2008 Woodie Awards
Juicy
These Celebrities Weren't Tied Down By Their Majors
Sara Grant
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Focus
It is now less than two weeks until graduation and as I await the go-ahead from my internship, I sit around stressing about a career and picture myself decorating my cardboard box with pictures of my favorite celebrities to make it feel like home.
I'm sure I'm not the only senior who is worried about not finding a job or having to live at home, but then I remind myself of all the options that are out there.
There is a long list of Hollywood favorites that, before they graced silver screens and small screens, graduated from college with a degree in anything but acting, singing and dodging paparazzi.
Just because you study one thing doesn't mean you're tied down to it - the best option is to do what you love, as demonstrated by this long list of celebrities that ditched their degrees.
Ashley Judd, a two-time Golden Globe nominee best known for hits like "Double Jeopardy" and "Kiss The Girls," graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990 with a degree in French.
Judd was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and minored in anthropology, art history, theatre and women's studies and spent a semester studying in France.
Speaking of dark-haired, intelligent actresses, "The Wonder Years" star Danika McKellar is making a name for herself, not for a revival of Winnie Cooper after 20 years, but for trying to make math cool.
McKellar graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1998 with a degree in math.
"I was going to be a film major but then took a calculus class, finished the top of my class, and was hooked," she told U.S. News and World Report in 2006. "For a while I thought about doing a double major but then realized that I could always go back and study filmmaking, and that now was the time to really focus and experience mathematics."
She is now making bank off of her education with a best selling book, "Math Doesn't Suck."
Rounding out the list of degree-holding actresses is Julia Stiles, who graduated from Columbia University in 2005 with an English degree, and Brooke Shields, who graduated from Princeton in 1987 with a bachelor's in French literature.
I'm sure I'm not the only senior who is worried about not finding a job or having to live at home, but then I remind myself of all the options that are out there.
There is a long list of Hollywood favorites that, before they graced silver screens and small screens, graduated from college with a degree in anything but acting, singing and dodging paparazzi.
Just because you study one thing doesn't mean you're tied down to it - the best option is to do what you love, as demonstrated by this long list of celebrities that ditched their degrees.
Ashley Judd, a two-time Golden Globe nominee best known for hits like "Double Jeopardy" and "Kiss The Girls," graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990 with a degree in French.
Judd was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and minored in anthropology, art history, theatre and women's studies and spent a semester studying in France.
Speaking of dark-haired, intelligent actresses, "The Wonder Years" star Danika McKellar is making a name for herself, not for a revival of Winnie Cooper after 20 years, but for trying to make math cool.
McKellar graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1998 with a degree in math.
"I was going to be a film major but then took a calculus class, finished the top of my class, and was hooked," she told U.S. News and World Report in 2006. "For a while I thought about doing a double major but then realized that I could always go back and study filmmaking, and that now was the time to really focus and experience mathematics."
She is now making bank off of her education with a best selling book, "Math Doesn't Suck."
Rounding out the list of degree-holding actresses is Julia Stiles, who graduated from Columbia University in 2005 with an English degree, and Brooke Shields, who graduated from Princeton in 1987 with a bachelor's in French literature.
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