For this reason he rejected the opportunity to go abroad to study at government expense. His plans to go abroad on his own were, as we have seen, scotched by his decision to enter MTI, so he has still never picked up his PhD.
放棄了公費出國，自己申請到學校後又因緣際會地進了台揚，黃文丁至今沒有拿到博士學位。他不諱言，這是他心理上「唯一的一個缺口」。