Wanna Graduate College in One Year?

April 25, 2007 3:30 pm     Posted in News  Candy -- NYU g+ page

Smart GirlUSAToday reports that University of Michigan student, Nicole Matisse, will graduate college this summer. Oooooh, no big deal, right? So are thousands upon thousands of other college students, right?


By Candy

Right. But, 19-year-old Nicole Matisse has only been there for one year. ONE year, people!

The article states, “As a student at Lahser High School, Matisse had exhausted the curriculum by her junior year. Between the exams she passed on eight advanced placement courses and the eight classes she took at Oakland Community College, she had amassed enough credits to enter the university last fall as a junior.”

This girl is one determined little cookie. Once she got to the university, she took 27 credits in one semester, and said she was so “bored” that she could have easily taken on more credits, because she “craved” them.

She must really know how to party. NOT.

Good for her, but in my opinion, this all sounds pretty lame to me. What’s the rush?? I mean, college is supposed to be the time you let loose, skip class, stay out late, and get crazy! She’s peacin’ out before she even turns 21! This girl is gonna miss out on her rite of passage: the chance to legally step through the doors of her favorite bar (if she even has one). She may be book smart and be successfully carrying out her “career goals,” but….what an idiot!

I would NEVER voluntarily shave down my four years of college to two tiny, little, itty-bitty semesters, and if I had it my way – meaning, if my parents would have paid for it – I would have stretched out my college experience for at least another year before venturing out into the real world.

After Nicole tears the roof off of graduation, she’s off to law school at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she will undoubtedly finish in three weeks, become a lawyer in two, and one year from now, she will realize how much wicked partying and amazing times she missed out on, only to return back to college and do it all over again, the right way.

There is still hope, Nicole. There is still hope.

9 Comments on "Wanna Graduate College in One Year?"

  1. Scott says:
    Wed, 25th Apr 200711:35 am 

    This is crazy!

  2. Mark says:
    Thu, 26th Apr 200712:10 pm 

    I actually know Nicole, and she is not only a really really nice person but also VERY pretty and completely normal (except for being smarter than the rest of us)…kudos to her, she is SO modest and deserves all the attention she is getting!

  3. Davy says:
    Tue, 1st May 20077:55 am 

    I don't get your conformist attitude–you think that college means the same to everyone? Not everybody that you go to college to "let loose, skip class, stay out late, and get crazy!" In fact, I think that's pretty lame. And do you think she doesn't get to go to a bar because she won't be in college when she turns 21??? Wow. We have a real problem that people can't be happy for others, simply because they have different values and priorities! LAME, Amy!

  4. Ali Bouzar says:
    Fri, 10th Aug 200711:03 am 

    Hello

    every body

    I need a girlfriend

  5. Katherine Matisse says:
    Mon, 19th Oct 20099:21 am 

    That's my sister. And she has a life, thanks.

  6. JoJo Jenkins says:
    Thu, 29th Apr 20109:29 pm 

    If she's so smart, why is she going to a shitty law school?

  7. kathryn says:
    Fri, 30th Apr 20101:49 am 

    JoJo…maybe she wants to save money? Not everyone can afford to go to places that cost an arm and a leg.

  8. E.Kira says:
    Wed, 23rd Mar 20111:32 am 

    What is wrong with you. Nicole is clearly talented and smart. I graduated highschool two months after turning 15. I worked for a little while to save up for university and am currently16 years old and will be graduating university soon as well. University is not about doing stupid things, not to everyone. Certainly not to her, nor I. I've honestly put up with so much hatred, jealousy, insults, harasment, and bullying from both the school staff (teachers, principles, councellors, etc) and students. Making fun of someone because they can do something you could only dream of is not only pathetic and wrong but it shows the type of person you really are. Stop with the hate, jealousy, and insults. While you are wasting time in class, people like Nicole and I are getting ahead and making something of ourselves, and our lives. Ignorance is not bliss, it is simply ignorance.

  9. Kevin Guo says:
    Sat, 31st Dec 20113:28 am 

    I wanted to be in your same boat ever since I was in middle school, I was very stubborn and wanted to graduate and get ahead. but backlash from parents and teachers and other students, tried and did make me see this as an impossible goal. Eventhough, I am a hardworker, I was not as tough as you or nicole, and now that I am an old and tired 18 years old I am still in the first year of college. The point is. Don't let anyone ever tell you you're not good enough, because guess what? that's what happened to me. I gave up hope, and now those students who were laughing at me because I was ahead, are now laughing at me because I'm a failure. My parents always point out my obvious failure to me, and the teachers at my old high school, point to me as "that" student. I am a laughingstock because I had a goal that was different, and yes I did want to bask in that glow of superiority, but then again who doesn't. Anyways, keep up the good work while you're ahead because if you believe you can't do it for even a second if you let anyone's harsh words get to you, and good luck to you. I pray you don't end up like me.

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