Renaissance Man

"James Franco likes going to school. In fact, he still is, studying for his doctorate in English at Yale University, while fitting in movie and television appearances on the side.

He enrolled at UCLA as a freshman the same year he graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996, but that didn’t last long, as he decided to give acting a chance.

That gambit worked exceedingly well, but Franco still wanted an education. He returned to UCLA in the fall of 2006, at age 28, cramming as many courses as he could into each quarter. His course load ranged from 20 to 62 credits per quarter (anyone wanting to do more than 19 a quarter needs special permission), all the while maintaining a grade point average of above 3.5.

He was awarded with a bachelor’s degree in English, with a creative writing concentration in June 2008, at which point he headed for New York and enrolled in not one or two schools but three: Columbia University’s M.F.A. writing program; Brooklyn College for creative writing; and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for directing.

He earned a masters degree from Columbia and then moved on to Yale, where he is now studying for a doctorate in English."

-Excerpt taken form The Answer Sheet.

That, in between undertaking numerous roles in movies and other art-related personal projects. Franco, dude, how'd you do it? You make the rest of us average people feel like slackers.

His brother said while staying in his apartment for a period of time, he had taken over James' bedroom as he said James never liked to go into his bedroom to sleep, preferring to doze off amidst working on his latest project or studying. James said going to the bedroom to sleep is like 'surrendering'.

So next time we found ourselves on the verge of blaming the perpetually guilty enemy of ours, 'time', stop and think again.