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Emma Watson is going to return to Brown University to finish degree



Emma Watson, the star of the Harry Potter films, is set to return to Brown University in January next year to complete her degree, her spokesperson has confirmed.


The 22-year-old actress, famous for her role as Hermione Granger in the JK Rowling series, is re-enrolling after a two-year absence from her undergraduate studies.


Watson, who originally enrolled in September 2009 for a four-year degree, put her studies on hold at the Ivy League university in 2011 while she finished working on the final instalment of the Harry Potter films.


At the time she told her fans: "I've decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on 'Harry Potter' ... and to focus on my other professional and acting projects. I will still be working towards my degree ... it's just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought."


She dismissed rumours that she was dropping out because of bullying.


Watson transferred from Rhode Island to Oxford University in 2011 to continue the third-year of her course but took another break after landing a role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The actress has previously admitted finding studying at Brown Univerisity hard and said she her success makes it a struggle going out in public places.

"My first two years at Brown weren't easy, not because I was bullied or because anyone gave me a particularly hard time, but just because, you know, without the collegiate system ... and at Brown everyone does completely different things and very much chooses their own path, which is great, but it's also much more difficult, too. You're not with a group of people all the time at one time," she said.

Watson is believed to be reading English.

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nicholasdee 24th-Oct-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
awww undergrads

I am so jealous of how easy they have it
sincetomorrow 24th-Oct-2012 02:56 pm (UTC)
seriously. I used to moan about assignments/exams/etc at the time, but looking back it was a cakewalk.
mountainblack 24th-Oct-2012 03:31 pm (UTC)
are you one of those people that looks to bring up grad school in every sentence
__nocturna 24th-Oct-2012 03:35 pm (UTC)
lool
draion 24th-Oct-2012 04:04 pm (UTC)
dead
ellenelles 24th-Oct-2012 06:23 pm (UTC)
lmaooo
nicholasdee 24th-Oct-2012 06:50 pm (UTC)
in a post about college, yes
nasstasja_sk 24th-Oct-2012 04:01 pm (UTC)
Seriously. I'm so mad at myself for my constant grumping. I'd give everything to go back.
ellenelles 24th-Oct-2012 06:24 pm (UTC)
lol
reginageorge 24th-Oct-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
good for ha
butt_or_skotch 24th-Oct-2012 02:10 pm (UTC)
Good for her! But, what is this line: "Watson is believed to be reading English." Do they mean that's her major?
xxgoddessevexx 24th-Oct-2012 02:15 pm (UTC)
Yes, in the UK if you read something it means you study it.
colorstoobright 24th-Oct-2012 02:22 pm (UTC)
lol i came into this post to ask the same thing. i'm pretty tired, so when i read that line, i was thinking, "isn't she smart enough to read her first language?" oop.
sky3205 24th-Oct-2012 07:18 pm (UTC)
lol, you are too cute
lambjunkie 24th-Oct-2012 02:12 pm (UTC)
like that blind item from yesterday said
kingsmere 24th-Oct-2012 02:39 pm (UTC)
That's what I thought of first.
ladysherlock 24th-Oct-2012 02:59 pm (UTC)
ikr? Now all I can think when I see her is that she's a dead fish in bed.
goofusgallant 24th-Oct-2012 03:18 pm (UTC)
mte
treebraids 24th-Oct-2012 04:09 pm (UTC)
mte.
georgiana08 24th-Oct-2012 02:13 pm (UTC)
That's awesome that she's finishing. It seems like so many of the celebrities that attempt to go to college only last a year or so before they drop out.
nobodynomore 24th-Oct-2012 02:41 pm (UTC)
Or many drop out with one semester to go.
thesegoto11 25th-Oct-2012 12:02 am (UTC)
ikr
wits 24th-Oct-2012 02:15 pm (UTC)
[student loans comment]
shesasuperhero 24th-Oct-2012 02:16 pm (UTC)
Student loans were the reason I chose to go to a state school TBH
shesasuperhero 24th-Oct-2012 02:16 pm (UTC)
I spoke to some people who went to Brown at the time she did, and they all basically said that she partied hard and was kind of a bitch to everyone.

