<p>“I have to agree with those who miss the connection of college with creative writing success. That seems to be portrayed more in movies than in real life.”</p>
<p>I recalled this thread a while ago, when I came across the following. This case was indeed portrayed in the movies:
The germ of the creation of Good Will Hunting</p>
<p>"Matt Damon: I was in my fifth year at Harvard, and I had a few electives left. There was this playwriting class and the culmination of it was to write a one-act play, and I just started writing a movie. So I handed the professor at the end of the semester a 40-some-odd-page document, and said, “Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.” "
<a href=“http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2013/01/good-will-hunting-oral-history/”>http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2013/01/good-will-hunting-oral-history/</a></p>