Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree

coondoggie writes "It's not like he needs it to beef up his résumé, but the world's richest college dropout finally is getting his degree. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, will speak at Harvard University's commencement ceremony in June and, like all commencement speakers, will receive an honorary degree from the institution. It's hard to guess if Gates, the wealthiest person in the world and co-founder of a company that brought in $44 billion in revenue last year, cares. But the programming whiz who once dropped out of Harvard will likely feel some sense of satisfaction."

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With those credentials

[joeflies]

now maybe he could get past the resume screeners and get a job at Google? It's good to see him do something with his life now.

Honorary licenses

[owlman17]

In other news, Harvard University has just been granted 10,000 honorary Vista licenses and 10,000 Office 2k7 licenses...

degree is done, man

[pchan-]

Finally his parents will get off his back to go back to school and do something with his life!

Re:Rich man's GED

[Bastard of Subhumani]

Which field? I didn't know there was a subject called "monopology".

Re:An honorary degree

[Dogtanian]

He'll never be able to get a CS job with that! No, but he's one of the few people who might conceivably be able to meet such job requirements as "Window Vista (5 years experience)"...

Re:Rich man's GED

[smchris]

It's an honorary degree, it's more like saying "we recognise you as being prominent in this field and here's the proof."

Yup. He better not try to pass it off as a real degree on a job applicaton or he'll be in trouble.