Perpetual student

Examples

• Johnny Lechner attended the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater from 1994 to at least 2005. He was scheduled to graduate in 2008 with multiple majors and minors, but continued into a 15th year of college.
• Benjamin Bolger, who received his first four-year degree from the University of Michigan, claims to be the second most credentialed student in modern history, with fourteen degrees.
• Michael Nicholson has 30 degrees, including 19 master's degrees and one doctorate.
• Milton De Jesús has been a student at the University of Puerto Rico since 1963. De Jesús was recently interviewed by the newspaper, since he is the only student at the campus that can make comparisons among the 2010 student strikes and the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2005 strikes. It is not certain if he has a degree.
• Bruce Berry, notable for being a school crossing guard having retired from a career including technical document translation for Agfa-Gevaert, working for the Post Office, and teaching, took his first degree from Manchester University in 1963, and continued to study from the 1970s onwards, coming to possess several further Bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as a Ph.D from Leeds Metropolitan University; he died before gaining his twelfth degree, another Ph.D. Fluent in several languages, he was also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

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