tenured graduate student

tenured graduate student

(job)One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (theusual maximum is 5 or 6): a "ten-yeared" student (get it?).Actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginningin his seventh year. Students don't really get tenure, ofcourse, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduatestudent has probably been around the university longer thanany untenured professor.