[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

tenured graduate student n. one who has been in graduate school for 10
   years the usual maximum is 5 or 6: a `ten-yeared' student get it?.
   actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning in his
   seventh year. students don't really get tenure, of course, the way
   professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student has probably been
   around the university longer than any untenured professor.

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

tenured graduate student
     
         one who has been in graduate school for 10 years the
        usual maximum is 5 or 6: a "ten-yeared" student get it?.
        actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning
        in his seventh year.  students don't really get tenure, of
        course, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate
        student has probably been around the university longer than
        any untenured professor.
     
        jargon file
     
        1996-09-27
     
     
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