He could have broken into the computer systems of the state university, found the record of someone who had graduated with a nice B+ or A-average, copied the record, put his own name on it, and added it to the records of that year's graduating class. Thinking this through, feeling somehow uneasy about the idea, he realized there must be other records of a student having been on campus—tuition payment records, the housing office, and who knows what else. Creating just the record of courses and grades would leave too many loopholes.