Doesn't seem so. The article talks about a person getting a sociology degree, while the Reddit post talks about someone working on an MEng degree. Given the poster's extensive posts on Flyertalk and his comments saying that there are two of them[1], I think there actually might be two different folks doing this.
edit: Found an older post where the poster says they're doing an MEng Civil Engineering program[2]
[1] https://old.reddit.com/user/greateranglia
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/urcxua/is_it_poss...