tenured graduate student

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tenured graduate student - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

tenured graduate student - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  tenured graduate student
   n.
  
     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.