[Yeah, that's... A question, which Lance has to decide for several seconds how he wants to answer.]

I was not exactly that person that studies for fun, so as far as a lot of the classwork went, no. But keeping the end result and goal in mind made it worth doing, so it's not like I hated it, and the doctorates were also a lot more interesting which is why I did two of them.

[So, basically, he enjoyed research and writing papers, but coursework was a means to an end more than anything else.]