I can't confirm or deny. But I mean, I'm sure she got a lot of people coming up to her, and talking about Harry Potter which I would imagine be super annoying when you're trying to take College seriously.
cluelessraf 24th-Oct-2012 02:44 pm (UTC)
My friend was a freshman when Emma was also one at Brown and they lived in the same dorm and they had a decoy dormroom because of all the people playing pranks on her door.

I'd be bitter too.
nathanandbarry 24th-Oct-2012 04:01 pm (UTC)
ugh, that's terrible. so would i tbh.

Elizabeth Olsen said she only lived in the dorms for a year because people would randomly come to her room and make excuses as to why they were there and they'd just like look at her. What is wrong with people?

That would actually frighten me, you know?

Edited at 2012-10-24 04:01 pm (UTC)
defaultit 24th-Oct-2012 09:42 pm (UTC)
A good friend goes to Brown and has had an English class with her. She said Watson was really nice in class, grounded, funny, and very easy to work with. If anything, my friend said that other Brown students get pissed (and rightfully so, imo) that Watson gets to graduate with everyone else even though she has missed a lot of school.
hotness3ya 24th-Oct-2012 02:17 pm (UTC)
Good for you girl! Get it!
foxtree 24th-Oct-2012 02:18 pm (UTC)
Lucky her. I have to wonder if her professors made some allowances b/c IIRC she was often jetting off to fashion shows and shit her first couple of years.

Transferring really sucks. When I switched schools they took less than half my credits and it took me nearly five fucking years to get my undergrad degree.
/bitter
colorstoobright 24th-Oct-2012 02:23 pm (UTC)
mine was worse. when i transferred, i had to repeat everything. goodbye, 4 semesters i took.
__papillon 24th-Oct-2012 02:26 pm (UTC)
well, it's brown, so i imagine they probably allowed her to gallivant around all in the name of ~non-traditional learning~ she probably didn't always have to be in class everyday but as long as she could demonstrate she was keeping up with readings and e-mailing her papers, it was probably fine.
boe_moi 24th-Oct-2012 02:39 pm (UTC)
Probably. She also dropped out twice to shoot Perks and that Bling Ring movie. She wouldn't be able to do that if her professors didn't allow it.
starswept 24th-Oct-2012 02:46 pm (UTC)
I didn't think she transferred from Brown to Oxford though did she? I thought she was just planning on doing her third year there, the way many people study abroad in their third year of undergrad, and then you just transfer the credits back to your home school, but you make sure it is all approved before you go.
leviathan0999 24th-Oct-2012 07:07 pm (UTC)
Correct! Again, this was all thoroughly reported many times.

The entertainment press doesn't bother to fact-check.
harbour_jane 24th-Oct-2012 03:01 pm (UTC)
when i transferred after sophomore year i lost all my basic core classes. it took me five and a half years to graduate with my BA since my new school wouldn't let me take upper-level classes without first retaking the core classes. so annoying.
plugmebaby 24th-Oct-2012 03:06 pm (UTC)
same for me. i transferred from double degree to just an arts degree and its taking me the same amount of time. for a useless ass degree.
hotcement 24th-Oct-2012 03:24 pm (UTC)
gurl. I'm in my 7th year of undergrad because of transferring. I have only taken one semester off. I will be graduating next December after 7.5 years. I feel your pain lol.
draion 24th-Oct-2012 04:07 pm (UTC)
Me right now.

And it doesn't help that I pretty much when through a personal turnover over the past year and not only switched majors, but am double-majoring and minoring.

X______________________X
twowaymirrrors 24th-Oct-2012 02:18 pm (UTC)
Watson is believed to be reading English.

