96-year old becomes oldest graduate from USC.

Wait, hold up. What happened?

It was all sort of an oversight.

You know how it goes. It's 1953. You think you just graduated from the University of Southern California. You're in the process of founding your own soil company that you'll oversee for the next 55 years, so you need to skip commencement ceremonies.

There's just a small problem. You're one unit short of a bachelor's degree, you never really graduated, and no one will find out you don't actually have that degree until you're 96-years old. Even you won't find out until your family goes poking around for a copy. That's when they're told it doesn't exist.

Such is the case of one Alfonso Gonzales, who is now the oldest-ever graduate of USC, after he took an independent study course to earn one unit that was separating him from a bachelor's degree, sixty-three years after the fact.

Soil, man. Mother Nature's granular vixen. It's distracted lesser men.