Economics Major Ocasio-Cortez Invents New Economist By Mashing Up Two Names. Internet Implodes.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) takes a lot of grief for her less-than-stellar commentary. And the former bartender gets a lot of guff for being a former bartender. But she’s much more than that: AOC graduated cum laude in 2011 from Boston University College of Arts and Sciences with a dual bachelor of arts degree in both international relations and economics.

She’s smart and she brags about it often. “Wondering: How many other House Democrats have a degree in Economics like I do?” she once wrote on Twitter. “Trying to find who out here is going to be in the Gini Coefficient Appreciation Squad.”