What? Do they mean that's her major or...? Good for her for going back, though.
thesilverymoon 24th-Oct-2012 02:26 pm (UTC)
In the UK they say reading instead of majoring. It's the same thing.
thesilverymoon 24th-Oct-2012 02:27 pm (UTC)
copied from above:
In the UK they say reading instead of majoring. It's the same thing.
funkybaby 24th-Oct-2012 02:29 pm (UTC)
i just started my last year at uni wooooohoooo
nobodynomore 24th-Oct-2012 02:42 pm (UTC)
Me toooo! I graduate in May!
goldenlockets 24th-Oct-2012 02:43 pm (UTC)
me too! so excited to be done. i wish i had money for grad school, but alas...
heydigital 24th-Oct-2012 03:29 pm (UTC)
Depending on your major/the type of job you want to get sometimes your job out of college will pay for you to go to grad school or at least help you out as long as it's a grad program relevant to your career. Of course I want to go to med school so I have no such luck but you can always be like me and take time off to save up money and then go back! Don't give up just because of money bb. :)
coffeenmorphine 24th-Oct-2012 02:35 pm (UTC)
Man, she is so privileged. I don't think normal students would be able to take a leave of absence, then "study abroad" at another school, then go back to the original school. I'm not bagging on her because she earned her place in those schools. But I cannot imagine being afforded that luxury for "work". She's in movies, not saving lives.

Edited at 2012-10-24 02:36 pm (UTC)
loveumbrella 24th-Oct-2012 02:38 pm (UTC)
I don't understand this though, it's school, not a prison. As long as you finish your studies in time, I don't think anyone should mind.
boe_moi 24th-Oct-2012 02:43 pm (UTC)
Mte. She's really lucky. One of my friends had to take a leave of abscence because of health issues and it was such an issue.
anolinde 24th-Oct-2012 02:44 pm (UTC)
I'd imagine that most students would be able to take a leave of absence...

And Brown is pretty flexible about student learning; iirc you can even make your own major.
coffeenmorphine 24th-Oct-2012 02:48 pm (UTC)
Yeah, but you don't just take a leave of absence; you usually need a super good reason. Effectively you're dropping out for a year, where you're spot could have been filled by someone else. That was my school's perspective anyway.

And making your own major doesn't =/= I'll attend my professor's lectures as my schedule permits. They'd sooner ask you to take the course later, when you have time to show it proper devotion.
magwildwood 24th-Oct-2012 03:23 pm (UTC)
I think it depends on the school. Mine would've been open to it, as small liberal arts schools usually are. It also had high academic standards that if you didn't meet, they'd force you to take off some time, so it wasn't that rare to take a leave.
slut_talk 24th-Oct-2012 03:46 pm (UTC)
Exactly. At my school it's either...you're going or you're not. You can't just take time off. Hell, most of my professors would only let you miss one class at most (my roommate had a girl in one of her classes who missed two and her professor failed her).
nathanandbarry 24th-Oct-2012 04:04 pm (UTC)
It depends on the school. I know kids who were at my school off and on and they weren't famous.
lucynyu 24th-Oct-2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
I agree, at my uni you have to have a medical reason or its bye-bye degree. I broke my rib in January and had to take time out, so I lost all my hard work from the first semester and have to repeat the second year again ;( ugh I'm older than all these kids anyway I didn't want to have to repeat ;(
kamikashi 24th-Oct-2012 08:00 pm (UTC)
it honestly depends on the school. if anything, shes one of the students who are actually giving a good reason for a leave of absence. medical, family trouble, important work, sports, etc. are good reasons. i go to uc berkeley and i dont even think we need to give reasons for a leave of absence. we just have to have a declared major already and do the readmission process correctly.

and idk why you put "study abroad" in quotes. its very normal for students to study abroad in a different country and then come back to finish your degree. i think thats what studying abroad means lol.
knockelles 24th-Oct-2012 02:38 pm (UTC)
Good for her.

I used to dream of attending Brown lmao. Then I got realistic about my academic capabilities~
bottom_line 24th-Oct-2012 02:39 pm (UTC)
Blah. College.
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