super senior
n.— «Gore was introduced by a super senior at the University(fifth year student who couldn’t graduate because of lack of classes) who told the Bush/Quayle hecklers that they were at the wrong rally.» —“Al Gore speaks to students on National Student Day” by Daffy Duck Usenet: talk.politics.misc Sept. 19, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...