> by 10 years, you should definitely be post-candidacy. Yes sure, 10 years was perhaps a stretch. But anyone who has lived in the US pretty much continuously f

> by 10 years, you should definitely be post-candidacy. Yes sure, 10 years was perhaps a stretch. But anyone who has lived in the US pretty much continuously for 5 or 6 years (undergrad plus the first couple of years of grad school, or possibly at the end of an MIT MEng, which is often 4+2) is likely as integrated as they're ever going to be at that point. 5 years or 10 years doesn't really make that much of a difference: it's still going to have a huge impact on students who consider the US their home.