tenured graduate student

job One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the

usual maximum is 5 or 6): a "ten-yeared" student (get it?).

Actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning

in his seventh year. Students don't really get tenure, of

course, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate

student has probably been around the university longer than

any untenured professor.

[Jargon File]

(1996-09-27)