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Very odd to me to see these two stories (late PhD and 'ed') next to each other in HN. Last night I discovered my great aunt's old notebook from her schooldays a
by limbicsystem 5y ago
Very odd to me to see these two stories (late PhD and 'ed') next to each other in HN. Last night I discovered my great aunt's old notebook from her schooldays and posted it on Insta.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb3Y6M1sYW-/?utm_medium=copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb3Y6M1sYW-/?utm_medium=copy_lin...
She was, to my knowledge, the oldest person to get a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (starting in her retirement and getting it in her '70s). In the late 1990s she explained to me how she would go in to the University computer labs and write her thesis using 'ed'. Even then I was impressed :)