 What if you could get college credit for working at Walmart or McDonald's? Both companies are testing the fit between real-life learning and higher education. NPR's Alina Selyuk reports. One semester, something unusual happened to Bonnie Boop. I always wanted to go back to college. And she did in her late 40s. She says mainly out of principle, to get that bachelor's on top of two associate degrees she'd gotten years before. Bachelor's degrees tend to open more doors, like kids used to say.