I have had classmates who already have their PhDs. It's a very friendly environment where people want to learn. At the University of Sarajevo I had to say that I was studying law, even though I was not completely sure it was what I wanted. Sometimes I felt like I was changing my mind about what I wanted to do every week, with every class. It was exciting.
People come here with the desire to learn.
In my 32 courses I never met anyone who didn't come to class without that perspective. However, this time his academic and financial pursuits were not quite as disparate as law and jewelry making. Working at Harvard's Government Documents Collection, he found not only financial but also academic support. It provided him with more than simply a living. The whole environment has an academic focus.