This single-participant phenomenological study derived from an advanced graduate-level qualitative research course assignment in 2022. I investigated the graduate school experiences of a purposefully selected septuagenarian male PhD student at a large, Southeastern U.S. university. The well-established University of Tennessee Transdisciplinary Phenomenology Research Group (TPRG) method framed the study. TPRG acknowledges multiple philosophies but is situated in Merleau-Ponty's approach, which recognizes four existential grounds: Body, Time, Others, and World. Structured analysis of the interview transcript elicited numerous themes; I chose six for focus in this paper. The self-described "unusual ... lifelong learner" provided incredibly rich data that could be analyzed for numerous topical papers and explored through follow-up interviews. [For the full proceedings, see ED631897.]