So I did a little bit of internet research, because everything the internet says is true, especially because Facebook and Wikipedia are on the internet. It turns out that at the beginning of Season 1, the viewing audience was informed that Jack Bauer was 35 years old. (I'm not going to use extrapolated ages based on later seasons, because multiple years pass between seasons, making Season 1 the most accurate benchmark for the actual age.)
Season 1 ran from 2001 to 2002. Let us make a logical extension and assume that Season 1 (more specifically, that entire day) occurred in 2002, giving Jack the benefit of the doubt. This means that Jack was born in 1967. Let us also assume that the Master's in Criminology and Law is a two-year Master's degree, because that's simply the most common timeframe for terminal Master's degrees. His biography states nothing about any educational or occupational activity between finishing his Bachelor degree at UCLA and his Master's degree at Berkeley, so we can assume that he went straight from four years of college to two years of graduate school. After crunching some basic numbers, we figure that Jack Bauer graduated from UC Berkeley at the age of 24 (HURHURHUR) in the year 1991. (Ph.D., please!)
Now, why did I bother doing all that? So I could make this:
I wonder how much he gives back every year, assuming dead people isn't considered legal tender in the United States of America.
Now, all that needs to happen is that his face needs to be on 1) the big board on Dwinelle Plaza with all the faces and 2) on the Campaign for Berkeley website.
You are amazing.
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