Celeb Graduates - The Daily Beast
As my friends from college struggle with their current employment or finding a job, I thought this slide show was interesting. Many of these celebrities dropped out of college; others studied exactly what you would expect. The CEO of eBay studied economics. The creators of Google studied computer science and math at the University of Maryland. It seems those people followed their career paths from college to their heights.
Some people on this list were really surprising. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's Chief of Staff, studied dance at Sarah Lawrence before getting a masters at Northwestern in speech and communication. Natalie Portman took a break from acting to get a degree in research psychology at Harvard. James Franco studied furiously to get a degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing at UCLA. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, set out to study physics and switched to computer science when quantum mechanics stumped him. Kate Beckinsdale was a withdrawn wall-flower at Oxford studying French and Russian before she dropped out to pursue acting.
I found another list of celebrity college majors that also proved interesting. Will Ferrell studied sports broadcasting. Maggie Gyllenhaal was an Eastern Religions student.
More still from another list: Jon Stewart was a psychology major at William and Mary. Fashion designer Vera Wang left her ice skating career at 20 and studied art history at Sarah Lawrence. And singer John Legend was an English major in college before pursuing music.
So don't despair, liberal and fine arts majors. There is always a career for you, even if it is not exactly what you studied.
And yet, I can't seem to convince anyone that I can work outside of advertising despite the fact that I only spent 6 months out of my 3 post college years working in the industry. It's too bad I'm only mediocre at acting as that seems to be what so many are doing with their English degrees. Did you know that Anne Hathaway wrote her thesis on Jane Austen?
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