Harry Potter Star Emma Watson's college life proves less than magical as actress leaves Brown

NY Daily News ^ | 04/24/2011

[DCBurgess58]

A cry baby? good God almighty... the girl chooses to leave Brown and go elsewhere, newspapers make a big deal of it and then people like you make idiotic coments. I don’t give a damn what Emma Watson does or why she does it, why does it matter enough to you to make such angry childish comments?

[LS]

She’s welcome to attend the University of Dayton. I know a history professor who would gladly guide her through the thickets of leftism there.

[y6162]

“why does it matter enough to you to make such angry childish comments?”

It seems to me that the brownies were giving her a good natured ribbing. She was hardly bullied.

My comments may be childish, but not angry.

[GeronL]

She has said she has nothing against taking off her clothes for public consumption.

[Mr Rogers]

"Exactly. This is the worst kind of bullying."

No, getting beaten bloody is the worst kind of bullying. Watson ought to be tough enough to handle some name calling, particularly since that name calling has its roots in a film series that made her probably over $35 million. I had more respect for her before I read an article about how tough it was making Potter, since her day wasn't her own 'from the time I was picked up by the chauffeur until I was dropped off' - a comment that got her a ton of bad press in England!

If she finds it too tough, she can give me a million dollars and have those tough bullies call me names. Heck, for a million dollars, the bullies can try physical assault. I've got the answer for them..."THREE POINTS FOR RUGER!":

[discostu]

She might be tough enough, but on the other hand after her HP run she’s also rich enough that she doesn’t have to. She was in school for fun, if dickhead students make it not fun leaving is appropriate.

[PapaBear3625]

She might be tough enough, but on the other hand after her HP run she’s also rich enough that she doesn’t have to.

If she wants to KEEP her money, it would be prudent to take some classes in accounting and finance, so she can keep an eye on the people managing her investments.

[bgill]

Unfortunately, this brought out the sophisticated wit and cinematic expertise of her Ivy League peers.

Sophisticated? No, more like sophomoric.

[DCBurgess58]

She has said she has nothing against taking off her clothes for public consumption.

Did she say "I have nothing against taking off my clothes for public consumption" or are those your words. I know she has been asked if she would do a nude scene in a movie and I believe she said she would, if it was the right part... She is an actress... Okay, enough on this topic, I'm moving on.

[newzjunkey]

This is a big reason why girls tend to shy away from math and science. When they ask too many questions, they’re made to feel dumb.

Piling it higher and deeper today?

[Scoutmaster]

I wouldn't ride Harvard too hard for grade inflation. It's epidemic at most colleges and has been for at least the last twenty years, and sometimes forty-five years.

Try this site gradeinflation.com, maintained by a former Duke professor who has been maintaining statistics on grade inflation by colleges for over twenty years.

Harvard isn't the leader among private schools in grade inflation.

And the true grade inflation has been at flagship universities of southern states. The University of Georgia, University of Florida, and University of Alabama are all in the top six nationally in grade inflation over the last twenty years (although Georgia's inflation can be explained in great part by its HOPE scholarship, which increased the average high school GPA and ACT/SAT scores of its freshman class, and requires that students keep up their college GPAs to maintain their financial aid).

Flagship university is the key. While the University of Alabama has been one of the nation's leaders in grade inflation, Auburn University joins MIT and Princeton as one of the colleges with the least grade inflation.

There's something else you overlook. Harvard students are smart.

With some affirmative admission exceptions, they're driven and d*mn smart or they wouldn't be there.

I have degrees from Harvard as well as from two large public universities, one ranked in the 'top ten' public universities. I have brothers with degrees from Duke and UNC, and children with degrees with Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia - and I work with students and recent graduates from Ivy League school, top public and private schools, other public and private colleges and universities, and community colleges. There IS a difference in student bodies.

You can make a success of yourself without a degree from a top school. And there are bright students at schools that aren't considered top schools, either for financial reasons, family reasons, or because they didn't test well.

But the fact of the situation is that the average Harvard freshman could waltz into the average community college and start as a senior - and then graduate with highest honors.

The discussions we have on this board about international affairs, and economics, and politics, and science? Those discussions take place in cafeterias, and dorm rooms, and walking across the Square to the Coop - and while the politics may be liberal, it's different than discussing that weekend's football game, where you're pledging, when Avatar II is coming out, and who is boinking who on Jersey Shore. I was stunned by how different the average student conversation was at Harvard and at the other universities - or compared to what I hear coming from students at other universities today.

Most of the students entering Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, Columbia - and dozens of other high-admission-requirement schools, have already read every book that will be required by an English literature major at many other universities.

Yeah, they're kids. They'll drink. They'll engage in sex.

But what they know when they start in college, and the average topic of conversation, and what they read in college, is completely different - ON AVERAGE - than what you'll find at most colleges and universities.

There is a tiered system of education.

If you want to measure Duke students against Duke students, then the average student deserves a C. Same for Brown.

But they're obscenely smart kids when they get to school, and if you measure them against the curriculum . . . then a huge percentage of them likely deserve As.

How would you grade an entire student body of obscenely smart, driven, students?

[newzjunkey]

It seems to me that the brownies were giving her a good natured ribbing. She was hardly bullied.

"A good natured ribbing" may be done among friends, not by complete strangers. She was not respected as a person only because she was child actress. This reflects poorly on Brown and the "Ivy League." It was a clear disciplinary problem they failed to resolve.

She was heckled in the classroom, even stalked outside of it. How is that OK with you?

[y6162]

“She was heckled in the classroom, even stalked outside of it. How is that OK with you? “

The way I read it was that she was teased and not harshly.
Celebrities deal with stalkers all the time.

I didn’t realize there were so many godless Potterites on FR. Who knew?

[netmilsmom]

Um, none of those child stars you mentioned are of the caliber of Emma Watson. And those on the wiki list became stars after attending.

And of course, the spawn of the loins of limousine liberals are horrendous snobs. Likely, they attacked her to show how superior they are.

[discostu]

She very well might have already, and still could without putting up with students being idiots. All though truthfully with that amount of cash she could just stick in the bank and limit her spending to the interest and be good for life.

[netmilsmom]

>>She might be tough enough, but on the other hand after her HP run she’s also rich enough that she doesn’t have to. She was in school for fun, if dickhead students make it not fun leaving is appropriate.<<

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

[DollyCali]

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[AppyPappy]

I imagine it just became too much of a hassle being a “star” on campus and she decided school in England didn’t sound so bad after all.

If she had gone to UVA, the shine would have worn off the penny pretty quickly and she could have lived a fairly normal campus life.

[LS]

As I said on a post on another thread, I’d be happy to tutor her at the U. of Dayton :)

[Mr. K]

You know, Did you ever think you are seeing this all wrong?

she didnt “party” and turn into a druggie ala Spears, Sohan..

She went to school on her own dime, studied hard and knew the answers in class, and now she is as fed-up with the elitest classless libtard spawn that we are... so she left.

I dont see whining anywhere here