> Typical Trip: For my fall semester, my first class is 10am on M/W, and 8am on F. For my 10am class, I would usually wake up 340am and take the 6am LAX-SFO Alaska flight, have breakfast in the SFO lounge, then ride BART to campus. For the 8am class, I would always wake up 330am and take the 530am LAX-OAK Southwest flight, since that's the only flight to get me to campus by 8am.

The meat of it - get classes such that you can use a commuter flight to commute.

Not the same person.

HN article says degree was in sociology and the person is in his 50s.

Reddit OP says he did ME and is in his 20s.