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The Doctor earned a [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] degree at [[Time Lord Academy|"Time Lord University"]] and was required to learn how to envision a superimposed array of 208 different 43-dimensional supersolids, taking eight years to master the skill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'') He passed his qualifying exams to become a Time Lord with only 51% — the lowest possible pass mark — on his second attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') A low mark on an essay about [[temporal mechanics]] that he wrote contributed to his low passing grade. Even years later, however, he insisted the paper deserved a higher mark. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') By one account, his low grades were a deliberate ploy to not to draw undue attention to himself, so he could eventually leave Gallifrey, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') while other accounts indicated they were the grades he truthfully deserved. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'', et. al) | The Doctor earned a [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] degree at [[Time Lord Academy|"Time Lord University"]] and was required to learn how to envision a superimposed array of 208 different 43-dimensional supersolids, taking eight years to master the skill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'') He passed his qualifying exams to become a Time Lord with only 51% — the lowest possible pass mark — on his second attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') A low mark on an essay about [[temporal mechanics]] that he wrote contributed to his low passing grade. Even years later, however, he insisted the paper deserved a higher mark. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') By one account, his low grades were a deliberate ploy to not to draw undue attention to himself, so he could eventually leave Gallifrey, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') while other accounts indicated they were the grades he truthfully deserved. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'', et. al) | ||
He graduated with "only" a double gamma. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') The Doctor graduated with the Master in the [[Panopticon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') | He graduated with "only" a double gamma. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') The Doctor graduated with the Master in the [[Panopticon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') The Doctor's time at the Academy, like the rest of their early life, was in flux due to their travels through time, as [[Maris]] found while investigated this point in the Doctor's life; she found one document that claimed he attended the school for twenty years, while another claimed his education was centuries long, while other evidence claimed he was expelled, possibly for his political ideals. When she visited the Academy, it seemed as if everyone remembered the Doctor, but there was no agreement on what his schooling was like; she both heard that he graduated with high grades and that he barely graduated with his 51 percent mark. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') | ||
While the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] once claimed to have received a doctorate at the "[[University of Gallifrey]]", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Herald of Madness (comic story)|Herald of Madness]]'') Maris found evidence that the Doctor never obtained a doctorate, only to also find evidence that the Doctor had. She also found evidence that he had a degree in cheesemaking and that there was a warrant for his arrest, only for there to be no record for such a warrant in her notes. Maris also believed "Time Lord University" did not exist but found evidence that the Doctor studied [[Higher-Dimensional Physics]] there and that the Doctor trapped one of the school's lecturers in a [[time loop]], only to be sanctioned by the [[chancellor]] of the university. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') | |||
== Career == | == Career == | ||
