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A perpetual student, also known as a continual / continuous student (a sometimes used UK term) or professional student (though the latter term has more than one meaning in the USA), is a college or university attendee who re-enrolls for several years, typically more than what is necessary to obtain a given degree. Traits of or reasons for such behaviour include: * Time constraints (inability to devote full-time to studies due to a job or raising a family); * Indecision (changing one's major one or more times); * Inability to find a job; * Pursuit of more than one degree or major; * Inability to complete a final thesis or dissertation; * Student loans becoming due for payment once student status is lost; * Unwillingness to abandon the social aspect; * Desire to continue participation in extra-curricular activities, particularly competitive ones that require participants to be registered students; * Political organizing; and / or * Desire to avoid getting a job. Efforts to deter perpetual students include denying funding in the form of loans or grants to students beyond a certain time limit or already holding a degree of equivalent level to that the student wishes to study. ==Examples== * Johnny Lechner has been attending the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater since 1994. He was scheduled to graduate in 2008 with multiple majors and minors, but continued into a 15th year of college. * Benjamin Bolger, who received his first 4 year degree from the University of Michigan, claims to be the second most credentialed student in modern history, with twenty seven degrees. * Michael Nicholson has 30 degrees, including 19 master's degrees and one doctorate.〔(Twenty-seven degrees and counting: Kalamazoo man enjoys the 'freedom' of intellectual pursuits )〕 * Milton De Jesús has been a student at the University of Puerto Rico since 1963. Mr. De Jesús was recently interviewed by the newspaper, since he is the only student at the campus that can make comparisons among the 2010 student strikes and the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2005 strikes. It is not certain if he has a degree.〔El Nuevo Día year xxxx, vol14449 page 6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Perpetual student」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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