21-03-2026, 01:39 PM
(21-03-2026, 01:23 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In medieval ages there was a whole "subculture" of "eternal" students or failed students and failed clergymen. ... You had similar guys in quite modern times. There were some of them in the 1970s and 1980s although today they are somehow less popular. They were studying not to get the diploma and go to work but for the sake of studying, having fun, partying and delaying growning up and going to work. They could study for 10 years or so, starting new faculties and dropping unfinished ones.
I know that type... I took almost 6 years to get my Masters, then 9 years to get my Ph.D.
I turned in my Ph. D. thesis three days before the absolutely definitive deadline of the last extension I could get.
But I should not have rushed. Another student of my advisor, who started his Ph. D. on the same day I did, beat me by two days. Darn.
All the best, --stolfi