<p>[Michigan</a> Man Has 29 College Degrees and Isn’t Stopping - ABC News](<a href=“Michigan Man Has 29 College Degrees and Counting - ABC News”>Michigan Man Has 29 College Degrees and Counting - ABC News)</p>
<p>He has a doctorate in Education, 1 bachelor’s in Religious Education, 22 Master’s, 2 Associate’s and 3 “special” degrees. He is currently working on a Master’s in Criminal Justice and wishes to get 33 or 34 degrees before he “feel[s] like [he’s] completed [his] basic education”</p>
<p>Looks like you’ve found a role model, David. :)</p>
<p>That’s as impressive to me as if he had 29 cars.</p>
<p>He sounds like a professional student. If he keeps going, he may never have to pay those student loans back.</p>
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<p>That’s “specialist degree”–it’s between a masters and a doctorate/</p>
<p>Honestly, this seems like a gimmick and misuse of resources. Don’t get me wrong–I’m all for higher ed, but this is past all reason, IMO.</p>
<p>It is a misuse of resources. Twenty nine people with one degree each could accomplish a heck of a lot more than one guy with twenty nine degrees. In fact that guy probably has accomplished little to nothing in his life beyond feeding his ego - he’s spent all his time in school.</p>
<p>How is it a misuse of resources?</p>
<p>Hah, a misuse of resources. He can pay for it? Then he can do whatever the hell he likes. He’s doing more than any of you would parking yourself in front of the couch or your new Kinect. I never understood how people could just live life without knowing at least a little bit about the different disciplines.</p>
<p>Hobbit hill, I don’t have a college degree, please explain to me how this man has made more of a difference in the world, than if he had never set foot in a college.</p>
<p>He’s making himself a more informed citizen with the money that MOST people spend on useless leisure items, such as the vidyagames.</p>
<p>How can you presume he’s more informed than people with real life experience? Most people can get the knowledge without needing the piece(s) of paper showing they acquired it. Well read tradesmen can be whizzes at politics or history by reading- no need to collect a degree. His PhD is apparently in education (the link was blank for me)- a jack of all trades type of field but not as in depth as some other fields. I wonder how much more he would have learned if he had taken time to experience the work in each field- criminal justice is more than the college courses, a lot is learned in the real world.</p>
<p>So collecting degrees is his hobby- I like the car reference of a post. I’ll bet he never did the harder timewise degrees in lab sciences and engineering- I wonder how truly well rounded he is. Instead of exploring the real world in retirement he spends time online living a virtual life I suspect.</p>
<p>I truly don’t understand why you’re all being such *******s about it.</p>
<p>I think most people get mad because he hasn’t done anything with those degrees and uses money from government or loans to pay for college. I still find it impressive</p>
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You can’t get loans or government money at that age with that many degrees. The article says he works menial jobs to pay tuition. People pursue all kinds of hobbies. Not seeing why anyone would find this one irritating or disturbing.</p>
<p>Sorry, read the article a few days ago and didn’t remember the exact details. I guess they’re just mad he hasn’t done anything with those degrees yet but wouldn’t it take more than menial jobs to support all the expenses of college?</p>
<p>The article leaves me thinking his next degree should be something that will teach him how to type and deal with a computer - are you kidding me!</p>
<p>It sounds like his wife has been working at a university so he gets a discount.Perhaps why she has only seven degrees.
He was working as a parking lot attendant when he started college decades ago, & he’s still doing so? Sounds like his degrees have done a lot for him .</p>
<p>Why do his degrees have to do something for him, ek? Can’t the point be just the challenge itself? Obviously he’s not doing it to further some kind of career objective at this point.</p>
<p>He never was, that is my point.
But he is hardly unusual, Americans are known all over the world for their self absorption.
It still can irritate me though.</p>
<p>Why is this irritating? Like some already mentioned, people have loads of menial little hobbies and leisure time. Why would learning things be considered a disturbing hobby? I don’t understand why people are irritated that he isn’t pursuing a career. Why is that a bad thing?</p>