<p>I have many questions regarding about celebrities’ college lives. I’m not talking about normal celebrities like YouTube celebrities. I’m talking about big names in Hollywood or Disney like Emma Watson, Reese Witherspoon, Zach and Cody brothers and so on… I wonder has anyone here actually had a classmate or a friend in class during colleges that were or are celebrities? And what was the experience like? How celebrities are treated in college? Were they more special because they are famous? Did the professors give them special favor or special attention? In other word, tell me everything you know about celebrities in college from REAL experience, not through second hand. Or you can point out to me a good reliable source (some kind of news or articles or something).</p>
<p>One more thing, I only know celebrities through the news and in movies they were in. We don’t really know their real personalities unless you actually hang out with them in real life. So my question is are celebrities nice or greedy or snobbish or arrogant or humble…? Again, you can point out to me a good reliable source on this topic (what I mean is a reliable source that talk about this topic or answer all of my questions above).</p>
<p>I don’t know about his college life because I don’t attend the same college as him, but I did attend the same high school as Jack DeSena, who played Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender (the original Nickelodeon cartoon, not that movie bastardization). He was a senior when I was a freshmen, and as far as I could tell from the few times we crossed paths, he was a good kid. He was really involved in our school’s Comedy Sportz (intentionally spelled that way) Club and never acted like he was too important. I don’t think his teachers gave him any special treatments either, including the drama teacher, otherwise he would’ve been in every high school drama production during my freshman year, but he wasn’t.</p>
<p>‘Celebrities’ are human. So they have all the same personality traits as every other human- kindness, humility, friendliness, anger, shame, self-importance, crushing insecurity. </p>
<p>A ‘reliable source’- you wouldn’t be fishing for help with an essay, would you?</p>
<p>I don’t know from experience but I’ve heard rumors that they breathe in class</p>
<p>@highland_poppy: lol? I’m not that kind of student. I work my ass for what I’ve earned. Don’t you see Harvard is my dream school? I’ve been working very hard for Harvard over the last 5 years of my life (since middle school). Not that I could get in, but whatever. Yesterday, I happened to come across reading about a celebrity that went to college then all those interesting questions popped up in my heads. Since college confidential is the most popular forum about college life, I figured I could ask to see if someone is lucky enough to have those experiences in real life. And about the “reliable source”, what I meant was if nobody here has real experience with any celebrity and if someone happened to come across a news article or something then they can show it to me. Why needs to be reliable? I don’t want some made-up experiences simply because I care about the truth. And plus an essay about celebrities CAN NOT be so specific about their lives in colleges only. That would be dumb. If I had to write an essay about celebrities, there are way easier things can be written about them. Celebrities’ college lives are probably the least important aspects with any celebrities’ lives and have the fewest news covering. Not many magazines or news would interest in their college live stories, would they? That kind of topic doesn’t sell. What sell are their sex stories, looking, success in whatever they were doing to make them big celebrities. I’m not stupid to choose the hardest aspect of celebrities to write about them. You were hinting me as a kind of student (who earn things without working for it) I despise the most. Those kind of student would never have a chance at getting into Harvard unless they are genius. That was a very serious insult to me.</p>
<p>@Waynelo4: you know, you don’t have to answer my question if you don’t want to. It’s better not to answer anything at all than to give an answer as a joke unless you’re doing it with your friend and I’m not your friend nor do I even know you.</p>
<p>Calm down, Harvarddreamer20.
It’s the internet, this is a website, we don’t know who you are, you don’t know who we are, these are not personal attacks.</p>
<p>Speaking of Harvard - at the Harvard/Brown football game in 2009, the Harvard students were so obnoxious to Emma Watson that she had to leave the game in the first half. Literally a non stop stream of students coming across the stadium to approach her.</p>
<p>Source: my own two eyes sitting in the section next to her.</p>
<p>None of the answers here other than sopranokitty’s has related to the original topic in a meaningful way.</p>
<p>Two smaller-scale celebrities went to my high school while I was there. One, a girl in the grade below me, is a fashion designer and blogger who appeared on the Colbert Report once. The other is one of the top theatre actors of his age group in the country. Generally speaking, they didn’t get any preferential treatment by their teachers, nor did they attract a huge amount of gushing. It was known who they were, and that was that.</p>
<p>@emberjed Thanks for the attempt to answer my question. Just to be clear, are you saying celebrities are treated just like everyone else at school? I would imagine they get special treatment from students, teachers, parents… or at least special attention of some kind compare to other “normal” kids. That’s what I usually see on movies anyway. And again, I do know movies often of time are invention to attract viewers for big buck; that’s what the main goal of the movie maker anyway. That’s why I was asking for real experiences in the first place. According to the answers so far, looking like it was really just a movie invention. Nothing special is going on with celebrities at school.</p>
<p>Celebrities get the same treatment from professors and staff alike… Generally it’s the students that treat them like celebrities. I had class with an actor, I forgot his name but he was in a really big movie, and students would take a picture with him and maybe ask him questions and whatnot. Teachers don’t really care. I also have a really famous YouTube star (and I know you said this doesn’t count, but this guy is probably one of the biggest YT stars) classmate and people really just take pics all the time and ask questions.</p>
<p>The U.S. Poet Laureate, the Dalai Lama, and Jimmy Carter are all professors here. There’s a lot of hype to begin with, but people tend to start to get over it.</p>
<p>In terms of people I know well, most people aren’t celebrities in their own right, but children of prominent politicians and wealthy business owners. I’m friends with the grandson of the President of a major country. People in that country know who he is, but it’s not a big deal otherwise.</p>