A ProfessionalStudent is someone who appears to be making a career of post-graduate education, by remaining in doctoral program(s) long after all of his/her colleagues have matriculated, left for the RealWorld, or died.

Or perhaps one, like myself, who considers that Education
Is LifeLongLearning and continues taking courses even after receiving degrees.
-- DonaldNoyes.200809181859.m06

''You'd be an EternalStudent. Big difference.''

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