Degree completes 95-year journey. Story about a 95-year-old receiving degree from Skidmore distance program -- completing 80-year pursuit of a degree. An inspirational story for BG15?
One must commend this senior citizen for earning the degree. As a side note, with 80 years of DL experience she could probably qualify for 15-20 doctorates from Trinity College/University. Seriously, this is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished when one disciplines oneself.
Makes our discussion on the other forum about getting a PhD in your 40s seem kinda silly, doesn't it... clint
Re: Re: DL success after 80-year pursuit of degree Greetings. Regarding: a) Wonderful?!? What is that chap going to do with his doctorate (other than be burried with it)? b) From the movie "Brain Candy": Scene: A television talk show featuring the scientist who invented a prozac-like drug. An elderly man stands to ask the scientist a question. He asks, "How can I become a scientist like you?" Pause. The scientist replies, "Stay in school." The audience cheers imbicilicly. N.B. Quotations are precise according to my memory, which is extremely imprecise. <g> Cordially, Richard Kanarek COSC student. Expected graduation date 2034 <g>
Re: Re: Re: DL success after 80-year pursuit of degree 1. Validate one's life work 2. Personal fulfillment 3. Wonderful example of perseverance and discipline 4. Maintain an active mind And one can also tell the resident in the next room (nursing home) that one has a doctorate. This should make for some interesting conversation.
Re: Re: Re: Re: DL success after 80-year pursuit of degree Dear Mr. Morris: Regarding our asynchronous conversation: ============================== ----------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by RKanarek Wonderful?!? What is that chap going to do with his doctorate (other than be buried with it)? ----------------------------------------------------- 1. Validate one's life work 2. Personal fulfillment 3. Wonderful example of perseverance and discipline 4. Maintain an active mind And one can also tell the resident in the next room (nursing home) that one has a doctorate. This should make for some interesting conversation. Russell A. Morris ============================== Lets take your retorts point by point: 1. If one needs ones life to be validated by (read with sneer) bureaucrats and academicians, ones time would be better spent hoping for re-incarnation rather than researching a thesis. 2. Okay. 3. Wonderful??? The man's graduation announcement and obituary are likely to appear in the same issue of his local newspaper and you call that wonderful??? Pray tell how your lexicon defines wonderful? <g> 4. Surely the chap could have maintained an "active mind" by doing more of whatever work he did during his 560 professional (dog) years of being a non-doctor. Alternately, he could have kept busy by sharing his years of wisdom with others, rather than writing a tedious dirge that, almost by definition, no one will ever read without being paid to do so. Regarding the later suggestion, I know he has at least one bit of wisdom to share: Don't wait 'till you're all but dead to finish your college education. If only the bugger had given me that tidbit back when it could have done some good! Also, I believe it is verboten to identify oneself as a doctor in a medical setting, unless one is a doctor of a medical persuasion. Cordially, Richard Kanarek P.S. Be not afraid. Neither my current occupation, nor my career aspirations involve geriatrics. <g>
