Amjad Masad

Can I test it on you?

Yeah.

And so we tested, we changed the grades, but actually it turns out that I was doing that on a replica database, not on the master database.

So when he went to kind of pull his grades, his transcripts, it wasn't reflected there.

So I spent another two weeks and then found a way or the actual system

And then I was confident that I could, like, change my grades and actually get to graduate.

And I still felt like it was the just thing to do.

It was a fair thing to do, right?

Um...

So I changed my grades, calculus and other things that I didn't want to go to school, but I passed.

I know I, you know, but they failed me anyways for attendance.

So I changed my grades and I bought my gown, went to the graduation parties, took photos.

I was just graduating.

One day I'm at home and the telephone rings and I pick it up and it's like,

The person responsible for the college network and registration system, he's like, look, the entire network and the university is down.

And whenever we look at the code, we see there's a bug in your record.

There's a problem where it says you're disqualified from the final exam, but you're also passing.

It turns out they had another field that I didn't know about that...

was like true or false, whether you're disqualified for attendance.

And they had all these bad names for the field.