Things I do outside the practice

Over about fifteen years I accumulated an unusual number of university degrees. At some point the interesting problem stopped being the studying and became the paperwork: proving, to an evidentiary standard, that each one exists.

That meant a repeatable pipeline per degree — the original diploma, a Hague apostille, a certified English translation, the translators’ association certification of that translation, and in several cases a second apostille over the certification. 13 of the titles have been through the apostille stage.

I have been assembling that documentation with a Guinness World Records submission in mind, in the “most university degrees” category. I want to be precise about the status of that, because it is the one claim on this site that cannot be checked: it is an intention, not an achievement. Guinness does not publish its applicant pipeline, so no third party can confirm or refute a claim to be a candidate — which is exactly why it does not belong next to credentials that can be confirmed. If a record is ever awarded, there will be a Guinness page to link to, and it will be linked from here.

The genuinely verifiable version of the underlying claim is on the verification page: 17 university degrees recorded in Argentina’s Registro Público de Graduados Universitarios, searchable by name, plus 3 international postgraduate programmes.