Jimmy... the degree hunter

An article published in The New York Times reported that Professor Belkin of Columbia University in New York missed her student, Jimmy Betton. She contacted him online, and he replied with an apology, explaining that he was on another continent, teaching students at a university in New Zealand, and would return to New York within days. The professor was astonished. She looked into his background and discovered that Betton graduated with high honors from Harvard University in 2016, and during the same period earned a master’s degree in applied mathematics. …