Nerd Notes: A Super-Nerd Grad Student has 11 Degrees

Well, that's pretty impressive . . . but why on earth would anybody need or want 11 different degrees?

It's nerd overload. Or sheer masochism. Or both?

Here they are, by the way:

• University of Oxford (1997, M.Sc., sociology)
• University of Cambridge (1998, M.Phil., sociology and politics of modern society)
• Stanford University (2000, A.M., education)
• Columbia University (2001, M.A., politics and education)
• Columbia University (2002, M.S., real-estate development)
• Harvard University (2002, M.Des.S., real estate)
• Brown University (2004, M.A., development studies)
• Dartmouth College (2004, M.A., liberal studies)
• Brandeis University (2007, M.A., coexistence and conflict)
• Skidmore College (2007, M.A., liberal studies)
• Harvard University (2008, D.Des., design)

Would you like fries with that? (Sorry, sorry!)