<p>one of the things that doesn’t take a lot of brainpower to see through is the fact that people tend to hate on people who seem to have sneaked through the backdoor to success, even though the evidence blatantly states otherwise. Seriously, grow up. </p>
<p>Same with justin beiber. most guys hate him because he gets the girls, and he’s a big success. just admit it. find all the excuses you want, but ultimately, it’s plain jealousy.</p>
<p>I wonder what the 62 unit schedule consisted of.</p>
<p>Most [UCLA</a> English courses](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog10-11-310.htm#242087504_pgfId-1003094]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog10-11-310.htm#242087504_pgfId-1003094) appear to be 4 or 5 units. However, the quote above implies that no more than 6 were upper division English courses.</p>
<p>Lol, I hope you’re not serious, clockwork. He’s rich. He just pays people to do the work for him.</p>
<p>I really doubt that. He seems like an intelligent guy.</p>
<p>I don’t see why he has to be enrolled in TWO phd programs though…especially when one is in New England and the other is in Texas…</p>
<p>Princessmahina, I didn’t just make that up. It’s in interviews. He sends personal assistants to his classes.</p>
<p>Going to class and doing the work for him are two different things. It’s not a bad idea to send someone else to take notes while he does actual work for other classes.</p>
<p>Just letting everyone know… he’s currently at Columbia and NOT Yale. He despises Yale.</p>
<p>The New York Times says he is, also I agree with PRiNCESSMAHiNA…sending someone else to take the notes and doing the work himself is a pretty good idea.</p>
<p>Yep, definitely a great idea. So is paying someone to do the work for you too. I’m not saying that I know that he does do that, but why is it so hard to believe that he wouldn’t? 62 credits is a lot.</p>
<p>It is a possibility but really it is just speculation for the moment, maybe more information will come out maybe not…</p>
<p>It’s a great idea to send assistants to class, but you know if someone else tried that, say someone not rich and famous, they’d get in trouble. At my school even the deaf, handicapped, and blind kids have to come to class. If anyone should be able to send an assistant, it’d be them.</p>
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<p>It makes me wonder if he got “internship” credit or something similar for going out and doing his job as an actor, and “study abroad” because it happened to be filming off campus, and “independent study” since he had to do some research for his role. Add that with online extension classes or something of that sort and I could see how you’d get some pretty astronomical numbers.</p>
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Plenty of students skip class and get notes from friends. Heck, just this morning I learned a month’s worth of CS classes in the 4 hours right before our final exam.</p>
<p>I thought there was a 21 credit max at most places per semester… I wish I had his focus if it is true.</p>
<p>There’s no reason for him to be enrolled if he were sending PAs to class and paying other people to do his work for him. He’s a millionaire actor.</p>
<p>Skipping is different than having an assistant show up to every class to do the work for you. Presumably you would show up to most of your classes.</p>
<p>I disagree. What’s the difference between missing lecture and getting notes from friends, and missing lecture and sending someone to take notes for you? As long as students are only graded on homework and exams - not on attendance or participation - I don’t care how they learn the material as long as they learn it. </p>
<p>Maybe that’s easier for me to say because I grew up in a school system where students are graded on mastery and not effort. Participation didn’t count, homework didn’t count. The only thing that mattered was whether we could pass our exams.</p>
<p>There is a school record(unless someone has recently topped it) at my university by a man named Tom(not me). He was (and still is) a graduate student at The University of Michigan and has 7 masters and 3 phD’s. He took 52 credit hours in one semester because there is no limit on the amount of credits you can take at UofM’s grad school. To further make this amazing, his degrees are either in an engineering field or Physics related field with only 1 degree not being related to the former mentioned areas. He claimed during that semester that the University recognizes as a 52 credit semester that he took a nap for 15 minutes every 4 hours and that was the only time he slept. When i started listening to him and people in the library I didn’t believe it, but I come to find out he lives in the same structure as me and when talking to him in his room saw that he does not own a bed. On top of that he doesnt own a coat and wears jean shorts and a tshirt everywhere he goes(ann arbor becomes freezing in the winter). Now he did not take 62 like James Franco claimed but he is also in engineering and physics and not an english major. I find it to be insane. One last thing. He was an immigrant and needed to stay employed to keep the potential status of his green card rolling!</p>
<p>Thought i would share since it seems relevant to the discussion even though the discussion has been over for a long time</p>
<p>Isn’t this the same guy who [got</a> his NYU professor fired](<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57345490-10391698/james-franco-got-nyu-professor-fired-lawsuit-claims/]got”>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57345490-10391698/james-franco-got-nyu-professor-fired-lawsuit-claims/) for giving him a D because he missed 12 out of 14 classes?</p>
<p>@tom- Do UofM’s grad classes not require attendance?</p>