing games, surfing online aimlessly, matchmaking, etc.
• You don't understand the following mathematical statements
  • two events are probabilistically independent
  • two vectors are orthorgonal
• You cannot devote at least
  • 10 hours a week on your project (FYP, URECA)
  • 50 hours a week on your research (Ph.D., Masters, UROP)
• You are lazy
  • Go buy a lottery ticket instead, KRG is no place for the uninitiated
• You are not self-motivated
  • If you cannot solve problems by yourself but instead requires constant babysitting, then KRG is not for you. You should go to a daycare centre or hire a babysitter instead