Rand Paul’s claim — twice in one day — that he has a biology degree

Wasington Post ^ | February 13, 2015 | Glenn Kessler

[rickyrikardo]

Paul studied biology (and English) at Baylor, but he didn’t earn a degree. There’s no excuse for resume-inflation, even when it’s jocular. We can’t quite say this is worthy of Four Pinocchios, but the senator should be more careful in the future.

[sasquatch]

Al Gore flunked college and he ended up inventing the internet.

Like the standard process, Gore recognised something useful and attached himself to it. I worked at Intel but only invented part of the microprocessor. It was a couple of chunks of ceramic and silicon and metal stuff. With an offset printed label. And a shipping tube!

[Weirdad]

Many colleges would award degrees after the fact to their students who went beyond a certain number of hours and then moved on and obtained a qualifying higher degree (doctorate typically).

It was common back in my day.

I would not be surprised to see a retroactively awarded diploma trotted out that critics were unable to locate.

[Weirdad]

Exactly, I just said the same thing later. It happened commonly.