Is Age Just a Number for Earning a PhD?

[wildman]

Peter Smith at the UA just earned his PhD in Optical Science 35 years after earning his masters. See:

http://arizonageology.blogspot.com/2009/05/ua-mars-explorer-to-complete-phd-3.html

So please all you youngsters of 25 or 35 or 45 or 55... quit complaining about being too old and GET TO WORK!

 

[hagopbul]

thanx

 

[cmos]

Don't most (all respectable) schools have an ~8 year time to complete advanced degrees? I wonder if he just kept filing leave of absence forms for the last 35 yrs?

 

[Saladsamurai]

Don't most (all respectable) schools have an ~8 year time to complete advanced degrees? I wonder if he just kept filing leave of absence forms for the last 35 yrs?

Well, since University of Arizona is a respectable school, I would presume the answer is no.

 

[wildman]

Don't most (all respectable) schools have an ~8 year time to complete advanced degrees? I wonder if he just kept filing leave of absence forms for the last 35 yrs?

Actually he took 30 years off from school. He wasn't working on his PhD for thirty years. That WOULD be crazy.

 

[ronaldor9]

LOL at whoever thought he was working on his PhD for 30 years, hahahaha imagine that--
A monstrous 100000 page thesis.