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Re: What job did you have before you became a technical communica tor?
Subject:Re: What job did you have before you became a technical communica tor? From:Tom Galloway <tyg -at- panix -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:25:07 -0500 (EST)
At 01:06 PM -0700 2003-11-24, Stitzel, Ken wrote:
>(ObReference to "Doorways in the Sand" by Roger Zelazny, whose hero was an
>acrophiliac who had been a full-time undergraduate student for 13 years,
>changing majors before actually graduating in anything, thanks to a generous
>stipend from the estate of a rich uncle.
Spoiler for an event midway through the book:
I always liked how this situation got resolved; the government applied
pressure on the school to graduate him, and it turned out that it was easier
to give him a Ph.D. than an Bachelor's. He'd submitted a book to the
university press which they counted as his thesis, decided his coursework
in the various foreign language departments satisfied that requirement, and
since the majority of what'd make up his committee had taken classes with him
or the like, they passed him on the basis of personal experience and reading
his "thesis".
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