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."

Comments

Programming Whizz?

[Demena]

Oh! Please! If he was one Windows would have been better. THe idea that you would compliment him on his programming is offensive to those that do program. Did you ever see any of his code?

Surprise surprise, windows slashdotted

[Ace905]

Looks like the site has been slashdotted. Lol. I've mirrored the article here if anybodies having trouble getting it.

http://www.douginadress.com/news/2007/032207-bill- gates-to-finally-receive.html

You see? That's what's wrong with society today..

[Anonymous Coward]

... Degrees being handed out without the work! Like it's... an entitlement or something...

I say make him sit through those droning lectures! Force him through those assignments that will actually make him a decent programmer.

This just cheapens the BS degree for everyone else...

Okay, so it took me 10 years to get my degree (interrupted by a military stint, working full time, getting married and having 4 kids under 8 by the time I finished up)

I just think we'd be denying Bill a proper sense of accomplishment if he received it without all the work. Wouldn't that truly put hair on his chest? (which he probably needs, too. :-) )

Re:Rich man's GED

[timeOday]

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

Is Bill Gates prominent in some academmic field?

No Respect for the League of Ivy Gentlemen

[db32]

Wow...so here we go yet again. Honorary degree's for people worthless in their field. Bill Gates is an excellent marketeer, monopolist, and theif. He is trash in IT. He makes the most innane "predictions" and MS products are constantly playing catchup in terms of innovation (well, maybe not catchup, so much as embrace, extend, extinguish).

Let us not forget...Bush got his from Yale. Ahh...Once again excellent business and legislative skills have earned him a pretty ticket. Well, if you count absolute contempt and disregard for the law. War, wiretaps, refusal to answer to any kind of subpoenas and the like. Ahh...

These colleges seem to be getting more and more worthless and just sucking in big name people to prop their notoriety up. Fact is people are getting excellent educations in the real world and non brand name colleges.