Emma Watson Drops Out of Brown

She's quitting, for now, to focus on film
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 8, 2011 11:34 AM CST
Emma Watson, College Dropout? 'Harry Potter' Star Taking Break From Brown University
Emma Watson arrives for the BAFTA Film Awards 2011, at The Royal Opera House in London, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011.   (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Every so often, a child star decides to take a break from acting and head to college—then reality sets in, and Emma Watson is the latest casualty. Though she loves Brown and also loves “studying pretty much more than anything,” she’s “decided to take a bit of time off,” she writes on her website. She’ll finish her work on Harry Potter and “focus on my other professional and acting projects,” but, she assures us, she “will still be working towards my degree … it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought.” At least she’ll always have the memories: Click to relive the awful first days, the Harvard students stalking her, the annoying dad who posted her photo on Twitter… (More Emma Watson stories.)

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